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  1. Visit of Queen Victoria, 1855

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  2. QUEEN VICTORIA and Prince Albert on a visit to Louis Philippe of France

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  3. Visit of Queen Victoria, 1855

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  4. Queen Victoria’s Visit to France in 1843

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  5. In August 1855 Queen Victoria paid an historic state visit to Paris at

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  6. Queen Victoria’s visit to the Palace of Versailles

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  1. List of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria

    Below is a list of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria during her reign, which lasted from 1837 until 1901, giving the names of the places she stayed and any known reasons for her visit.. Despite being head of the British Empire, which included territory on all inhabited continents, Queen Victoria never travelled outside of Europe, only travelling as far north as Golspie, southwesterly as ...

  2. Visit of Queen Victoria, 1855

    Visit of Queen Victoria, 1855 20 and 25 August 1855. Visit of Queen Victoria, 1855. One of Napoleon III's greatest aims was to reconcile his country with England. During the British Queen's visit to France he made sure she was met with an ostentatiousness not witnessed in Versailles since the Monarchy. The emperor was very favourably ...

  3. Queen Victoria's Visit to France in 1843

    Queen Victoria's visit to see the King of the French at the Château d'Eu in Normandy on 2 September 1843 made headline news. She was the first British monarch to visit a French monarch since Henry VIII of England visited Francis I of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. Queen Victoria's visit was also a symbolic gesture of ...

  4. Queen Victoria in Paris

    This event is in the past. Daily (Thursday, 13 Oct 2016 - Saturday, 10 Dec 2016) In August 1855, Queen Victoria made a historic State Visit to Paris, the first time a British monarch had visited the French capital in over 400 years. Just 40 years after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, France and Britain had entered a ...

  5. The Surprising Story of Queen Victoria, Travel Influencer

    On 1 May 1899, Queen Victoria lamented going north—every year she was growing fonder of Cimiez. Intending to visit again in 1890, strong feelings stirred by stories of the brutality of the Boer ...

  6. British State Visit to France, 1855

    British State Visit to France, 1855. August 26, 2020 ~ Saad719. Following the French State Visit to Britain in April, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal as they made a historic State Visit to France, where they were hosted by Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie of France for a 10 ...

  7. Louis Philippe, King of France, Visited by Queen Victoria

    This print commemorates Queen Victoria's and Prince Albert's visit to France in September 1843, said to be the first by a British monarch since Henry VIII had attended the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 (!) ... Title: Louis Philippe, King of France, Visited by Queen Victoria. Lithographer: Nicolas Eustache Maurin (French, Perpignan 1799 ...

  8. The Queen landing in France, Sept, 8

    A drawing in oil on paper showing Queen Victoria landing near Tréport, France, on 8 September 1845, on her way home from a family holiday in Germany and Belgium. The royal barge is shown in the centre, with a bathing machine to the right. Figures are shown boarding the bathing machine, which is flying a French flag and is about to be pulled towards the beach by a horse.

  9. Queen Victoria's visit to the Palace of Versailles

    After his stay in London in April 1855, Queen Victoria came on a return visit to France from 17 - 28 August 1855 to attend the opening of the Universal Exhibition. The Emperor went to meet her and her family himself at Dunkirk and accompanied her back to Paris. He put on a splendid reception for her at Versailles on 25 August.

  10. A Review of "Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera," by

    Left to right: (a) The Queen's visit to the Chateau d'Eu in 1843, painted by Eugene-Louis Lami (from the Yorck Project on Wikimedia Commons). (b) The new casino at Monte Carlo, designed by Charles Garnier and opened in 1879 — a favourite haunt of the Prince of Wales. ... Queen Victoria had already visited France twice before coming to the ...

  11. Queen Victoria's visit to Cherbourg, 4 August 1858

    Queen Victoria's visit to Cherbourg, 4 August 1858. The view is of crowded shipping in the roadstead at Cherbourg, partly looking over the town, from the Fort du Roule (on the right), which flies the French tricoleur. The time is shortly after the arrival of the Royal Yacht 'Victoria and Albert II' at 7 p.m. having been preceded from Portsmouth ...

