Would queen victoria allow a photo of herself to be shown in a magazine?

Question:im doing a project where i have to create a magazine about the victorian era. it has to be realistic of the time period. would she allow a picture of herself to be in it? after her husband died?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: im doing a project where i have to create a magazine about the victorian era. it has to be realistic of the time period. would she allow a picture of herself to be in it? after her husband died?

I don't think she would object. Pictures of Queen victoria were in wide circulation during her reign, and she was photographed many times. Photographs were appearing in magazines by the end of her reign, so it would be authentic to have them in your magazine. In 'queen Victoria Was Amused' Alan Hardy writes:

'She and Albert had been keen photographers from very early days. Again Victoria retained her nethusiasm into her old age. In the 1890s she took part in some of the earliest 'moving pictures'. "We were all photographed by Downey by the new cinematograph process, which makes moving pictures by winding off a reel of film" she wrote at Balmoral. Two months later she attended what must have been the first royal film performance, "where so-called animated pictures were shown off". She was most impressed; "It is a very wonderful process, representing people, their movements, and actions as if they were alive.". '

Of course. There's plenty of pictures of the Queen and even films. As long as the magasine follows her own strict puritan rules that is.

Photographs of Queen Victoria's public appearances were regularly published in the popular press of the day, such as the Illustrated London News. She had no power to prevent herself being photographed when she appeared in public, nor any authority to control where and when these photographs were published. Of course, if she were to set up a photo-opportunity in her private life, she would be able to make conditions restricting use of those photographs (like anybody else setting up a photo-opportunity) .

How would she stop you?