Christmas was an important time for Queen Victoria and her family so join me as I explore the magic of Victorian Christmas!
‘A great feeling of strangeness & unlikeness to Christmas’: Queen Victoria’s Christmas 1896
‘It was a very merry Xmas’: Queen Victoria’s Christmas 1845
‘This festive day’: Queen Victoria’s Christmas 1847
‘A merry happy night’: Prince Albert’s final Christmas
“This has indeed been a terribly sad Christmas for us all”: Queen Victoria’s final Christmas
1832: Christmas with Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace
1840: Queen Victoria’s first Christmas as a wife and mother
The Royal Family and Christmas Trees
A Victorian Christmas: St. Nicholas Visits Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria’s Christmas Dinner
The history of the Christmas card
A royal hobby: Victoria, Albert and winter sports
Queen Victoria’s Twelfth Night Cake
A mutual love: Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens
Prince Albert’s terrifying ice skating accident
© Queen.Victoria.Roses / Shannon McInulty 2026