Queen Victoria

John Bruton Objected To Sending Queen Victoria Statue To Sydney

... with pleasure and gratitude. “There it would stand as a constant reminder of the permanent bond and friendship between our two countries,” he said, adding a guarantee that the statue would be maintained in a fit and proper manner. However, the director of the National Museum of Ireland John Teahan wrote a memo objecting to the plan to send the statue to Australia. ‘Part of our heritage’. He argued that it was the work of an Irish artist and, historically, was part of the Irish scene. “If we are deemed not to be mature enough to distinguish between the art-historical merits of Hughes’ Victoria, for instance, and a symbol of authority, which does not or at least should not apply, I advise that such a figure be retained and protected until we have grown up sufficiently to look that Queen, long ...

Julia Baird's New Biography Re-examines The Life Of Queen Victoria

... amid the polluted muck of unrelieved poverty and suffering, an era of empire-building and bloody oppression, an age where women began to fight for their rights while their queen looked askance at women's suffrage. "What we have truly forgotten today is that Victoria is a woman under whose auspices the modern world was made," Baird writes. Queen Victoria was only human, but she also was smart, patriotic, and intent on doing what she thought was right for her country and her people. Baird's biography successfully presents the queen in all of her roles, some of which were contradictory, to show how Victoria did indeed have a mind of her own — despite her husband and prime ministers — and lived and ruled the way she thought best. The idea for this book was sparked, Baird writes, by the 2008 presidential election in the United ...

Irish Minister Opposed Queen Victoria Statue Being Sent To Sydney, Cabinet Papers Reveal

... outside Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building ever since. The Irish Times reported that then taoiseach Garret Fitz Gerald backed the plan to send the statue, which was originally unveiled at Dublin’s Leinster House in 1908, to Australia. Is a Queen Victoria statue offensive? It’s about time we debated our colonial past | Owen Jones. Read more. However, Teahan wrote a memo objecting to the plan because it was the work of an Irish artist, John Hughes. “I advise that such a figure be retained and protected until we have grown up sufficiently to look that Queen, long dead, straight in the eye,” Teahan said. Bruton took the same view when the matter came before cabinet. “The minister for finance strongly objects to the removal of the Queen Victoria statue from Ireland. The monument is representative of one of the many traditions of Irish history. It is part of our heritage in no less a way than Norman or Viking remains,” said a ...

A Politically Incorrect Jamaican Footnote

... Considering how many more such Jamaican family histories have since come to light, certainly this one should prove a joyful revelation to viewers on both sides of "the pond," considering what it could contribute towards the racial peace, equality and harmony which for which we strive especially at this time of the year. The MORSE AND CATOR FAMILIES by Johan Zoffany, 1784. Aberdeen Art Gallery. Sitting beside Anne Frances Augier Morse, the grandmother of the Hon. Henry Arthur Herbert of Muckross, Lord Lieutenant of Kerry, Ireland, is her sister, Sarah, the wife of John Cator seen standing. Their brother, Robert, is playing the cello. Similar to the relationship of their mother's first cousin, the Hon. Frances Duff, to the Royal Family today through the Earls of Fife, Sarah was the great, great grand aunt of Elizabeth Margaret Cator who married the Hon. Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes Lyon, the brother of the "Queen Mum" in 1928. Because it also demonstrates the relationship of this, at the ...

The True Story Of Queen Victoria And Prince Albert's Love Affair

... the love story of the 19 th century. All that's left of the Royal Wedding attire: Shoes and stockings said to have been worn by Queen Victoria. The day she saw Albert again, Victoria, a smidgeon over five feet tall, stood high on a staircase in Windsor Castle to receive her German cousin, determined to look as regal as possible. Albert approached, and she took in his appearance: His eyes were "beautiful" blue, his features "perfect." He had a "delicate" blond moustache. Broad shouldered, Albert was five foot ten, with a narrow waist. He set her heart "quite going.". Victoria swooned. She was infatuated. It was Victoria who proposed marriage just five days later, and on February 10, 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James Palace, they were married. She wore a white lace wedding dress, one of the first women to do so, setting off a tremendous craze for lace and white weddings. On her head rested a wreath of orange blossoms and myrtle. The wedding guests noticed the orange blossoms vibrating as Victoria trembled with nerves at the altar. But her voice, as she said the vows binding her to Prince Albert, was clear. She had got what she wanted after ...

Queen Elizabeth And Prince Philip Are Actually Related

... on February 6 1952 following the death of her father. In October 2016, she became Britain's longest-reigning monarch. The royals are third cousins through Victoria. Expedia. While Victoria is Elizabeth's paternal great-great-grandmother, Philip is related to the monarch on his mother's side. Victoria's second daughter, Princess Alice, was born in 1843. In 1862, she married Ludwig IV — the Grand Duke of Hesse, and had seven children. In 1863, Alive gave birth to her first child, Victoria, who went on to marry her father's first cousin, Prince Louis of Battenburg, in 1884. One year later, the pair had their first child, Princess Alice of Battenburg — Prince Philip's mother. Alice was still closely linked to the British royal family, and was even born at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in Queen Victoria's presence. Philip was the youngest son of Princess Alice of Battenburg. library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. She married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, after meeting him at King Edward VII's coronation in London the previous year. Together they had five children, with Prince Philip being the youngest, born in 1921. This makes Philip and Elizabeth ...

Victoria The Warrior Queen

... constant in this period of unprecedented expansion, always at the centre of the imperial web, was the formidable figure of Victoria herself: shaping, supporting and sometimes condemning her government’s foreign policy – but never ignoring it. Though British monarchs no longer had the power to make or break governments, they still had, in the words of Walter Bagehot, the great constitutional historian, “three great rights”: to be consulted, to advise and to warn. Aided and abetted by her hugely underrated husband, Prince Albert, Victoria made full use of these rights to influence government policy. Doing the right thing. Of course Victoria took time to find her political feet. During the lead-up to the First Afghan War of 1839–42, for example, she was briefed by her ministers but played a largely passive role. Told by her prime minister, Lord Melbourne, on 28  October 1838 that the Indian government had done the “right thing” by mobilising its troops for an invasion of Afghanistan, she made no objection. Young and inexperienced, she was content to follow the advice of her prime minister. At first all went well, with the ...

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