Discovering the secret life of Queen Victoria since 2018
© Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust RCIN 980024.ax This week we’re looking at this intimate pencil, watercolour and ink sketch by Queen Victoria of her third and fourth children, Princess Alice and Prince Alfred. In her journal entry dated 20th September 1845, Queen Victoria writes that she "sketched Alice & Affie… Continue reading Sketchbook Saturday, week 21
Hesse family group with Queen Victoria, February 1879. From left to right: Princess Victoria; Hereditary Grand Duke, Ernest Louis; Grand Duke Louis IV; Queen Victoria; Princess Irene; Princess Elizabeth; Princess Alix. ©️ Royal Collection Trust / HM King Charles III "Poor dear children, for I write this for you all—you have had the most terrible… Continue reading Letter from Queen Victoria to the children of Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, dated December 1878: