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John Brown (8 December 1826 – 27 March 1883) was a Scottish personal attendant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years after working as a ghillie for Prince Albert.
May 27, 2024 · We know Queen Victoria was devoted to Prince Albert but did she really have an affair with a servant after his death? Julia Baird shocked historians in 2014 when she revealed new evidence she had uncovered for her Queen Victoria biography: evidence of the queen's relationship with her servant.
Dec 6, 2016 · And now we can reveal what Queen Victoria really thought about her “heart’s best treasure” – the intense friendship she shared with Scottish ghillie John Brown.
Dec 5, 2022 · Queen Victoria and John Brown: the controversial relationship between sovereign and servant. How did John Brown become Queen Victoria’s favourite Highland servant, why was he so disliked by some but admired by others, and is there any foundation to the rumours about their personal connection? John Brown (1826-83) was born near in Crathie, a ...
Oct 16, 2018 · John Brown served Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom as a ghillie at Balmoral (Scottish outdoor servant) from 1849 – 1861 and a personal attendant from 1861 – 1883. Born on December 8, 1826, in Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, John Brown was the second of eleven children of Scottish tenant farmer John Brown and his wife Margaret Leys.
Aug 29, 2014 · For more than a century, biographers have tried to fathom the improbable friendship Queen Victoria had with her Scottish servant John Brown. It has been posited as one of the great unanswered...
The Queen first mentioned Brown in her Journal on 11 September 1849, and from 1851 John Brown, at Albert's suggestion, took on the role of leading Queen Victoria's pony. In 1858, Brown became the personal ghillie (shooting guide and gun-loader) of Prince Albert.
John Brown was working at Balmoral when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert took on the estate. He was first mentioned in the Queen's journal in 1849 and from 1858 became her personal servant in...
Aug 26, 2011 · A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages surrounding her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had over her?
This portrait of Queen Victoria and John Brown, published in 1864, was Wilson’s most commercially successful image of the queen. The original version features the queen on her pony Fyvie with two of her servants – John Brown (1827–83) and John Grant (1810–79).
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