Enjoy bursts of flowering color in a hybrid tea rose garden, rock gardens ... special moments over locally sourced dishes at the Queen Victoria Place Restaurant. Several popular area attractions ...

But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen Victoria’s court in 1887 to become a modest farmer’s wife in rural America. It was a colossal culture shock from ...

he appealed to the Queen, who told him "it would never do." Still, he went personally to the War Office, and received a staff assignment. Victoria warned him of the unhealthy climate of equatorial ...