Queen Victoria's Mourning Albums

a short post in honor of Queen Elizabeth's death

When I think of Balmoral, I think of a different Queen. I think of a different death. I think of Queen Victoria, bereft at the loss of Prince Albert in 1861. Queen Victoria did much of her mourning in Balmoral — the Scottish castle where Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday.

Queen Victoria was known for her extreme practices of mourning — she would wear bl…