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... Weatherfield? (T) (S) 4636 9.00 Lads’ Army. See Today'’s choice. (T) 3680 10.00 The Queen’s Jubilee: Live from the Palace Fireworks. Trevor McDonald presents live coverage as the Queen lights the Jubilee Beacon, part of a trail of fire from Land’s End to John ...
... house burnt down in 1873, taking with it the original of Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen, which hung in the drawing room. Queen Victoria, who loved the place, was mightily disgruntled, since the next time she came to stay in the area she had to spend the ...
... from the walls and stop you in your tracks. Compare Hayter’s portrait of Queen Victoria in 1840 which hangs in the Silk Tapestry Room to Lucien Freud's crude interpretation of our Queen today in her Jubilee year. Future generations may wonder what demons ...
... enormity of the royal, and personal, event, the happy couple moved onto Balmoral castle in Scotland, the Queen’s favourite residence. Bought for Queen Victoria in 1852 by Prince Albert, the castle was already an interwoven part of one of the greatest romances ...
... 1887, with the great service of thanksgiving for Queen Vietoria’s 50th jubilee imminent, the Metropolitan Police disclosed that a team of dynamiters was aiming to attack Westminster Abbey, with the Queen Empress, her family and most of the Cabinet inside ...
... weekend that Queen Victoria may have been the product of a liasion between her mother the Duchess of Kent and her father’'s equerry John Conroy. Now that’s one for the books. If this is the case, it means our m sent Queen, who is descended Victoria (she would ...
... wedding on November 20, 1947. It was the first significant wedding since 1840, when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had married, and the reunion of the many Kings and Queens who had attended the coronation of King George VI 10 years earlier. It was also ...
... d command structure, the Constabulary Police (later retitied the Constabulary of Ireland and subsequently honoured by Queen Victoria with the Royal title) preceded the Metropolitan Police (formed in 1829) who wrongly claim to be the original Bobbies. ...
... at the scene of the shoot- men had driven in separate He was taken to the Roying in Franklin Street. cars to Upper Queen Street al Victoria Hospital where he Army bomb experts then where the tax offices are lo- Turn to Page 2 ...
... considerable consolation and was seized on by the media to be fed via war cogfispondents back home to a grateful public. Queen Victoria was so moved by the gallantry of her Irish soldiers that she authorised the raising of a new regiment of foot guards - ...
... much better Monarch than Queen Victoria who spent a large part of her time on the Throne grieving for her late husband, begging for tax- payersmoneytop?bfhomesforhernu- merous children, and treating her subjects as The Queen never allowed herself a f ...
... diptheria until she succumbed herself. As Alexandra and her sisters got older Queen Victoria assumed the mantle of matchmaker. But Alexandra wanted nothing to do with the men the Queen chose for her. She had already met her cousin Nicholas, heir to the Tsar ...