Horticultural Artifacts Collection / Gift of Frances Jones Poetker Other royals also partook in the fashion. At the March 1863 wedding of Princess Alexandra of Denmark and Queen Victoria’s son ...

As a celebration of British heritage, the Local History Room at May Memorial Library in Burlington will have a display during the month of July of materials on researching British ancestry and of ...

Five flint flakes were also found. There are also artifacts that aren't Indigenous, including an 1859 Queen Victoria coin, a 16th Regiment military button made in 1860 and a carved-bone ...

The Duke of Kent, who was father to Queen Victoria, died in 1820, leaving the matter of the young monarch’s education to her mother and the opportunistic Conroy. While it remains unclear who was ...

The final example, made in Victoria’s first year as Queen, depicts a seated woman with a crown and sash, inscribed “by Her Majesty.” The collection is thought to have been assembled by ...

Queen Victoria was all of 19 at her coronation ... which have been housed in the Tower of London.” The artifacts include the spurs and sword, “links to the monarchy’s knightly past.

It had been, after all, a marriage of passion and deep affection. Queen Victoria wrote the experience of loss sent her into “paroxysms of despair,” landing her with a sadness that never truly ...