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Adiacente alla cattedrale di San Lorenzo, il museo offre un percorso denso di storia e una ricca varietà di opere: tele, affreschi, statue, reperti archeologici. Da scoprire in ambienti di grande fascino Poche città, come Genova, riescono a stupire e a coinvolgere, ogni volta in maniera nuova, non solo i visitatori, ma anche chi vi ha trascorso anni di vita, di studi. È nel carattere e nello stile della Superba avere, accanto a strade maestose, come quella Aurea (l’attuale via Garibaldi), e a monumenti...

After 63 years on the throne, Victoria’s death left the nation pondering its own mortality. Having known no other leader, the nation’s future felt uncertain… A mass of black-clothed mourners waited to say their last goodbyes to the queen who had served them devotedly for nearly 64 years – the second longest of any British monarch. An eerie silence hung over them like a shroud as people bowed their heads in sorrow, some shaking with grief and others from the bitter cold. The only sound came from...

How a tiny island and its queen came to possess an empire so large that the sun never set on it “Britain had the might, ingenuity and limitless ambition to conquer the world” The date was 22 January 1901 and the British Empire was the largest of any in human history, but the monarch who reigned over it would not live to see another day. As Queen Victoria lay dying in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight she looked back on a reign that spanned over 63 years. She had seen her empire grow from a collection...

How a Victorian vision reinvented the Raj and transformed Britain’s place in the world. On 5 May 1876, a tiny woman of German descent became empress of the mighty subcontinent of India and the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Queen Victoria’s accession to the imperial throne was the most visible sign of British world domination in the 19th century and it was a remarkable feat that a small group of islands off the coast of Europe had managed to impose its will so completely on a huge country...

Black-clad, dour-faced and decidedly not amused, Queen Victoria’s grief came to define her. When most people think of Queen Victoria, they picture a joyless widow dressed in black, a woman who closed down her emotions on the day she lost her soulmate and devoted herself for the rest of her days to the self-indulgent business of mourning her late husband. Earlier paintings and photographs that captured a hopeful princess and composed queen who had no time for such misery have been shunted aside in the public consciousness in favour of a woman who, infamously, was supposedly “not amused”...

They may have been the very model of Victorian morality, but Victoria and her family weren’t immune to a few embarrassments of their own. “Conroy encouraged the press to report that Victoria had dismissed a dying woman in her hour of need” Though she has become synonymous with morality and ushering in the straight-laced, straight-faced Victorian era, Queen Victoria’s royal household had plenty of scandals of its own. From freewheeling sons to rumours of illegitimate pregnancy and more, what went...

During and after her long reign, plenty of very persistent gossip stuck to Queen Victoria’s name! “WE ARE NOT AMUSED” The quote most attributed to Queen Victoria supposedly happened when the famously dour monarch withered a merry courtier by telling him, “we are not amused.” In fact, there’s no evidence that she ever said any such thing and with dozens of eyewitness accounts each giving a different version of events, it seems that Queen Victoria never uttered the words and “we are not amused” is, in fact, her version of Marie Antoinette’s famously fictional “let them eat cake...

Queen Victoria’s extensive journals offer a unique insight into the private life of the monarch. Princess Victoria of Kent was just 13 years old when she wrote the first words in her journal, beginning a habit that was to last until the very end of her life. The diaries are a priceless record of the queen’s daily life and a unique opportunity to understand not only the monarch’s personality, but the times in which she lived. In almost 44,000 pages she describes her meetings with the great and good, the state of the nation and the government of her day...

From German ‘pauper prince’ to the most powerful man in England "Oh! Was ever woman so blessed as Iam,” Victoria happily wrote after her wedding day in February 1840. Her first cousin and groom, the dashing Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, had won her heart. It was unfortunate that the public, press and parliament didn’t feel the same way. In Britain, fears of foreign influence and anti-German feeling were rife, long before World War One. Germany was not a country at that time, but rather...

Far from the passive, politically detached monarch she is often painted as, Victoria was a driving force in making Britain a leading world power When Victoria ascended the throne, the monarchy was in a precarious position. Radicalists had grown in strength throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, many of them calling for an end to the Crown. Meanwhile in Europe and its colonies, republicanism had taken hold, first with the American Revolution and then with the French. The power of the British...

This seaside retreat gave Queen Victoria and Prince Albert some much-needed privacy away from London TIMELINE It’s impossible to imagine a prettier spot,” said Queen Victoria of her island hideaway, Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight. She had been married to Prince Albert for five years and already had four children when they began to look for a holiday home. The queen wanted to give her ever-expanding family a chance to escape court life and be themselves in the privacy and luxury of a grand estate...

Though she was a busy monarch, Queen Victoria still found time to raise a large family, which wasn’t without its pressures As a monarch, Queen Victoria’s reputation as a joyless prude precedes her, but it isn’t a reputation that she entirely deserves. Immortalised in the public consciousness as a heartbroken widow, she was also a loving and devoted wife, not to mention the mother of nine children. Like any family, such a large brood didn’t come without its challenges and rewards. Despite or perhaps...