Statue of Queen Victoria in 1837
by Patricia Hofmeester
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Statue of Queen Victoria in 1837
Artist
Patricia Hofmeester
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Photograph - Photography
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Statue of the young Queen Victoria in front of her Kensington palace in London, UK
London has many statues of Queen Victoria. One monument in Kensington Gardens, however, commemorates Queen Victoria unlike any other – the Queen Victoria Statue. Most appropriately, it stands in front of Kensington Palace, the palace where the future Princess Victoria of Kent was born and christened in 1819. Importantly, it was in the bedroom at Kensington Palace which she shared with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, where she was woken on the morning of 20 June 1837 to learn of the death at Windsor Castle of her uncle, King William IV and that she was ‘consequently’ now Queen. It thus shows a young, eighteen-year-old Queen in her coronation robes, although Queen Victoria was in fact, seventy-four at the time that it was presented by the Kensington Golden Jubilee Memorial Executive Committee and unveiled, in 1893.
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April 9th, 2013
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