PAGE 1 | Explore VICTORIA’S ISLAND | HERITAGE TRAIL visitisleofwight.co.uk VICTORIA’SExplore ISLAND Heritage Trail When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert chose the Isle of Wight as their favourite holiday spot in the 1840s, little did they know they’d be changing the destiny of a compact and stunningly beautiful Island forever. The creati on of their family holiday home at 1890s, will feature in a new fi lm ‘Victoria and Osborne brought a new status to the Isle of Abdul’ in cinemas September 15 and the next Wight. Not only was the Isle of Wight the place ITV series of ‘Victoria’ will end with the Queen where the family relaxed in private, it was and her husband buying the house that will also the locati on where aff airs of state were become their “beloved Osborne”. managed. Queen Victoria ruled her worldwide empire from the tranquillity of her seaside palace When on the Island, the royals enjoyed many on the Isle of Wight, entertaining foreign royalty of the pleasures we consider to be modern day and visiti ng ministers. holiday acti viti es: dining al fresco, swimming in the sea, visiti ng local att racti ons and simply Stays on the Isle of Wight refl ected Queen taking ti me out from busy mainland life. Victoria’s private life as well as that of her role as Let the Victoria’s Island Trail take you on a Head of Empire. Visits with family and friends to journey across the Isle of Wight. You will visit local scenic spots were paired with the creati on some of the places the Queen loved alongside of state rooms for formal visits at Osborne. lesser known locati ons that reveal the strong connecti on that the royal family had with the The Durbar Room, designed and installed by Island; both as off duty, private people and as Lockwood Kipling and Bhai Ram Singh in the heads of state. IN CINEMAS SEPTEMBER 15 he extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to parti cipate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to fi nd favour with the Queen herself. As the Queen questi ons the constricti ons of her long-held positi on, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all att empt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity. BASED ON AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY EXPLORE THE RICH CONNECTIONS BETWEEN QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE ISLAND visiti sleofwight.co.uk PAGE 2 PAGE | 8 13 Explore Explore 1 VICTORIA’S Cowes 2 5 East Cowes Gurnard ISLAND VICTORIA’S B 3 3 ISLAND Rew Street 2 Whippingham RYDE 12 PIER HEAD RYDE Northwood ESPLANADE A 3 0 2 Fishbourne Marks A 1 Corner 3 0 2 A 3 0 5 4 Ryde 0 Quarr Hill Binstead RYDE Wootton ST JOHN’S ROAD Spring Vale Bridge Seaview WOOTTON Porchfield Wootton Hamstead Common Newtown Parkhurst Nettlestone SMALLBROOK B 3 3 JUNCTION 4 0 Havenstreet | HERITAGE TRAIL HERITAGE Cranmore HAVENSTREET A 3 0 5 4 Norton Bouldnor 11 Ashey Yarmouth Shalfleet A 3 0 5 St Helens Cliff End Ningwood Newport 4 5 0 ASHEY B 3 3 3 A 3 0 5 Norton Thorley Thorley Street 3 Green B 3 3 Bembridge B Carisbrooke 9 0 3 4 0 1 Wellow 1 Shide B 3 4 0 Downend Five Houses Brading 9 5 Newbridge 3 3 B A 3 0 5 5 Freshwater BRADING Bowcombe Calbourne Arreton Totland 10 Blackwater Morton B 3 1 3 9 4 0 Middleton 9 B 3 Adgestone Afton Langbridge 2 2 3 Alverstone Yaverland B 3 Freshwater Bay B 3 3 2 Newchurch Chessell Horringford 4 3 Gatcombe Merstone 3 3 9 5 B SANDOWN A Rookley 3 0 5 6 Winford Hulverstone Sandown Brook LAKE Mottistone Chillerton Lake Apse Heath Moortown A 3 0 2 0 Shorwell Brighstone Limerstone B 3 3 9 9 Sandford SHANKLIN Yafford Godshill Whiteley Bank Thorncross Shanklin Upper Hyde 6 A 3 0 5 5 Roud Luccombe Chale Green Wroxall Atherfield Green B 3 B 3 2 7 3 3 Southford 9 9 7 Bonchurch Kingates Whitwell Chale 9 5 Ventnor visitisleofwight.co.uk View the interacti ve version Niton Blackgang of this map at St Lawrence A 3 0 5 5 visiti sleofwight.co.uk PAGE 3 | Explore VICTORIA’S ISLAND | HERITAGE TRAIL visitisleofwight.co.uk 1. Osborne, East Cowes | PO32 6JX 5. Blackgang Chine | PO38 2HN Designed by Prince Albert in an Blackgang Chine received the Italianate style, Osborne was royal seal of approval when the much-loved seaside home of Queen Victoria visited in August Queen Victoria, her husband and 1853 to see the skeleton of the their nine children. Osborne was whale that had washed up near a regal dwelling but also very the Needles – it was Blackgang much a private family home. It Chine’s very fi rst att