Queen Victoria & Prince Albert--Photos and Information

'Embonpoint' is a term I've come across a few times - does anyone know what it means?  :-?

"Embonpoint" means "stoutness" in French.

it was also used to mean pregnancy. A polite way of saying it.

May some would like to know that


Victoria R.I.
passed away 99 years ago......

Hi,

Actually, Queen Victoria died in 1901, which is 109 years ago!!

And her grandson, George V passed away January 20th (yesterday) 1936 - 74 years ago...

Larry

of course.. my fault...

her great-grandson George VI 6th Feb. I think the first half of the years is not so good for British sovereigns.

This sounds wonderful and will be very interesting, I can't wait!

http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=758

[Cleves]

Through marriage she would also have been a Duchess of Saxony.

As spouse of an agnate of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha she would in theory be entitled to this titulary - some of the titles substantive, most of them just in pretence:
Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony, Juliers, Cleves and Berg, also of Angria and Westphalia, Landgravine in Thuringia, Margravine of Meissen, Princely Countess of Henneberg, Countess of the Mark and Ravensberg, Lady of Ravenstein and Tonna, et cetera.

At the end of her reign, her full title was:

Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India.

R.I.

R.I.

And the full Latin style was:
Sua Maiestas Victoria, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regina, Fidei Defensor, Indiæ Imperatrix.

In the Latin style "Britanniarum", the plural genitive of Britain, or "of the Britains", was (and is) used instead of the UK of GB & I!

Edward VII adopted the designation "Britanniarum omnium rex", King of All/Every/Both the Britains, which strangely still seems to be the usual Latin style, although the state's Latin name is just Britanniarum Regnum, with the literal translation "Coniunctum Britanniae Magnae et Hiberniae Septentrionalis Regnum" a secondary option.

In contrast the Emperors of all the Russias was in Latin, as in the original Russian, usually styled "totius Russiæ Imperator", Emperor of All Russia, in the singular.

PAST & PRESENT
John Brown & Queen Victoria at Osborne, by Landseer. This picture matched up more by accident than design, and I got an obliging passing thunder cloud too.

    I also got very wet.

a couple of more images of the Queen for the collection

1894 Queen Victoria painted by Tuxen



Diamond Jubilee Photo of Queen Victoria & Edward VII (she looks rather depressed here I think..)



1897 Queen Victoria



Queen Victoria



1900 Queen Victoria

Recieving bad news...



its inusual to see the Queen like this!

did anyone know what news? any idea?

The third photo posted by Katmaxoz...just extraordinarily candid!  I've never seen QV like this...I just love it...you can almost imagine being in the very room with her.