GUEST: It is the Ascot trophy, which was a gift of Her Majesty, which I'm assuming was Queen Victoria, from 1857. It's been in my family for four generations.

A timeline of Queen Victoria's life: The Queen who restored the reputation of the British ... She also awarded the first Victoria Crosses personally to 62 men at a ceremony at Hyde Park in 1857.

Queen Victoria was particularly protective of her youngest child Princess Beatrice, ... Prince Consort, and grandmother Victoria, Duchess of Kent, in April 1857.

The railway and pier were used for the Queen's frequent visits to the hospital and she awarded three Victoria Crosses to patients there. On August 21, 1857, while staying at Osborne House, the ...