Getting Dressed – Prince Albert 1848

Prince Albert prepares for Christmas Eve in 1848

Joshua Gould (Prince Albert) and Faye Caddick (Queen Victoria), photographed by Liv Free at Normanby Hall in Lincolnshire. Costumes by Pauline Loven.


The scene we depicted was based an image found the Illustrated London News of 1848:

Illustrated London News 1848

A short documentary about some of the research that went into recreating a scene of Queen Victoria’s family and their children’s Christmas tree in 1848: