London, UK; May 2009 / 19th century
Discovered – a rare colour photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Orangery in Kensington Gardens in London. Since colour photography didn’t exist in the Victorian era, this clearly proves the existence of time travel. Maybe the Doctor and his TARDIS had something to do with it.
Or maybe it’s just two people in costume, at the opening party of the FIPP World Magazine Congress in London last year.
It was a great location for a party with a marquee set up outside the Orangery tea rooms. We also had a marching band and Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn made an appearance. Kensington Palace itself was open so we could tour the state rooms and see the fascinating Last Debutantes exhibition about the Debutante tradition and the last batch presented to the Queen in 1958.
Oh look, I even managed to get in one of the photos with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert!
More photos from the event. The closing party at the Saatchi Gallery was pretty cool too – see my husband and I eating canapes from a designer bubble chair in this picture.
This post is part of Photo Friday, a weekly blogging event hosted by Debbie Dubrow of DeliciousBaby Journal. Please check out all the other posts this week. The photo with me in it was taken by Sheelagh Doyle.
… Or maybe it’s two people in costume! I love it. I, myself would have enjoyed seeing Anne Boleyn at this event as she has always been a favourite of mine!
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Meeting Anne Boleyn was definitely fun – I thought about taking her aside and warning her to run away to France but Henry was hovering. I don’t seem to have photos of that – my lens jammed – but the event website might have some pics.
Mad King George?! That might have been fun…
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I’m sort of relieved it was a great costume party instead of time travel discovered — I have a hard enough time narrowing down travel destinations without also planning what era. Great post — thanks for sharing!
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Hope you got the inside secrets from Queen Victoria about what it was like growing up at Kensington Palace. Sadly the Debutante’s exhibition was closed when we visited although I did try the Debutante’s tea at the Orangery. Portions were rather small but then those Debs had to watch their figures!
That Prince Albert guy looks very dapper in his period attire!
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