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Victoria and Albert are greeted having arrived at St Pierre, Guernsey, with crowds lining the harbour
Victoria and Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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Exhibition Features

Click on a heading below to read short curatorial essays on various subjects related to the watercolours in this exhibition.

Photograph of a three-quarters length portrait of William Leighton Leitch facing the viewer, wearing a long jacket and hat, sitting in front of an easel. A paint palette rests on his left arm and he holds a paintbrush in his right hand
William Leighton Leitch

The artistic relationship between Queen Victoria and her 'kind old drawing master'

A watercolour view of Carn Lochan overlooking the River Isla with a royal group and attendants on the left; Prince Albert leads Queen Victoria's pony; Prince Louis of Hesse stands beside his fiancé Princess Alice's pony and a guide leads
'Dear dear Great Expeditions'

The royal couple's secret Highland wanderlust

A watercolour depicting the completion of a cairn built to mark Victoria and Albert's acquisition of Balmoral,bsurrounded by people cheering and with servants serving refreshments. Signed, dated and inscribed at bottom: 'One Cheer more! Balmoral. 12 Oct.
At Home in the Highlands

Victoria and Albert's 'dear Highland home' and affection for Scotland
A Royal Bedroom

Family ties in a personal space
Queen Victoria and the Crimean War

The royal couple visited soldiers in military hospitals

A watercolour drawing of the theatre at the chateau of Versailles used for supper during the ball on 25 August 1855. The royal and imperial party are seated in the royal box of Marie-Antoinette, under a green banner and the imperial eagle. The theatre is
Victorian Fashion

‘Quite one of the finest & most brilliant sights we ever witnessed’: dressing for the ball at Versailles
In Search of the Picturesque

Nineteenth-century tourism in Scotland

The Children's Fancy Ball at Buckingham Palace
Family Memories

Capturing special moments with watercolour and photography

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