View of statue and plinth from south west Digital image of E 15367 cn

Description View of statue and plinth from south west Digital image of E 15367 cn

Date 18/6/2001

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 769280

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 15367 CN

Scope and Content Statue of Queen Victoria, Balmoral Estate, Aberdeenshire This impressive statue of Queen Victoria, mounted on a massive granite plinth, was erected in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of her reign. The statue, in bronze, by the sculptor, Sir Edgar Boehm, stands in wooded grounds close to the River Dee opposite a bronze statue of her husband, Prince Albert, erected by the queen after his death in 1861. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) succeeded to the throne in 1837. In 1840 she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and their happy marriage produced nine children, most of whom married into other royal families of Europe. Albert was her principal trusted advisor in affairs of state, and after his death in 1861, she mourned him for the rest of her life. Victoria was considered warm-hearted and lively, conscientious, hard-working and is associated with Britain's great age of industrial and economic progress. In 1877 she became Empress of India and in her late years she was seen as the symbol of the British Empire. Her Golden Jubilee, held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her accession, was marked with great displays and public ceremonies all over the country. Colonial conferences attended by Prime Ministers of Britain's self-governing colonies were also held to mark the occasion. She died in 1901, at the close of a reign that lasted almost 64 years, the longest in British history, and at a time when the British Empire and British world power had reached their peak. The Balmoral estate was bought in 1852 by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria at their own expense as a Highland retreat from the stresses of London life. Prince Albert initiated many improvements, including the building of a new Balmoral Castle in 1853-5 that became Queen Victoria's 'dear place'. The queen's evident pleasure in the local landscape gave rise to the many statues and memorials that were built in the woods around the castle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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