Discovering the secret life of Queen Victoria since 2018
This Royal Fashion Friday I want to talk about one of the most extravagant outfits worn by Queen Victoria… her Georgian ball gown. Taking place at Buckingham Palace on 6th June 1845, the Georgian Ball was perhaps the most lavish event to take place during Victoria’s reign. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal… Continue reading Queen Victoria’s Georgian Ball Costume
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments © Queen.Victoria.Roses / Shannon McInulty Don’t forget to subscribe to my website to receive email updates about new posts! This article is the intellectual property of Queen.Victoria.Roses and should not be COPIED, EDITED, OR POSTED IN ANY FORM ON ANOTHER WEBSITE under any circumstances unless… Continue reading Questions about Queen Victoria that keep me up at night (part 2)
© Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal Collection TrustRCIN 405439 Fitting for the summer months the Royal Collection Trust has uploaded a new portrait of Queen Victoria in a bright yellow dress to their online collection. Painted in 1851, the same year as the iconic Great Exhibition, the portrait was completed by artist Charles… Continue reading The Royal Collection Trust releases a new portrait of Queen Victoria online
Worn between 1835-1837, this dress is thought to be the one worn Princess Victoria of Kent (later Queen Victoria) when she met her future husband, Prince Albert, for the very first time. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal Collection Trust RCIN 71984 The dress itself is made up of two parts, a bodice… Continue reading Queen Victoria’s Tartan Dress
This famous photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from May 1854 is often described as showing the couple in their wedding costumes from fourteen years earlier. However, the history of this photograph and the dress itself have been well documented not only by a colourised version of the image from the same time period… Continue reading Queen Victoria’s 1854 Green Court Dress
On Wednesday I shared a post with questions about Queen Victoria that have always played on my mind and one of my lovely followers challenged me to do some research and see what answers I could come up with. So, today I begin by looking at one of the biggest questions: What was Queen Victoria’s… Continue reading Prison or Protection: What was Queen Victoria’s childhood under the Kensington System really like?
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments © Queen.Victoria.Roses / Shannon McInulty Don’t forget to subscribe to my website to receive email updates about new posts! This article is the intellectual property of Queen.Victoria.Roses and should not be COPIED, EDITED, OR POSTED IN ANY FORM ON ANOTHER WEBSITE under any circumstances unless… Continue reading Questions about Queen Victoria that keep me up at night
On 1st May 1851 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert experienced ‘one of the greatest & most glorious days’ of her life when the attended the magnificent opening ceremony of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first international exhibition to showcase the newest technologies from around the world. Whilst he… Continue reading Queen Victoria’s Great Exhibition Dress
Prince Albert proudly designed Osborne House on the Isle of Wight as a seaside residence for his wife, Queen Victoria, and their nine children as a way to enjoy time together away from the bustle of London. Between the time they purchased the house in 1845 until Albert’s premature death in 1861 the house was… Continue reading A royal memorial: Prince Albert at Osborne House
One of the cutest events to take place during the happier years of Queen Victoria’s reign is the children’s costume ball, which took place at Buckingham Palace on 7th April 1859 in honour of Prince Leopold’s sixth birthday. The Children's Fancy Ball at Buckingham Palace, 7th April 1859 by Eugenio Agneni © Royal Collection Enterprises… Continue reading ‘It had the prettiest effect possible’: A children’s ball is held at Buckingham Palace
© Lyon and Turnbull Yesterday (22nd April 2026), auction house Lyon and Turnbull sold this stunning gold and turquoise bracelet which had once been given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Lady Rachel Russell. Described by the Queen as ‘a delightful child of 11 years old,’ Rachel was believed to be the product of… Continue reading Queen Victoria’s gift to Lady Rachel Russell
Today (21st April 2026) marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. As part of their commemorative post on instagram, the Royal Family shared this lovely photo of Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth standing beside a painting of Queen Victoria’s seventh child, Prince Leopold, on October 1842. ‘Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth… Continue reading Queen Elizabeth poses with a painting of Prince Leopold