Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

[Prinsara]

The Duke also had a French Roman Catholic mistress,Madame de Saint-Laurent,Baroness de Fortisson when he was stationed in Quebec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Saint-Laurent

They famously had no children, though. She came back to Europe with him, they parted sadly, and they probably would have stayed together if not for the death of his niece Charlotte... Although Charlotte's husband Leopold, who was a friend (although I guess not to Madame), had suggested that Edward marry his widowed sister Victoire, the Princess of Leiningen, even prior to that.

 

[Prinsara]

A brief video about Victoria and/on drugs. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/did-this-beloved-queen-of-britain-use-drugs/

The site is excellent for all kinds of history.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Charles Louis Mueller painted this beautiful painting of Queen Victoria in 1856.
However, The Queen is not wearing a tiara. She is wearing a bonnet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amber-tree/26178479136

 

[Prinsara]

Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canadians and the few people in Scotland who celebrate with us (assuming they don't do it on the 24th).

Thank you for having such a conveniently situated birthday that it's our oldest holiday, Ma'am.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

In Victoria A Life A. N. Wilson wrote:
The Queen's loathing of hot rooms, and her indifference to the cold, became unrestrained during her years of widowhood, and those who visited Balmoral in particular, were in danger of feeling cold.

 

[Prinsara]

In Victoria A Life A. N. Wilson wrote:
The Queen's loathing of hot rooms, and her indifference to the cold, became unrestrained during her years of widowhood, and those who visited Balmoral in particular, were in danger of feeling cold.

I think that must be one part "almost no one was as well-insulated as she was" and another part "Albert was frequently, miserably cold" to go along with Victoria's prolonged shock/spite/grief.

Perhaps after he died she simply was not prepared to allow or care about anyone else complaining.

 

[Blog Real]

Queen Victoria with her granddaughter, Empress Alexandra of Russia and her daughter, Grand Duchess Olga:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ynE1EVQHwd4/Vo_Fw6XtbiI/AAAAAAAAB4M/gw3_gzEamSg/s1600/BNMnk07.jpg

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Victoria reading at the bedside of an Old Cottager
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M130738

 

[Blog Real]

Ancestors of Queen Victoria:
https://c9.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gcb17766e/22599098_73eY3.jpeg

 

[Blog Real]

An image of Queen Victoria:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxkegsqAnM0PhUp39da3ADhvPuxllkbvmYPkPi4E9_hn4lNOprKJt8m4XJaScbBRxxUKqFpWvprjNSIvWGsUAk9XKFZ70YjppsZI4tUVC9OYwMNgGNyPNPt37mJcxNufKoktYtTlCkoLpMlQxK57_7O87gzqXBIZEXyp2uMCKVtHce3XmCVmBDNtXSDMn/s16000/432330240_454702873550395_2889407324768771554_n.jpg

 

[An Ard Ri]

Queen Victoria and her ladies in the Royal Box at St George's chapel Windsor during The Marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863.

The full painting

 

[duchessrachel]

I wasn't sure where to ask this question, but since Louis Mountbatten was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, this seemed like a good place. Could someone recommend a good and balanced biography on Louis Mountbatten? I checked out "Mountbatten" by Philip Ziegler from the library, but the more I read reviews on it, the more it seems to be skewed toward admiration of him. At the same time, I don't want to read a book about him that is totally negative. Is there a biography on him that is relatively balanced? Thank you.

 

[Alison H]

I thought the Ziegler biography was very good, but each to their own . There's the Andrew Lownie one, about both Earl and Countess Mountbatten.

 

[duchessrachel]

I thought the Ziegler biography was very good, but each to their own . There's the Andrew Lownie one, about both Earl and Countess Mountbatten.

Thank you so much! I will read those.

 

[An Ard Ri]

2 so called activists (or attention seekers) smeared a bust of Queen Victoria with jam and porridge have been convicted of malicious mischief.
The incident took place at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in March 2024.

Women convicted after smearing jam on Glasgow bust of Queen Victoria