101 Amazing Facts about Queen Victoria by Jack Goldstein

Author:Jack Goldstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: victoria, victorians, queen, king, prince albert, royalty, royal, industrial, fact, learn, trivia, quiz, amazing, interesting, fascinating, incredible, horrible histories, osbourne, balmoral, buckingham, palace, castle, 1851, great exhibition, crystal palace
ISBN: 9781783338139
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Queen in 1861

Royal Residences

Victoria was the first monarch to live at Buckingham Palace in London, now the main residence of Queen Elizabeth II.

She couldn’t abide the smell of tobacco smoke, and had ‘no smoking’ signs placed in the majority of the rooms at the Palace.

Victoria spent much of her childhood at Kensington Palace, in an apartment which had been granted to her father, the Duke of Kent.

Kensington always had a place in Victoria’s heart, and three years before her death she initiated the restoration of the state apartments there; eventually these were opened up to the public.

A popular private residence of Queen Elizabeth II today is Balmoral in Scotland. The estate was purchased from Lord Aberdeen by Prince Albert in 1852 for £32,000. The Queen felt that the existing house was a little small for the royal family’s needs, and subsequently had a new castle constructed in place of the existing one.

Victoria and Albert wished for a summer retreat, and so between 1845 and 1851 had Osborne House built in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Osborne house was designed by Thomas Cubitt in conjunction with Albert himself; Cubitt had also built the main façade of Buckingham Palace.

The House was built in the style of the Italian Renaissance, and was luxuriously furnished. Ever the careful financial planner, Albert had in fact raised much of the money for the furnishings from the sale of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.

It was at Osborne House that Victoria died in 1901. After this it was deemed surplus to royal requirements, and was given to the state. Until 1921 it was used as a training college for the Royal Navy, and is today open to the general public.

For those who can afford it, Osborne’s cricket pavilion was turned into a holiday cottage in 2004, and it can be booked by anyone; occupants are even given permission to use the estate’s private beach, on which Victoria and Albert would have spent many a relaxing summer’s day.

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