Ironically, Victoria notwithstanding her long reign paid a formal state visit to only one European empire, and that was to the one with which she had no family connections, the Second French Empire, which disappeared following Napoleon III’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, though she made two family visits to Berlin in 1858 while it was still the pre-imperial capital of the kingdom of Prussia and thirty years later in 1888. She continued, however, to travel throughout Europe at intervals, with her preferred destination in her later years, the Riviera, having abandoned state visits after the death of her husband in 1861.
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Queen Victoria and the European Empires, John Van Der Kiste, , 2016, hardback, £18.99, ISBN 9781781555507 (Fonthill Media0
Ironically, Victoria notwithstanding her long reign paid a formal state visit to only one European empire, and that was to the one with which she had no family connections, the Second French Empire, which disappeared following Napoleon III’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, though she made two family visits to Berlin in 1858 while it was still the pre-imperial capital of the kingdom of Prussia and thirty years later in 1888. She continued, however, to travel throughout Europe at intervals, with her preferred destination in her later years, the Riviera, having abandoned state visits after the death of her husband in 1861.
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