Mail Online UK
Osborne House, near East Cowes, was a popular retreat for Victoria who enjoyed family breaks here, away from Windsor Castle, which she considered gloomy. Her nine children, including future King Edward VII, learned to swim in the sea and collected...
The Guardian
A view of Osborne Bay, Queen Victoria's private beach at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images All 4ft 11 of her would have worn a billowing black cotton bathing dress together with cap and she would have been...
Mail Online UK
16 July 2012 The private beach where Queen Victoria first took a swim in the sea is to be opened to the public for the first time this summer. The stretch of seafront at Osborne, the monarch's seaside home on the Isle of Wight, has never been...