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Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III, hastily married a German widow, Marie Luise Victoire, Dowager Duchess of Leiningen. She had two children from her previous marriage, one of whom was Princess Feodore, who became Victoria’s much-loved half-sister. William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) abandoned his long-term mistress to marry Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest is an independent body, serviced by The Arts Council, which advises the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on whether a cultural object, intended for export, is of national importance under specified criteria. Rosie Dias, ‘Agents of Affect: Queen Victoria’s Indian Gifts’, in British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770–1940, ed. by Rosie Dias and Kate Smith (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018), pp. 167–92 (p. 176). For her marriage to Albert, Victoria chose a fashionable white satin court dress. As there were so many guests in the Chapel Royal, ladies had been requested not to add court trains to their dress to relieve the congestion. The bride’s procession entered to a fanfare of trumpets, with Lord Melbourne at its head. The Princess was supported by her uncle the Duke of Sussex in place of her late father. Founded in 1816 the Fitzwilliam Museum is the principal museum of the University of Cambridge and lead partner for the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) Major Partner Museum programme, funded by The Arts Council. The Fitzwilliam’s collections explore world history and art from antiquity to the present day. It houses over half a million objects from ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman artefacts, to medieval illuminated manuscripts, masterpiece paintings from the Renaissance to the 21st century, world class prints and drawings, and outstanding collections of coins, Asian arts, ceramics and other applied arts. The Fitzwilliam presents a wide ranging public programme of major exhibitions, events and education activities, and is an internationally recognised institute of learning, research and conservation.
Victoria's uncle, George IV was born in 1762, the eldest son of George III. He spent a long time as ‘king in waiting’, acting for nine years as Prince Regent. When he finally acceded to the throne in 1821, he had become spoiled, gluttonous, profligate, highly unpopular and ridiculed in the popular press. The synthesizing of the public and private, of personal grief and public authority, is also central to the global significance of Victoria’s photographs. The message they embodied of the universal experience of widowhood, and the importance of protecting and promoting the legacy of the dead, would usefully underpin monarchical ambition to consolidate social and political relations within the empire and beyond. Photographic images of the Queen were shared across the British Empire through the exchange and collecting of small-format photographs and through widespread reproduction in the illustrated press. A white marble bust portrait (h. 96 cm) of Queen Victoria, executed by Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) from 1887 to 1889. The original marble sculptures from which this Parian bust and its pair, a bust of Prince Albert (museum no. 7888-1862), were copied were made by the Italian sculptor Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867) and were shown at the Royal Academy in 1851. These Parian versions were shown by Minton at the London International Exhibition of 1862, at which an entire section was devoted to 'Parian and Ivory'. The pub is raided by Terry Bates ( Nicholas Bell) and his gang who are looking for Jase Dyer ( Stephen Lord); the interior is destroyed.Den Watts ( Leslie Grantham) is murdered by his second wife Chrissie Watts ( Tracy-Ann Oberman) with Pauline Fowler's ( Wendy Richard) dog-shaped doorstop; she buries his body under concrete in the cellar of the pub. Did you know that there are a number of Victorian coins that are still classed as legal tender? These include: Description:The royal children spent many happy times at Osborne and we can still see objects relating to their childhoods on the estate today. One of the more unusual ways that Queen Victoria kept souvenirs of her children’s childhood was by commissioning marble copies of their forearms and feet . This example is the forearm of her sixth child and fourth daughter, Princess Louise (1848–1939). By 1818/19, a succession crisis was looming. In 1817, George IV’s only daughter Princess Charlotte had died giving birth to a stillborn son, wiping out two generations of heirs to the throne in one tragic blow. This prompted a desperate ‘baby race’ among the King’s unmarried brothers to produce a legitimate heir. The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria was officially celebrated on 22 June 1897 to mark the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession on 20 June 1837. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch ever to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee.
