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Friday 9 September 2011

Queen Victoria and Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Continuing the theme of royalties and the arts, Queen Victoria’s friendship with Alfred, Lord Tennyson is very fascinating. Being a neighbour on the Isle of Wight, Tennyson was sometimes invited from his home, Farringford (now The Farringford Hotel ), to Osborne House where Queen Victoria, who enjoyed his work, liked to spend time in his company, though, as she wrote to her daughter, Vicky, she found him rather dark and gloomy at times and described him as looking ‘very old’.

The rest of this post has been temporarily removed due to an agreement re. the recent publication of my book "Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918".

2 comments:

Wightpod said...

We have a new webiste about Tennyson and his visitors at that special time during his stay on the Isle of Wight http://www.lordalfredtennyson.com

Christina said...

Thank you for your link! It's a beautiful site and I will link to it on our other blog :-)

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