... Parties mark Elsie’s century A SCARBOROUGH woman born in the year Queen Victoria died celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday. Elsie Whitfield marked her big day with three parties, including two at Ravensworth Lodge in Belgrave Crescent where she has ...

... ‘Royals’ to celebrate at Castle Howard QUEEN Victoria and Prince Albert will be visiting Castle Howard as part of the stately home’s plans to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Actors playing the monarch and her husband will join characters from Castle ...

... of the magnificent state rooms, the Ballroom. The Palace Ballroom has been used for grand occasions since the reign of Queen Victoria. Architect dies SIR Leslie Martin, a former professor of architecture at Cambridge University perhaps best known for his ...

... Ford, right, actor, 58; lan Hislop, Private Eye editor, 40; Chris Serle, TV presenter, 57 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1837 Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace, the first monarch to live there. 1930 The first World Cup football tournament kicked off ...

... opened to the public on August 14 1900 by the Lord Mayor and his wife, with a gala and fireworks at the Spa. The statue of Queen Victoria was unveiled in 1903, two years after her death by her youngest daughter Princess Beatrice. The statue is a copy of one ...

... Salt EACH day Mr Quiz poses three general knowledge questions. The answers are published tomorrow. 1 Which grandson of Queen Victoria was suspected of the Jack the Ripper murders? 2 In which decade of the 19th century did the Alamo fall to the Mexican ...

... superstition included. It features Lucinda Lambton and is broadcast from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria and the 150th anniversary of the Great Exhibition, it showcases Victorian ...

... IN HISTORY 1899 Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum. 1900 Mafeking was relieved by British Forces in the Boer War after 217 days. 1960 The Kariba Dam on the Zambesi River was opened by the Queen Mother. AND FINALLY ...

... incredi ble tests of strength. VICTORIA & ALBERT. First of a two-part drama charting the passionate romance between Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who laid the foundations of today’s royal family. With Victoria Hamilton and Jonathan Firth ...

... enjoy views which people have been able to see for decades,” he said. Scarborough Council considered moving the statue of Queen Victoria in the Town Hall gardens. It was felt the proposal was too expensive and ...

... friends at her home in Beacon Road, Seamer. Born in 1900 at Sherburn-in- Elmet, near Tadcaster, when the Boer War was on and Queen Victoria was on the throne, Mrs Pettler was the eldest of five children. She joined the war effort at the age of 17 when she was ...

... acclaim on Broadway for Amy’s View, fame as M in James Bond, an Oscar as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare In Love, more acclaim as Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, enjoved Tea With Mussolini and all that on top of a career as a Shakespearean actress, with a good line ...