  12. Queen Victoria

    Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors—constituted the Victorian era.It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom ...

  13. How Queen Victoria Put Aix-les-Bains On The Map

    With Queen Victoria in Aix-les-Bains. When Queen Victoria followed her daughter Beatrice's advice and traveled to Aix-les-Bains for the first time in 1880, she was sealing the reputation of a thermal town with grandiose aspirations. Aix was already well-known beyond its borders but the Queen's visits granted it the final seal of approval it ...

  14. What's Fact, What's Fiction in Victoria Season 2 Episode 3

    Fact or Fiction: Victoria was the first British monarch to visit France since Henry VIII. Fact: Additionally, she was the first monarch to have left England in nearly a century. 2.

  15. Queen Victoria in Nice

    Vicky Arrives in Style. When the Queen (I mean Lady Balmoral) began to visit Nice, she was 76 years old, short, round and always dressed in black. She would arrive in her own special train, accompanied by close to 100 staff members. These included Scottish soldiers wearing kilts and playing bagpipes and Indian soldiers wearing turbans.

  16. The promenade in the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles, 25 August, 1855

    A watercolour drawing of the Galerie des Glaces at the chateau of Versailles, with many guests. At the centre is Queen Victoria on the arm of Napoleon III, with Prince Albert and the Empress behind. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales is in a kilt, accompanied by Prince Napoleon, a cousin of Napoleon III, and Victoria, Princess Royal. The gentleman in red coats ahead of the procession are Grands ...

  17. Château d'Eu

    Château d'Eu Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu, by Eugène-Louis Lami, 1843. The Château d'Eu is a former royal residence in the town of Eu, in the Seine-Maritime department of France, in Normandy.. The Château d'Eu stands at the centre of the town and was built in the 16th century to replace an earlier one purposely demolished in 1475 to prevent its capture by the English.

  18. Paris 1855 Exposition: History, Images, Interpretation

    Queen Victoria's visit capped all these sentiments, and brought them to the general public. The French and the English were fighting side by side in the Crimea; the Emperor liked English institutions; Gautier, Delacroix, and Baudelaire found my to admire in the art and thought of France's ancient enemy.

  19. Queen Victoria in Paris: Bowes Museum [Barnard Castle]

    Explore the Exhibition. This event is in the past. Daily (Saturday 24 Mar 2018 - Saturday 23 Jun 2018) In August 1855, Queen Victoria made a historic State Visit to Paris, the first time a British monarch had visited the French capital in over 400 years. Just 40 years after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, France and ...

  20. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's visit to Paris

    Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's visit to Paris, struck bronze, by Jean Pierre Montagny, French, 19th century, 1855. ... France (made) This is a bronze medal commemorating the visit of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort to Paris in August 1855. It was made by Jean Pierre Montagny.

  21. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) on the French Riviera

    Queen Victoria (1819-1901) on the French Riviera. Repeated holidays on the Riviera of the royal family of England strengthened the reputation of Côte d'Azur in all the British empire. The stays of queen Victoria left a lot of memories particularly in Nice. Born in London in 1819, Victoria became queen of Great Britain and Ireland at the death ...

  22. Louis Philippe I

    Louis Philippe (1773-1850), Roi Bourgeois by Eugène Lami Queen Victoria arrives at the Château d'Eu during her visit in 1843 Louis Philippe I is the only French king to be the subject of a photograph (1842 daguerreotype) Louis Philippe ruled in an unpretentious fashion, avoiding the pomp and lavish spending of his predecessors.

  23. Collection Focus

    Its original title was Louis-Philippe 1er. recvit la Visite de Victoria, Reine d'Angleterre. [Louis-Philippe I receives the Visit of Victoria, Queen of England]. This is a copy of a lithograph by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin c. 1844, French engraver. He was born in Perpignan, France on 6 March 1799 and died in Paris in 1850.