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Merry Christmas darlings! 💖🎄🎁☃️

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Happy Christmas

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Christmas Carol, 1867

Hanging the Mistletoe, 1860

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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert skating at Frogmore (print c.1880-1900)

We drove down to Frogmore & Albert pushed me in a sledge chair on the ice, which was delightful, & it went with such rapidity. I had never been on the ice before. I then walked up & down, whilst Albert & the others skated; & I watched them playing hockey. He had a fall but got up directly again. We came home at 2 & lunched at once.

- Queen Victoria’s journals, 30th December 1840

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A Christmas Waltz

“It’s that time of year when the world falls in love…” 

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“Children Dreaming of Toys”, frontispiece of A Christmas Tree Fairy, pub. 1886 by Lizzie Mack, 1886.

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PRINCE ALBERT AND QUEEN VICTORIA MADE CHRISTMAS TREES FASHIONABLE: The tradition of the Christmas tree came from Germany, and there are accounts of early 19th century Christmas trees in America. But the custom wasn’t widespread outside German communities. The Christmas tree first gained popularity in British and American society thanks to the husband of Queen Victoria, the German-born Prince Albert. He installed a decorated Christmas tree at Windsor Castle in 1841, and woodcut illustrations of the Royal Family’s tree appeared in London magazines in 1848. Those illustrations, published in America a year later, created the fashionable impression of the Christmas tree in upper class homes.

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Sweet Victorian Christmas graphic

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*Winter Wonderland*