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« Reply #420 on: October 22, 2009, 06:58:02 PM »
Hi my name is Margaret . I live in new zealand and I am  decendant from madam de saint laurent/ Duke of kent . They had 2 sons i believe and that is where we decended from. I do have some paper work from a family tree that was done some years back.

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« Reply #421 on: October 22, 2009, 07:45:35 PM »
Hi my name is Margaret . I live in new zealand and I am  decendant from madam de saint laurent/ Duke of kent . They had 2 sons i believe and that is where we decended from. I do have some paper work from a family tree that was done some years back.

There are lots of people who claim to be descended from  supposed children of this union.  However, there The Duke of Kent had no children by Mme de St Laurent.  If there were any, they would have been recorded somewhere, as such children were usually acknowledged, as his brothers did with their numerous illegitimate offspring.  There were some who argue that the records were destroyed, but there would still be some mention in correspondence somewhere.  There would have been no reason to keep such children a secret.
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« Reply #422 on: November 21, 2009, 03:53:24 PM »
Young Victoria by Carl v. Vogelstein, 1834


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« Reply #423 on: November 21, 2009, 04:18:37 PM »
She was very young in this portrait, she looks strange and different than in the majority of
her portraits, she looks sooo beautiful. isn't it a little bit... idealized??

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« Reply #424 on: November 22, 2009, 11:21:05 AM »
Whoa! it doesnt look a bit like her

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« Reply #425 on: November 23, 2009, 02:45:45 PM »
Perhaps because is strange for me to see her as young as in this portrait, but she changed
a lot with the time

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« Reply #426 on: November 23, 2009, 09:11:24 PM »
i have seen portrait of her younger days but i could recognice her. If you dont tell me is it her, i could never think it was Victoria cause the lady of that portrait has no her face (AKA nose, cheeks, eyes)

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« Reply #427 on: November 24, 2009, 03:17:22 PM »
Perhaps looking her more carefully, or perhaps because she looks not as plump as in other of her
portraits, even of her as a young lady

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« Reply #428 on: November 24, 2009, 04:22:27 PM »
i think the artist just wanted to make her a "bit Different". Artistic licenses and stuff...

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« Reply #429 on: November 24, 2009, 09:49:27 PM »
i think the artist just wanted to make her a "bit Different". Artistic licenses and stuff...

I notice that there are some where she seems a bit idealized (hardly unusual).  There's one -- done by Winterhalter, I think -- where she is seated, wearing her regalia, and staring straight forward.  She looks like Alice, or even Vicky.

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« Reply #430 on: November 24, 2009, 10:05:57 PM »
Well, at least in that one she keeps some of the "hannover" facial features , thing it doesnt happen in the portrait we were talking about, cause if you look at it you cant see those facial features at all. Totally idealized

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« Reply #431 on: November 25, 2009, 03:14:31 PM »
Well, at least in that one she keeps some of the "hannover" facial features , thing it doesnt happen in the portrait we were talking about, cause if you look at it you cant see those facial features at all. Totally idealized
Indeed true ;-) Many paintings (even of other royals) don't look completely like they were really,
it was a little bit common on those days

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« Reply #432 on: November 25, 2009, 05:34:11 PM »
Well, at least in that one she keeps some of the "hannover" facial features , thing it doesnt happen in the portrait we were talking about, cause if you look at it you cant see those facial features at all. Totally idealized
Indeed true ;-) Many paintings (even of other royals) don't look completely like they were really,
it was a little bit common on those days


Just like a lot of photos are "touched up" nowadays!!
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Re: Queen Victoria & Prince Albert--Photos and Information
« Reply #433 on: December 14, 2009, 10:42:26 AM »
 Today 14 december, are 148 years since poor Albert died at the young age of 42. R.I.P . But also 131 years since his daugher Alice died.
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« Reply #434 on: December 14, 2009, 04:18:16 PM »
It is also King George VI's birthday