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6 de nov. de 2017 · Lucinda Hawksley describes her quest to uncover the truth about a ‘much-maligned’ member of the Royal Family. When Lucinda Hawksley began researching her biography of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Louise, she didn’t expect to meet opposition from, amongst others, the Royal Archive. But requests for information here and elsewhere went unanswered — which only increased the author ...
Artist, sculptor and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria The sixth child of Queen Victoria, Princess Louise was considered the most beautiful of the royal children and also the most unconventional. Her marriage in 1871 to the commoner John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later ninth duke of Argyll, was popular with the public and viewed by the contemporary press as patriotic and 'democratic'. She ...
1 de abr. de 2019 · In part 5 of our series on Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Ann Galliard explores the friendship between the princess and the sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm - a friendship frowned upon in some quarters. The professional status of artists changed significantly after the 1860s. Previously, very few artists had the ...
Louise found it difficult to break her smoking habit and died with a debt of 15 shillings for cigarettes, which equates to roughly £30 in today’s currency. Her obituary in The Times described Princess Louise as ‘the least bound by convention and etiquette of any of the Royal Family’ ( The Times , 4 December 1939, p.
12 de ago. de 2016 · Louise studied sculpting under Joseph Edgar Boehm. Her self-portrait bust conveys both technical mastery and interpretive depth. She presents herself in conventional dress and hairstyle. Her gaze, though, is direct and detached, even skeptical—the opposite of demure. Rumors circulated about the unconventional princess.
8 de abr. de 2019 · While in London, the young man had two brushes with the law. The first was when he lived in Arthur Street in Chelsea. In the Royal Oak in Westminster, after too much drink, he pointed a loaded pistol at an artist named Alfred Simpson. He was bound over to be of good behaviour and keep the peace.
Princess Louise was born on 18 March 1848 at Buckingham Palace, she was the fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha the Prince Consort. She was baptised with the names Louisa Caroline Alberta, Louisa was in honour of her paternal grandmother, the Prince Consort's mother, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1800-1831).
