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2. Juni 2023 · Königin Victoria und ihr Lieblingsdiener John Brown Kaum einer ist so berüchtigt für seine alkoholischen Exzesse wie Victorias Lieblingsdiener John Brown. Der ist sieben Jahre jünger und noch aus dem Personalstamm des Vorbesitzers übernommen. Manchmal liegt er schon nachmittags betrunken und dienstunfähig in seinem Zimmer. Und er ist ...
RCIN 2149209. This portrait of Queen Victoria and John Brown, published in 1864, was Wilson’s most commercially successful image of the queen. The original version features the queen on her pony Fyvie with two of her servants – John Brown (1827–83) and John Grant (1810–79). It was taken to mark the second anniversary of the ‘Great ...
This portrait of John Brown’s parents was taken outside their farm near Crathie. On the left stands John Brown Snr (1791–1875), the father of John Brown, Queen Victoria’s personal attendant. His mother Margaret (née Leys) (c.1800–76), whom Queen Victoria described as ‘a big stout woman’, is seated on the right wearing a white bonnet. The woman standing in the middle may possibly ...
16. Okt. 2018 · John Brown served Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom as a ghillie at Balmoral (Scottish outdoor servant) from 1849 – 1861 and a personal attendant from 1861 – 1883. Born on December 8, 1826, in Crathie, Aberdeenshire , Scotland, John Brown was the second of eleven children of Scottish tenant farmer John Brown and his wife Margaret Leys.
This portrait of John Brown’s parents was taken outside their farm near Crathie. On the left stands John Brown Snr (1791–1875), the father of John Brown, Queen Victoria’s personal attendant. His mother Margaret (née Leys) (c.1800–76), whom Queen Victoria described as ‘a big stout woman’, is seated on the right wearing a white bonnet. The woman standing in the middle may possibly ...
John Brown was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and worked on the Balmoral Estate before it was leased to Victoria and Albert. In 1851 John Brown, at Albert’s suggestion, took on the role of leading Queen Victoria’s pony, later became the personal ghillie (shooting guide and gun-loader) for Prince Albert. After Albert’s death in 1861 the ...
The Queen's confidence was rewarded when Brown saved her from an assassination attempt, after which he was vaunted as a public hero. The author reveals the names of republicans and disaffected courtiers who related gossip about Queen Victoria and John Brown and their purported marriage and child, and identifies those who plotted to have Brown ...
