Images Dated 1st March 2019

Queen Victoria in Nice - French satire on her donkey cart

Queen Victoria in Nice, France - a rather (!) disrespectful late 19th century French satirical caricature. In 1882, Queen Victoria began her winter affair with the Cote dAzur, she would arrive bearing extensive food and drink supplies, a multitude of staff, Highland soldiers and Abdul Karim, her Indian attendant (highly unpopular with all bar the queen herself). The queen would ride out frequently, either in a carriage or a cart pulled by 'Jacquot', a donkey she had rescued, half-starved, from a peasant (as lampooned on this card) and which she subsequently took back and forth to England with her. (Jacquot lived out his life at Windsor, after Victorias death.). Date: circa 1890s

Fair Maid of Kent - The Black Prince's Chantry, Canterbury

Joan of Kent ), known as 'The Fair Maid of Kent' - the mother of King Richard II of England - ceiling boss in the Huguenot Chapel (Black Prince's Chantry), Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. The Black Princes Chantry was set up at the time of his marriage to Joan of Kent. In 1575, the Crypt was given over to Huguenot refugees from France and Flanders on order of Queen Elizabeth I. Some 300 years later, the Crypt was taken back, but the Chantry remained at the disposal of the Huguenot community and to this day, a French Service is held here every Sunday at 3pm. Date: circa 1910s

Great Orme - North Wales

The Great Orme (Welsh: Y Gogarth) - a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, above the town of Llandudno. Referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, its English name derives from the Old Norse word for sea serpent. Date: circa 1920s

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