by Julia Baird
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Illustration Credits
Frontispiece: Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Victoria (1842) (detail). Château de Versailles, France. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Part 1: Sir William Beechey, Victoria with Her Mother, Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1821). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Part 2: Sir David Wilkie, The First Council of Queen Victoria (1838). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Part 3: Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Time: Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–43). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Part 4: W. & D. Downey, Victoria (c. 1866). Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey. Photo: Rob Dickins Collection, Watts Gallery / Bridgeman Images.
Part 5: W. & D. Downey, Victoria (1893). Photo: Granger Collection/Alamy.
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Sir William Beechey, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1818). © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Richard Rothwell, Victoria, Duchess of Kent (c. 1832). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Stephan Poyntz Denning, Victoria (1823). Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Henry Tanworth Wells, Victoria Regina (1887). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Victoria and Albert, 1851. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images.
Thomas Sully, Victoria (1838). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Francis T. Sully Darley, 1914. Acc. No. 14.126.1. metmuseum.org.
John Partridge, Prince Albert (1840). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert (1840), by Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Victoria (1859). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Princess Victoria as Crown Princess of Prussia (c. 1865). Photo: akg-images.
Victoria with her four eldest children (1854), by Roger Fenton. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016.
Victoria and Albert with their children outside Osborne House (1854). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1861. Photo: Archive Photos/Getty Images.
Queen Victoria, Princess Beatrice (1859). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images
Henry Courtney Selous, The Opening of the Great Exhibition (1851–52. Private Collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Carl Friedrich Koepke, Louise, Baroness Lehzen (c. 1842). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
After George Dawe, Leopold I, King of the Belgians (c. 1844–50). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1836). © National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry Pickersgill, Sir John Conroy (1837). Private Collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (c. 1880). Photo: PVDE / Bridgeman Images.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Sir Robert Peel (1844) (detail). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
J. Woods, after Hablot Browne and R. Garland, Buckingham Palace and Marble Arch (1837). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Joseph Nash, The Queen Driving Out with Louis-Philippe from the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle, 10 October 1844. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Osborne House illustration from T. Nelson, English Scenery, 1889. Private Collection. Photo: Look and Learn / Bridgeman Images.
August Becker, Balmoral (1865). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Sir Edwin Landseer, Queen Victoria Landing at Loch Muick (1850). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Queen Victoria, A Highland Landscape (1859). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Albert in later years (undated photograph). Photo: Bettmann / Getty Images.
Edward Henry Corbould, Memorial Portrait of the Prince Consort (1863). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Princess Louise, Queen Victoria Dreaming of Her Reunion with Prince Albert (1862). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Victoria’
s daughters grouped around a bust of their father (1862), by William Bambridge. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016.
Victoria on horseback at Balmoral (1863), by George Washington Wilson. Private Collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
John Brown with the dogs Corran, Dacho, Rochie and Sharp (1871). Libby Hall Collection, Bishopsgate Institute, London.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1878). Photo: Pictures from History/Cornelius Jabez Hughes/Bridgeman Images.
William Ewart Gladstone (c. 1890). Photo: Chris Hellier/Alamy.
Bruno Strassberger, Kaiser Wilhelm II (c. 1890s). Historisches Museum der Stadt, Vienna. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Victoria and Princess Beatrice (c. 1880), by W. & D. Downey. Photo: Granger Collection/Alamy.
Victoria and Edward, Prince of Wales, in Coburg (1895). Photo: adoc-photos/Art Resource, NY.
Victoria and Abdul Karim, “The Munshi” (c. 1894). The Illustrated London News Picture Library, London. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
Heinrich von Angeli, Victoria (1899). Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
A Jubilee Portrait of Queen Victoria Laughing (1887). Photo: TopFoto.
Sir James Reid, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Queen (1901). Private collection. Photo: Look and Learn / Illustrated Papers Collection / Bridgeman Images
Victoria’s funeral procession passes Wellington Arch (1901). Private collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JULIA BAIRD is a journalist, broadcaster, and author based in Sydney, Australia. She is a columnist for the International New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald, and host of The Drum on ABC TV (Australia). Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Monthly, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Sydney. In 2005, Baird was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, after which she spent several years as deputy editor of Newsweek in New York.
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