Queen Victoria

The Story Of Queen Victoria Square In 15 Pictures

... including the tower of the Prudential office building which was subsequently demolished on safety grounds. 7) The cleared site of the old Prudential building - and a large billboard advert for Domestos - can be seen in this aerial post-war view. 8) Fast forward to 1962 with cars and buses now centre stage. 9) It's 1970, we're in colour and two grassed flower beds have been installed either side of the Queen Victoria statue. Read more: 50 reasons why Hull is the UK City of Culture. 10) Roger Millward shows off the Challenge Cup to ecstatic Hull KR fans after the club's never-to-be-forgotten Wembley win over arch rivals Hull FC in 1980. 11) Hull City's first-ever promotion to the Premier League brings the fans out to celebrate in 2008. Check out the big screen too. 12) A blanket of snow covers the square in 2010. 13) Boxer Luke Campbell on the City Hall balcony after winning gold in the 2012 London Olympics. 14) Orange barriers were the order of the day for most of last year. The almost became part of the family. 15) From Made in ...

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Queen Victoria, Her Ghillie And Some Very Saucy Banter

... husband Prince Albert. Queen Victoria in pictures. Thu, October 13, 2016. Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) was Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Play slideshow. 1 of 14. These gave further support to the theory that the Queen and her ghillie were more than just friends, as they included a leather case holding photographs of Brown, a lock of his hair to be placed in her hand and his handkerchief which was to be laid on top of her. Again Baird refused to comply on the grounds that this material came not from the archives but from her independent research. The fact that an administrator of the Royal Archives felt entitled to make such requests in the first place raises concerns about censorship of records that many feel should be in the public domain. After all the personal history of the Royal Family is inextricably bound up with the history of the country. Critics say it cannot be right that they should seek to conceal the truth about the love life of a long-dead monarch in order to maintain the dignity of their office. ...

A Queen's Series And Legacy

... early days when photography was much more complicated (and toxic). Given that they were trendsetters, Victoria and Albert’s interest in photography helped to popularize this new medium. They also became early collectors and patrons of the medium and of numerous photographers. When she needed to know what was going on in the Crimean War, she sent correspondents there to send back pictures. They became the first war photographers. When she died, Queen Victoria left a collection of over 20,000 photographs, most of them of family, and the archive is housed at Windsor Castle. Because they are works on paper they are rarely exhibited, but they have now been digitized and posted on Windsor Castle’s website for all us hoi poloi to see. And if you are into photography and Queen Victoria, you will love this book, A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography , published to coincide with the exhibit at the Getty ...

Daisy Goodwin's Novel About Young Queen Victoria

... Victoria the queen is not that she came to the throne so young, but that her mother - knowing her daughter was next in line to inherit - kept her so sheltered she never even had playmates. Ostensibly, her reason was her child's well-being; she wanted to prevent her from contracting any life-threatening illness. (Her father, who would have inherited the throne, was dead and of his brothers she was the only legitimate surviving child. So you'd think awareness of what lay ahead would have prompted a mother to prepare her child for the enormous responsibilities that awaited her. At 18, Victoria's cognitive and emotional development appears to have been closer to that of a 14-year-old. Groomed to be queen in all the particulars of behavioral conduct, nuanced manners and posture, the astonishingly child-like Victoria about to be crowned was a young woman who had spent ...

A Politically Incorrect Jamaican Footnote

... General of the armed forces in British North America during the War of 1812. Barely a month later, however, the spirit of the Holiday season turned to grief when the Duke of Kent, the father of the infant princess, succumbed to a cold and died of pneumonia on January 23 rd, 1820. *Now the Royal Glen Hotel. Hidden in plain sight at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland is the singular target of the most breathtaking art heist in history. But unlike the much-touted 1990 Gardner Museum robbery in Boston, this one takes the cake not only for the sophistry of its conception but the brazen presumption of the perpetrators that their actions were for the well-being of the international black community. It will undoubtedly come as something of a shock to most that the sitters in this picture of such frightfully aristocratic elegance were the grandchildren of Mary Augier, a black Jamaican slave woman. What has stunned the academic ...

