Osborne House, Isle of Wight
As her young family increased, Victoria was desperate for ‘a place of one's own, quiet and retired’ away from court ceremonial. Rejecting Brighton but recollecting visits to the Isle of Wight in her youth, she rented Osborne House, near Cowes, for a trial year before purchasing house and estate from Lady Blachford in ... ...
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