racti on and refl ected the royal family’s personal taste as well as the needs of is sti ll on view today. the monarch. blackgangchine.com Long holidays at Osborne gave the family much valued ti me together; swimming, breakfasti ng al fresco and gardening in the PO37 6BW grounds, as well as the chance to take excursions across the Isle 6. Shanklin Chine | of Wight. First open to the public in 1817, Princess Victoria visited english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/osborne Shanklin Chine aged 14 in 1833 with her mother. Entry 2. St Mildred’s Church, Whippingham was via Fisherman’s Cott age (open as a pub today) where PO32 6HR local fi sherman and smuggler Just a short carriage ride from William Colenutt charged an Osborne, St Mildred’s Church, entrance fee. According to local legend, the then Princess Whippingham was redesigned Victoria helped herself to a prawn on the way in! by Prince Albert and rebuilt Queen Victoria conti nued to visit Shanklin Chine regularly when in a style considered to be in residence on the Island. more suitable for the royal family. The family worshipped shanklinchine.co.uk at St Mildred’s and Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter Princess Beatrice and her husband were married and buried PO38 1JJ here. View the permanent exhibiti on of royal memorabilia 7. The Royal Hotel, Ventnor | including a replica of Princess Beatrice’s wedding dress. “Nothing along the south coast will bear comparison with it”. iow.uk.com/whippingham-church In Victorian ti mes Ventnor became a fashionable holiday PO30 1XY 3. Carisbrooke Castle | resort, partly because Sir James A royal prison in the Civil War of Clark, Queen Victoria’s surgeon, 1642 – 1651, part of Carisbrooke recommended the health-giving properti es of Ventnor’s climate. was used as a residence by The Ventnor Hotel was re-named The Royal Hotel aft er Queen Princess Beatrice from 1912 Victoria visited and endorsed it for aft ernoon tea in 1855. You onwards. Aft er the death of can sti ll enjoy aft ernoon tea at the Royal Hotel today. her husband in 1896, she was appointed Governor of the Isle royalhoteliow.co.uk of Wight, and lived with Queen Victoria at Osborne. Princess Beatrice made many changes to Carisbrooke Castle, 8. Egypt Point, Cowes | PO31 8BP including creati ng a museum of local history as a memorial to her The coastal viewpoint between husband and commissioning an altar painti ng for the chapel to Cowes and Gurnard was one commemorate the death of her son at Ypres in 1914. of Queen Victoria’s favourite english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/carisbrooke-castle places. The Queen had an irresisti bly romanti c nature and it was from here that she enjoyed PO39 OJD 4. The Needles | the magnifi cent sunsets and a The Marconi Monument at The panoramic view of the Solent which people sti ll love today. Needles Landmark Att racti on cowes.co.uk commemorates the spot where Guglielmo Marconi set up his revoluti onary wireless equipment and sent the very fi rst wireless transmission. WIN A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER In August 1898, Queen Victoria was said to be “delighted” when Marconi, summoned to Osborne House, went AT KEATS COTTAGE, SHANKLIN on to establish radio communicati on between Queen Prize includes 3 nights dinner, bed & breakfast plus ferry travel. Victoria at Osborne and the Prince of Wales (later Edward Find out more and enter the competi ti on at VII) who was onboard the Royal Yacht “Osborne”. visiti sleofwight.co.uk/keatschristmas theneedles.co.uk COMPETITION CLOSES 31ST OCTOBER 2017 PAGE 4 | Explore VICTORIA’S ISLAND | HERITAGE TRAIL visitisleofwight.co.uk 9. Ventnor Botanic Garden | PO38 1UL The Royal Nati onal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, was founded in 1868 in the Victorian heyday of ‘taking the cure’ at the seaside. It is now Ventnor Botanic Garden and home to some very notable Victorian specimens. The Chusan palms Trachycarpus fortunei at Ventnor Botanic Gardens are the oldest palms in the Briti sh Isles. They were collected in the 19th Century and presented to Queen Victoria who said they should be planted in the grounds of the hospital. They remain in exactly the same spot today. botanic.co.uk 10. Farringford, Freshwater | PO40 9PE The Isle of Wight retreat of Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Farringford was the centre of the Freshwater Circle group of writers, arti sts and intellectuals.