22 January 2001 - Launch of Michael Nelson’s book: Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Robert Elphick. Click here.

The Times of London published this story by the author on 21 January 2001. Click here.

The Queen looking very much askance at a fly buzzing by her head. The fly is Paul Kruger, complete with top hat. The Queen did not live to see her armies beat Kruger. The Anglo-Boer war ended on 31 May 1902, 15 months after the Queen's death.

French Postcard by Philippe Norwins around 1900. Author's Collection.

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