We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria in Victoria

Queen Victoria’s Emerald and Diamond Tiara

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s shared love of art and design resulted in many an exquisite treasure, including jewels like her Sapphire Coronet and the Oriental Circlet. “Albert has such taste and arranges everything for me about my jewels,” Victoria wrote. This Gothic-inspired emerald and diamond tiara is another example, a piece personally designed by Prince Albert and commissioned in 1845 from the London jeweler Joseph Kitching for £1,150. 

The tiara, nearly a full circlet in shape, has a base of cushion-shaped diamonds and step-cut emeralds topped by a graduated row of 19 inverted pear-shaped emeralds; the largest emerald weighs in at 15 carats. The tiara completed a parure of emeralds and diamonds previously gifted to the Queen by her husband, including a necklace with 9 clusters of emeralds surrounded by cushion-shaped diamonds, a pair of pendant earrings, and a brooch featuring a 20-carat emerald. Queen Victoria was thrilled with her emerald tiara gift, referring to it as a “lovely Diadem of diamonds and emeralds designed by my beloved Albert” and writing of her husband’s “wonderful taste” in her journal. She chose to wear the emerald tiara in the family portrait she commissioned from Franz Xaver Winterhalter the following year, entitled The Royal Family in 1846. For that family portrait, she paired the tiara with a different set of brooches and earrings. She was later painted wearing the tiara with the parure that exists today.

Victoria: Et in Arcadia

Queen Victoria in every episode: 2x05 → Entente Cordiale I was not snapped up. I chose to marry Albert because I love him.

Victoria x Albert + Height Difference: 3/-

Queen Victoria in every episode: 2x03 → Warp and Weft You know, all those years growing up in Kensington, I never knew what it meant to be happy.

Bend down. Hold tight. Your hand with my hand. Pull. Whip.

Help me I’m back on my bullshit

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Queen Victoria’s costumes in 3.07 A Public Inconvenience

Victoria in Every Episode: Season 1, Episode 2- Ladies in Waiting.

I absolutely will not give up my ladies, Sir Robert and what’s more I believe you have no right to ask me!

Queen Victoria’s costumes in 3.06 A Coburg Quartet