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5 days ago · In this well-known picture Queen Victoria is skilfully depicted as both sovereign and mother. The scene is one of domestic harmony, peace and happiness, albeit with many allusions to royal status: grandeur in the form of jewels and furniture, tradition (through the Order of the Garter) and the continuation of the royal lineage.
1 day ago · Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images . Ronan McGreevy. Fri Jun 28 2024 - 21:45. In 1900, a year before she died, Queen Victoria visited Dublin, provoking a ferocious debate within Ireland.
3 days ago · There are many paintings that represent the British Empire, but The Secret of England’s Greatness (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker is one of the most powerful. It depicts Queen Victoria presenting a bible to a kneeling African chief in the Audience Chamber at Windsor.
2 days ago · Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
3 days ago · Queen Victoria ruled over a vast British Empire at a time when most women were confined to strict feminine roles — and while she carefully cultivated a traditional image, she was also a defiant, astute, and politically-minded woman far ahead of her time.
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