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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - 10 February 1840, Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace - Sir George Hayter (1792-1871) Victoria...

This watercolour shows guests arriving at a ball via the Grand Staircase in 1848. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018

Despite her determination that no fuss should be made over her landmark achievement, plans for celebrations of the Queen overtaking Victoria are gathering pace

Painting of the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840.

Photograph of Queen Mary when Princess of Wales, seated. She holds a closed fan in her hands and wears the Love Trophy Collar, together with the tiara made by Boucheron in 1902 (dismantled to make the Delhi Durbar Tiara), the County of Surrey Necklace/Tiara, dismantled in 1913-14 and the Kensington Brooch. On her satin dress she wears the Royal Family Orders of Queen Victoria and Edward VII. Her dress is sequinned with pearls on the arms. Signed and dated.

It became the emblem of the early years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and remains one of the most iconic images of her rule. And the tiara that helped tell the story of the transformation...

KING EDWARD VIII, the son of King George V & Queen Mary, who does not…

Queen Alexandra (1843-1925) wearing Coronation robes, with attendants, 1902

The sceptre comprises a gold rod, formed in three sections, with enamelled collars at the intersections, surmounted by an enamelled heart-shaped structure, which holds a huge drop-shaped diamond, Cullinan I, or the Star of Africa, weighing 530.2 carats. This structure is surmounted by enamelled brackets mounted with step-cut emeralds, and by a faceted amethyst monde, set with table and rose-cut diamonds, rubies, spinels and emeralds, with a cross above set with further diamonds, with a…

Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales by Franz Xavier Winterhalter