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Author | : Peter Galloway |
Publisher | : Spink Books |
Total Pages | : 1028 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781907427763 |
The Royal Victorian Order is one of the less wellknown components of the United Kingdom honours system. From its creation in 1896 it has been conferred specifically for service to the Sovereign and to other members of the Royal Family, and entirely at the discretion of the reigning monarch.
Author | : Anne M. Lyden |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1606061550 |
In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marked the beginnings of a relationship that continued throughout the nineteenth century and helped construct the image of an entire age. A Royal Passion explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria’s embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens. Together with Prince Albert, her beloved husband, the Queen amassed one of the earliest collections of photographs, including works by renowned photographers such as Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Victoria was also the first British monarch to have her life recorded by the camera: images of her as wife, mother, widow, and empress proliferated around the world at a time when the British Empire spanned the globe. The featured essays consider Victoria’s role in shaping the history of photography as well as photography’s role in shaping the image of the Queen. Including more than 150 color images—several rarely seen before—drawn from the Royal Collection and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 4 to June 20, 2014.
Author | : Kate Hubbard |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062269933 |
During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician. Drawing on their letters and diaries—many hitherto unpublished—Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court, with all its frustrations and absurdities, as well as the Queen herself, sitting squarely at its center. Seen through the eyes of her household as she traveled among Windsor, Osborne, and Balmoral, and to the French and Belgian courts, Victoria emerges as more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish, more comical, than the austere figure depicted in her famous portraits. We see a woman who was prone to fits of giggles, who wept easily and often, who gobbled her food and shrank from confrontation but insisted on controlling the lives of those around her. We witness her extraordinary and debilitating grief at the death of her husband, Albert, and her sympathy toward the tragedies that afflicted her household. Witty, astute, and moving, Serving Victoria is a perfect foil to the pomp and circumstance—and prudery and conservatism—associated with Victoria's reign, and gives an unforgettable glimpse of what it meant to serve the Queen.
Author | : Greg King |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2007-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 047004439X |
Features the court of Britain's longest-reigning monarch Royalty and the Victorian era, with coverage of the people, pageantry, and power of Queen Victoria's court. Beginning with the Queen's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, this book describes her long reign. It paints a portrait of a unique ruler at the height of empire.
Author | : D M Potts |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752471961 |
Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a haemophiliac man. However the haemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her only son's haemophilia led to the entry of Rasputin into the royal household, contributing directly to the Russian revolution.
Author | : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300079975 |
Published to accompany the exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and toured with the assistance of the Denver Art Museum from May 1999 to September 2000 to Denver, Seattle, West Palm Beach, New York City, and Cincinnati.
Author | : John Plunkett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780199253920 |
Queen Victoria's reign coincided with the arrival of the mass media.
Author | : Daisy Goodwin |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1250175313 |
The official companion to the second season of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria by award-winning creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin. Airing in the Downton Abbey slot on PBS/Masterpiece last January, Victoria captivated millions of viewers, eclipsing Downton's first-season viewership and leaving its audience eager for the series's next season, which will focus on Victoria and Albert's passionate and tempestuous marriage. This official tie-in to the show, by creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show, featuring never-before-seen interviews, photos, diary entries, profiles on all major characters, and sumptuous detail on the costumes and props that bring Victoria and Albert's world to vivid life. Victoria and Albert follows this extraordinary relationship between two very different people—she impulsive, emotional, capricious; he cautious, self-controlled, and logical—whose devotion to each other was unparalleled in royal history. Taking fans deeper into the world of Victoria than ever before, Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair is the ultimate gift for devotees of the show.
Author | : Kristina Harris |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0486320170 |
Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, maternity wear, children's clothing, and other apparel.
Author | : Gabriel Tschumi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Cooking, British |
ISBN | : 9780718304331 |