Using Queen Victoria's own diaries, and other first hand accounts of her visits, we discover the extraordinary preparations that were undertaken for a royal visit. Food historian and chef, Ivan Day, joins Rosemary to recreate some of the amazing dishes that would have been cooked for the Queen.
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Royal Upstairs Downstairs: Shugborough
Tim reveals how Victoria was kept under 24 hour surveillance by her mother the Duchess of Kent - such was her paranoia that something untoward would happen to her. The sleeping arrangements while at Shugborough back this up. Victoria slept in the same bedroom as her mother, most likely in the sam...
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Royal Upstairs Downstairs: Harewood
Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire in 1835, two years before she became Queen, and four years after having learnt that she would inherit the throne. The teenage Victoria appears to have become increasingly hard to please as she grew quite used to the royal high-life.
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Royal Upstairs Downstairs: Holkham
At the stunning Holkham Hall on the Norfolk coast we follow in the footsteps of so many royal visitors. Rosemary discovers that the kitchen was a sacred place and only those actually involved in the cooking would have been allowed to cross the threshold.
