... central dish on a pedestal surrounded by models of Queen Victoria's favourite dogs. This table centre was designed by Prince Albert and made by Robert Garrard in 1842. Also of interest among the Queen's loans are a table originally commissioned by Napoleon ...

... joustings and junketings went on till June the twenty-fourth. queen victoria 'Just over 100 years ago, Queen Victoria with Prince Albert also paid a State visit to France. As on the present occasion Britain's monarch received a tumultuous welcome, though the ...

... etched by Prince Albert. It is dated 1842 and probably portrays their eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, who would have been about two years old The Princess Royal, aged nine months another picture which Queen Victoria drew and Prince Albert etched Royal ...

... long been an essential Christmas custom. However, it was not until the next reign with the arrival of Queen Victoria's Prince Albert, who also followed German Christmas customs, that the tree became a national institution. Painted by Pauline Baynes J J ...

... long was just coming to womanhood. She still went riding with dear Lord Melbourne and took his advice in everything; Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha had not yet appeared on the scene. Women's clothes had settled down to a new simplicity, one might ...

... this Highland castle and its countryside was one of the dominant emotions of the Queen's life. As the young wife, with Prince Albert beside her, she was enraptured with it. Every year, she wrote soon after first seeing it, my heart becomes more fixed ...

... Britain from Germany by William IVs wife. Queen Adelaide. They did not become a fashion until the reign of Queen Victoria. Prince Albert is generally credited with popularising them. The nineteenth century also saw the development of the Christmas pantomime ...

... The Gentleman's Magazine recorded that she left Buckingham Palace in state at twenty minutes before noon, accompanied by Prince Albert and their two eldest children, The Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and their suites ...

... d centre right. In the second row left is shown an anecdote con cerning Queen Victoria which started a fashion. After Prince Albert had admired a Scottish peasant girl in a red flannel petticoat walking across a field near Balmoral, the Queen ordered ...

... by all. TFOR TREE. The kind of Christmas Tree which we are used to came from Germany, round about the eighteen-forties. Prince Albert is usually given most of the credit, but it seems to have reached France about the same time without his aid. Some say ...

... Prince Consort and soon became an intrinsic part of the Royal household. Above is a charming study of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert together with their children come to see the tree, Traditional toys are the heritage of both rich and poor alike, and it ...

... September, and, of course, Cox's Orange Pippin. Good cookers that flourish in almost any garden are Lord Derby and Lane's Prince Albert. Of pears, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Conference, and Jargonelle are reliable varieties, and if I was limited to one ...