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Dec 3, 2018 · We know that Queen Victoria visited the Coburg Mausoleum in 1860, which contained the mortal remains of Prince Albert’s father, Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who had died in 1844. The Queen did...
Throughout their lives together, Victoria and Albert collected and commissioned art to celebrate their relationship, family and shared history. In her enduring grief, Victoria continued this tradition, regularly commissioning new artworks and objects that memorialised Albert.
In Memoriam was written on the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. His 'Morte d'Arthur' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' are well-known. In 1850 he married Emily Sellwood (1813-1896). Their sons were Lionel and Hallam (1852-1928). Queen Victoria appointed him Poet Laureate in 1850 and in 1883 he was created Lord Tennyson.
- 1110-1538: The Abbey Flourishes and Then Dies
- ‘The Bones Thrown About’
- John Mellor Arrives on The Scene
- Bones For Ten Bob
- Community Archaeology and ’The Search For Alfred’
- The ‘Pelvis Revelation’
- Why Is King Alfred regarded as ‘Great’?
- Acknowledgements
Despite suffering from the effects of civil war, fires and the Black Death the Abbey survived for more than four hundred years. Over this time it became a place of pilgrimage not just because it held the bones of Alfred the Great but also because of its association with Saint Grimbald, Saint Josse – and even Saint Valentine. However, with the start...
The overseer of this horror was a man named Page (the Keeper of the bridewell). Ten years later Page was to provide a detailed account of what happened in the area of the Royal graves (before the altar) to a visiting antiquary, Captain Henry Howard who drew up a rough plan of the east end of the church as a record of the lay-out. Subsequently Howar...
In 1866 was published The Chronicle and Chartulary of Hyde Abbey– otherwise known as The Book of Hyde (the Liber Monasterii de Hyda) – which collected together a large number of ancient documents – ranging from copies of King Alfred’s will through to an account of Anglo-Saxon history and grants of land to New Minster – in an unprecedented way. It g...
Yet however foolish Mellor might have been, there were some people, including the Revd. William Williams of St. Bartholomew Church who were intrigued by the fact that bones from the abbey had been discovered. And, in the absence of anything but intuition, they did not discount the possibility that they might indeed be those of Alfred and his family...
Between 1995 and 1999 a community project – culminating in ‘The Search for Alfred’ – was led by the Winchester Museum Service. This ranged extensively over the whole site of Hyde Abbey (not just the abbey church) and achieved significant results in clarifying details about the abbey buildings. Amongst other important details the community project d...
Meanwhile, amongst the other bones, a startling discovery was made which established a firm connection with the Royal House of Wessex. A pelvis was identified which dated from the end of the ninth century or the years of the tenth century. This made it definitely a ‘New Minster’ bone – the first ever to be found and identified. Moreover, given its ...
ALFRED THE GREAT was a pivotal and landmark figure in English history, proving to be a towering figure in both war and peace. Born in 849, as the youngest son of King Ethelwulf, he was never expected to become king. But as his fathers and older brothers died – worn out in part by relentless battles – Alfred took on the mantle of national leader jus...
A very large number of people were involved, in one capacity or another, in the project to exhume and test the bones in the Unmarked Grave and the further investigation of other bones held by Winchester City Council. Above all, the dedication and thoroughness of Dr. Katie Tucker was exceptional. She was the ‘star’ of the show in so many respects. W...
Queen Victoria had always been convinced of Prince Albert's qualities and she now buried herself amidst memorials of him - some simple and touching, some breathtakingly extravagant and some, to modern taste, macabre.
Apr 14, 2020 · John Van der Kiste is the author of numerous books on Queen Victoria, including Queen Victoria’s Family (1982); Queen Victoria’s Children (1986); and Sons, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen Victoria’s Life (2006).
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Memorials of King Alfred. : Being Essays on the History and Antiquities of England During the Ninth Century, the Age of King Alfred, by Various Authors. John Allen Giles. B. Franklin,...
