Queen Victoria also had a half-sister who was 12 years her senior, Princess Feodora, from her mother’s first marriage to Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen. Her mother was Victoria Saxe-Saalfield-Coburg, sister of Leopold, king of the Belgians. Queen Victoria was the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, who was King George III's fourth son. Later in life, her weight ballooned, with her waist reportedly measuring 50 inches. As a child, she was said to be warm-hearted and lively.Įducated at the Royal Palace by a governess, she had a gift for drawing and painting and developed a passion for journal writing.ĭespite a feisty temperament, Victoria was famously tiny in stature, measuring just 4 feet 11 inches tall. Her mother became a domineering influence in her life. Early Lifeīorn Alexandrina Victoria on May 24, 1819, Queen Victoria’s father died when she was 8 months old. Victoria's reign saw great cultural expansion advances in industry, science and communications and the building of railways and the London Underground. After Queen Elizabeth II, Victoria is the second-longest reigning British monarch. “Unfortunately, there is a question of the ownership of the letters which has not yet been resolved.Queen Victoria served as monarch of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901.
The Palace’s plan was to publish the letters online on April 11, 2021, in time for the centenary of Augusta Victoria’s death, says Jörg Kirschstein, a curator of the 2018 exhibition as well as manager of Neues Palace. The letters are addressed to Augusta Victoria while she was still Crown Princess.” “We do not yet have information on what the letters are about. The two wooden boxes were corded-and the strings sealed as well-but one box had been opened once.” In this box, Wittwer says that very few of the seals of the envelopes had been broken and opened, which indicated the amount of letters in total. “Some of the envelopes show the name of the writer of the letters inside, but the envelopes are still sealed. “To be sure that no one would read these private letters, the letters were packed in envelopes according to the people who wrote them and then sealed,” says Wittwer.
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Hulton Archive // Getty ImagesĪccording to the addresses on the boxes, Wittwer believes that the letters were transported from the Berlin Schloss to the Neues Palais when Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria moved there. Opening this lock was rather easy.”Įmperor Wilhelm II of Germany with his wife Augusta Victoria in a photo dated around 1900. “Because the second door was only wood, the lock was much more simply made.
“It was unreachable without a ladder, which would have been difficult to use in such a tight space anyway,” says Wittwer. They happened to spot a second, much smaller door above the steel door which looked very much the same. The curators tried but failed to get past the steel door. As we were preparing for the exhibition on the end of the monarchy, we were curious to see if our experts could open it.” “There are no keys and no one from the former or present palace staff ever saw it open. Samuel Wittwer, director of the Prussian castles. “In the former boudoir of Augusta Victoria there is a steel safe built in the wall in a small cabinet,” says Dr.
While preparing for the exhibition, curators made a startling discovery in the dressing room of Wilhelm’s wife, Empress Augusta Victoria (pictured above with her great aunt, Queen Victoria). In 2018, The Neues Palais-the last palace built by Frederick the Great in Potsdam, Germany-hosted a small exhibition called “Kaiserdämmerung” (“The Twilight of the Emperor”), to mark the centenary of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s abdication as Emperor and King of Prussia.
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