Princess Victoria (the future Queen Victoria aged two) with her mother the Duchess of Kent in 1821


Illustration from Queen Victoria by Richard Holmes, published in 1897 on Japanese paper by Boussod, Valadon & Co as a limited edition of 350. After the painting by Sir William Beechey (1753-1839). Her father Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, had died the year before and the young Victoria is holding a miniature of him. Her mother is still wearing mourning dress.


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