John Bruton Objected To Sending Queen Victoria Statue To Sydney

... of the permanent bond and friendship between our two countries,” he said, adding a guarantee that the statue would be maintained in a fit and proper manner. However, the director of the National Museum of Ireland John Teahan wrote a memo objecting to the plan to send the statue to Australia. ‘Part of our heritage’. He argued that it was the work of an Irish artist and, historically, was part of the Irish scene. “If we are deemed not to be mature enough to distinguish between the art-historical merits of Hughes’ Victoria, for instance, and a symbol of authority, which does not or at least should not apply, I advise that such a figure be retained and protected until we have grown up sufficiently to look that Queen, long dead, straight in the eye,” wrote Teahan. Mr Bruton took the same view when the matter came before the cabinet on September 11 th. “The Minister for Finance ...

Why ‘downton Abbey’ Fans Will Love ‘victoria

... the emergence of the young queen from an inexperienced teenager, and onward to betrothal and marriage,” costume designer Rosalind Ebbutt told Town & Country. “The changing fashion of the time also helped reflect this, as the wide puffed sleeves of the late 1830 s gave way to tighter sleeves, lower waistlines, and more bell-shaped skirts.”. “Victoria” features costumes fit for a queen, and the costume team did plenty of research to make sure the outfits were historically accurate. Photo: ITV Plc. Opinionated Women — Lady Mary would have liked Victoria. As soon as the teenager comes into power, she embraces her role. She is headstrong and ready to fight all the adults who want to tell her what to do. Once she has a crown, Queen Victoria does not want to listen to people like her mother. Photo: ITV Plc. Upstairs/Downstairs Conflicts — The drama in “Downton ...

Irish Minister Opposed Queen Victoria Statue Being Sent To Sydney, Cabinet Papers Reveal

... John Hughes. “I advise that such a figure be retained and protected until we have grown up sufficiently to look that Queen, long dead, straight in the eye,” Teahan said. Bruton took the same view when the matter came before cabinet. “The minister for finance strongly objects to the removal of the Queen Victoria statue from Ireland. The monument is representative of one of the many traditions of Irish history. It is part of our heritage in no less a way than Norman or Viking remains,” said a memo. “In the context of the Anglo Irish Agreement, in which reference has been made to the ‘two traditions’ , the minister for finance sees great danger in publicly jettisoning a figure of the second tradition. The repercussions for the government from such an act would far outweigh any minor adverse publicity that might arise if the Australian request were refused.”. Despite the objections, the cabinet agreed to send the statue to Australia “on loan until recalled”. After Irish independence from the UK in 1922, ...

In Honor Of 'victoria' In The U.s., 3 More Depictions Of Queen Victoria To Watch

... the queen's life, from its opening scenes of Albert visiting Victoria before she was queen to Albert's death decades later. The miniseries stars Victoria Hamilton, who of late has played another queen (the Queen Mother, to be precise) on Netflix's The Crown, and Jonathan Firth as Albert. The A&E-BBC series can't stand up to the others in production quality, but I'd honestly tell you it's my first thought when it comes to Victoria-Albert romances. Mrs. Brown. On the other end of the spectrum from The Young Victoria is 1997's Mrs. Brown, which is set beyond the death of Albert. Judi Dench was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Victoria in her later years, a reclusive widow drawn out by Scottish servant John Brown (Billy Connolly). Whether or not Victoria and Brown had a romantic relationship is a point of debate and intrigue (she was, after all, buried with a lock of his hair and his mother's ring), and the movie is also less than explicit about the nature of their relationship, but it's incredibly endearing either way. [Last modified: Monday, January 9, ...

A Look Into The Cultural Depictions Of Queen Victoria

... in the cinema. In addition to censoring topics like prostitution, premarital and extramarital sex, and seduction, there also could be no reference or depictions of the Royal Family on stage or in film. The same rule applied to Queen Victoria, until the Lord Chamberlain agreed to lift the ban on the 100 th anniversary of her accession. Because of this rule, Laurence Housman’s play Victoria Regina, written in 1934, wasn’t allowed to make its commercial British premiere until after June 20, 1937. Since then, there have been dozens of cultural depictions of Queen Victoria across stage, film, and TV. Here’s a look at three of them. Victoria Regina. Written in 1934, Laurence Houseman's drama first played at the Gate Theatre Studio in London in 1935 starring Pamela Stanley—because of the ban, the play was not allowed to play on a British commercial stage. It instead opened on December ...