Queen Victoria - Two Sequences of Footage

These are two rare pieces of footage of Queen Victoria.

She is starting a long tradition of using new media to be more accessible to the public, particularly important at a time when there was a rising republican sentiment in the country.

The first sequence shows her in a carriage at Balmoral in 1896, surrounded by her grandson, later George V, and various other courtiers, including Indian dignitaries or perhaps household staff.

The second shows the queen riding down Pall Mall in a carriage with perhaps the later Queen Mary and Kings George V during her Jubilee Celebrations of 1897.

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Film & Animation

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• Queen
• Victoria
• footage

[Simeon644]

damn if only they had IS on cameras then 

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Simeon644 - i must be having a dumb moment but what is 'IS'?

[Simeon644]

@nickwallacesmith Image stabilisation lol 

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Simeon644 - thanks for the enlightenment - still a lot of clouds here but now one less!

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Professor6871 - that it was not john brown has been sorted out in the comments already - and yes there were a number highlanders in Q V's staff, the likeliest candidates

[Professor6871]

The person'sdescription of his upload obviously didn't do his his home work. John Brown died in 1883 well over 13 years before this film was made of Queen Victoria. There may have been a Higlander in background seeing it was in Balmoral, but it wasn't the famous John Brown. Or is he going to claim it was the ghost of him.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Eddy2730 - my lousy maths has pout me ten years behind the times! i hope it means i could be ten years younger than my age.

[Eddy2730]

@nickwallacesmith It was actually 110 years ago that she died.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Eddy2730 - yes it's extraordinary that there's anyone still alive that's had first hand experience of queen victoria - she died 100 years ago!