Alexandra of Denmark, pose solemnly for the portrait, while Edward's mother Queen Victoria is sat in front of them wearing her crepe silk black mourning dress, facing a bust of Prince Albert on a ...

Queen Victoria’s mourning dress tended by a Museum of London conservator. Source: The Telegraph Woman in deep mourning attire, photographed by H.G. Hudson, ca. 1880-90.

This black mourning dress of Queen Victoria from the Fashion Museum takes us back to a period in Bath's life that saw the founding of the Victoria Art Gallery in 1897. Royal Victoria Park had ...