I Am Sure We Have All Heard Of Queen Victoria,

but what I did not know was that in Her private journals she was a artist, 

image Hulton Archive/Getty Images, for more about her have a look here, but it is the paintings and sketches that I am more interested in, and here are some of them, I should point out that the links I normally make are in blue, but for some reason today I cannot change the colour of them so some may be in orange, the links still work, but in another colour, 

Journal Illustration- Friday 13th June 1851 Prince Albert, Queen Victoria and Prince Charles of Leiningen [?] in their costumes for the Stuart Ball- watercolour by Queen Victoria,

Sketchbook Illustration- 17 August 1831 A young girl standing next to a spring. Watercolour, by Princess Victoria, after Richard Westall,

Journal Illustration- Saturday 1st January 1848 Queen Victoria’s 5 children dressed as Coburg and Thüringen peasants- pen and ink sketch by Queen Victoria,

Journal Illustration- Tuesday 6th January 1852 Queen Victoria’s children in costume for a Twelfth Night performance- ink and watercolour sketch by Queen Victoria, for more illustrations from this remarkable Queen, have a look here, also,

•              Queen Victoria’s Journals — online site maintained by the Bodleian Libraries and the Royal Archives.

•             Royal Archives — official website of the British monarchy.

•             Extracts from Victoria’s diaries