The incorporation of death into family portraiture, as manifested by the regular inclusion of Theed’s bust of Prince Albert, introduced a visual composition which was echoed in many paintings throughout Victoria’s later reign. Arguably, one of the most successful paintings depicting the Queen in mourning was Albert Graefle’s portrait of her. 9 Graefle was a close associate of Franz Xaver Winterhalter, a painter especially favoured by the royal family. In this painting Victoria is shown in mourning dress. On the table next to her is a box of Foreign Office papers and a bust of Albert by Theed, implying Albert’s continued influence on Victoria’s political vision. When the Queen was sitting for this portrait, she wrote in her journal that Graefle was ‘such a clever painter & paints so fresh and cleanly. His likenesses are also very good.’ 10 This painting was clearly admired by Victoria, as a surviving negative in the Royal Collection shows it prominently on display in her private apartments. 11 Importantly, Graefle’s portrait marks a shift in representation. Victoria wears the clothing and Mary Stuart shaped widow’s cap associated with a young widow. However, she is no longer solely looking in devotion at Albert’s bust but looks ahead to the future, while still reinforcing the visual narrative of their inseparable union. It is significant that it was not completed until 1864, three years after Albert’s death, and that portrait commissions during the intervening years were abandoned. 12 This suggests the complexity of the challenge in reconstructing a new visual identity for the Queen which, while satisfying personal and family needs, could also serve a national imperative. The indexicality of the photography the Queen commissioned and its established place in the material culture of mourning gave the photographs an emotional force that proved hard for portrait painters to achieve. Graefle’s painting, which seeks to combine the iconography of state portraiture in its inclusion of the Queen’s ermine-trimmed robes arranged over the chair on which she sits, presents a less convincing message about either the Queen’s private or her public body. The Hereditary Princess and Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the Queen's granddaughter and grandson-in-law Count Gleichen (Viktor Ferdinand Franz Eugen Gustav Adolf Constantin Friedrich Prinz von Hohenlohe-Langenburg) was the son of a half-sister of Queen Victoria. He served in the Royal Navy, and was promoted Admiral in 1887. After losing all his fortune in a bank crash, he became a professional sculptor and was accorded a studio in St James's Palace. He had been a pupil of William Theed (1804-1891), one of the sculptors favoured by Queen Victoria. Gleichen exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy, and his daughter Fedora, Countess Gleichen, also became a sculptor.Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest-reigning British monarch on 23 September 1896, an event that she marked privately at Balmoral Castle. She wrote in her journal, "People wished to make all sorts of demonstrations, which I asked them not to do until I had completed the sixty years next June." The Diamond Jubilee was therefore an opportunity to celebrate Victoria's status as the longest-reigning monarch, in addition to marking 60 years on the throne. [1] On 20 June 1897, the sixtieth anniversary of her accession, Victoria wrote in her journal: [2]
Key events in The Queen Victoria [ edit ] The Queen Victoria's bust of Queen Victoria (pictured on display at the Elstree and Borehamwood Museum) was used from 1993 until 2010, and from 2012 onwards. 1980s Alamy Images, Letter of Sympathy from Queen Victoria, Read by Clergy to Widows, Hartley Colliery Disaster, 1862, K505CY < https://www.alamy.com> [accessed 28 November 2021]. On 24 May 1819,Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent was born. She acceded to the throne on 20 June1837andruled as Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of Indiauntil her death on 22 January 1901. A reign of 63 years, 7 months; until 2015, Victoria wasthe longest reigning British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II surpassed this reign on 10September 2015. London was the first city to open a steam-powered single line multi-station underground railway in 1863, designed by John Fowles. This remarkable depiction of the ageing monarch was created by master sculptor Alfred Gilbert, who transformed British sculpture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.By the late 1870s, most denominations of British coins carried versions of the obverse design featuring Queen Victoria created by William Wyon and first introduced in 1838, the year after she acceded to the throne at the age of 18. The queen, approaching her 60th birthday, no longer resembled her numismatic depiction; and in February 1879, the private secretary to the queen, Sir Henry Ponsonby, informed the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, [a] Charles Fremantle, that Joseph Edgar Boehm had been engaged to produce a medallic likeness of the queen that could be adapted for coinage purposes. Born in Austria, Boehm had trained as a medallist and had undertaken several sculptural commissions for the royal family. [1] Queen Victoria was married to Albert for nearly 21 years and was very much in love with him. She did much to please her husband, giving him the title ‘Prince Consort’ in 1857 and letting him take some responsibility in the running of the country. Victoria and Albert had nine children: This captivating likeness of Queen Victoria showcases the extraordinary skills of celebrated sculptor Alfred Gilbert. Dyer, G. P.; Gaspar, P. P. (1992). "Reform, the New Technology and Tower Hill". In Challis, C. E. (ed.). A New History of the Royal Mint. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp.398–606. ISBN 978-0-521-24026-0.
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