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- Fact or Fiction: Victoria and Albert really got lost in the Scottish Highlands during their trip. Fact: They did. I took that from another Scottish episode, where they did get lost, and they did stop at a crofter’s cottage. And they didn’t know who they were! They didn’t spend the night, but it is based on a real incident.
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Did Victoria and Albert get lost in the Scottish Highlands – and stay in a poor couple's cottage? No. Or if they did, she certainly never mentioned it in her journal.
- Eleanor Bley Griffiths
May 26, 2024 · It was during Queen Victoria and Prince Albert‘s first visit to the Highlands in 1842 that they fell in love with the region‘s wild beauty and decided to acquire a property there. In 1848, they leased Balmoral from the Farquharsons, and in 1852, Prince Albert purchased the estate outright for £32,000 (equivalent to around £4 million today).
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As Victoria and Albert ride down the Mall in their open carriage, she exclaims how lovely it is to be out and about. Jinx! Just then, someone steps out from the crowd and points a pistol at them. Albert quickly pushes Victoria out of harm’s way and Lord Alfred orders the carriage to take off. Alfred searches for the would-be assassin, but he has di...
Ernie sees Harriet sitting alone sketching and offers his condolences. Why he didn’t give her his condolences last week when she came to the doorway of the music room as he played the piano, I don’t know. But whatever, he gives her his condolences now. Or tries to. She doesn’t want to hear it, saying “condolences” is an ugly word. In fact, she pret...
Lehzen comes upon Victoria enjoying a good book; she was re-reading an old childhood favorite, Waverley, and she and Lehzen reminisce about how, when she was little, she loved Bonnie Prince Charlie and had begged Lehzen to take her to visit Scotland (where the book is partially set and where she thought she’d find the key to happiness). Then sudden...
The royal party is welcomed to Blair Atholl castle in the Highlands, though initially the reality of Scotland doesn’t live up to the Waverley fantasy. For starters, bagpipes follow them everywhere they go. And if that weren’t bad enough, their host, the Duke of Atholl, has a dreary sense of occasion. On the plus side however, at Victoria’s disposal...
It’s vacation day #2 and Victoria and Albert are awakened by beastly bagpipes. When they emerge from their bedroom, the Duke is waiting right outside the door. He has a full day of riveting entertainment planned, inspecting factories and such. Tempting though it may have been, Victoria turns down her host’s offer, saying she and Albert would rather...
On the way to Scotland Miss Coke congratulates Drummond on his impending nuptials. It turns out she grew up with his fiancé, Florence. He looks less enthusiastic about the wedding than she does but, under questioning, does admit Florence is “quite amiable,” which gets him a teasing from Ernie. It is only alone with Alfred that Drummond frets about ...
Victoria and Albert finally come upon a little farm house and knock on the door asking for help. The elderly man tells them they better come in. The only way they’re getting back to Blair Atholl tonight is in a coffin. I don’t know about you, but if I’d heard that line from a stranger answering the door, I would have taken my chances outside in the...
After dinner Mrs. Crofter teaches Victoria how to darn a sock and she is very proud of her handiwork, deemed marvelous by Albert. He in turn enjoys stoking the fire, a task usually performed by the lowliest servant in the palace. The Crofters offer their guests their own bed for the night while they bunk in with the horses. THAT, ladies and gentlem...
Meanwhile back at the ranch, poor Lord Atholl is aging rapidly. He is upset at the thought that he will go down in history as the guy responsible for losing the queen. In his defense though, Victoria is so tiny it was inevitable that she would get lost eventually. And Scotland is a big place. It would have actually been more embarrassing if she had...
The Duchess of Bucchleuch rails at the incompetents who misplaced Her Majesty and insists that it never would have happened had she been there because she would have threatened to put the little queen over her knee for a spanking to make her behave, and now she and Albert are both (probably) at the bottom of a glen with broken necks. (Not helping!)...
- Deborah Gilbert
Jun 3, 2019 · Queen Victoria first visited the country with Prince Albert in 1842, enjoying not only its oatmeal porridge but its spectacular fresh landscapes, which captivated them both and inspired a rich...
Feb 9, 2022 · Queen Victoria published her first Highland memoir in 1867, a sentimental narrative of royal life dedicated to Prince Albert entitled Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. In response to the popularity of this edition, the publisher Smith, Elder and Co. released a lavishly illustrated edition in late 1868 to capitalize on the ...
Jun 24, 2019 · While in the Highlands, Victoria and Albert sneak away more than they planned when they wander off the trail and into an anonymous hideaway with a Scottish crofter and his wife.
