Queen Victoria & Prince Albert--Photos and Information

[dandylion]

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.

[jehan]

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.

[Rani]

Young Victoria by Carl v. Vogelstein, 1834

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

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??

[Carolath Habsburg]

Whoa! it doesnt look a bit like her

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Perhaps because is strange for me to see her as young as in this portrait, but she changed
a lot with the time

[Carolath Habsburg]

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)

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

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

[Carolath Habsburg]

i think the artist just wanted to make her a "bit Different". Artistic licenses and stuff...

[wildone]

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.

[Carolath Habsburg]

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

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

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

[jehan]

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!!

[miki_nastya]

 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.

[B5218]

It is also King George VI's birthday