At this point, “Victoria” was recently mentioned, one slim 25-episode series British provenance in the Arte media library. Here’s another hint: If you want to empathize with the life of a world leader by New Year’s Eve – that’s how long the culture broadcaster keeps it – you should start gradually.
For Upper Franconia, the enjoyment should be uplifting and sobering at the same time. On the one hand, the honorable term “Coburg” falls with tactful continuity, several times per episode. But if the promise could become tangible, the venue changes from London to the promised land of the Franks, you will see a building that looks something like Rosenau Castle near Coburg to Kensington Palace of the HUK Coburg headquarters.
A stab in the heart, for sure. A small one, of course. Because one thing becomes clear in the series, based on the sources: two felt a stimulating marriage. But for workers housing and research he responsible, the Coburger, Prince Albert. And for modern toilets!
That secured him a place in history (far beyond the Royal Albert Hall). And you can still visualize that in Franconia by strolling around. The Queen took care of it herself when she had a bronze statue of Albert placed in Cobury City for the deceased husband, which even royal skeptics can hardly ignore.
But the Queen herself? Friends of the royal family visit the area from which the Windsors come to a large extent – what mainly reminded of Victoria so far? No, no joke: an abortion. The Queen entered Coburg’s Ehrenburg Palace around 1860 watercloset enthroned after the English (and her husband) model, one of the first on the continent. See here: the Queen’s toilet, very British.
But now everything is different, thanks to the privateer Werner Weiss. There was bad blood at first, when he asked the Berlin facade artist Gert Neuhaus to decorate a former candy factory with a larger-than-life Victoria & Albert & royal dachshund mural. Tenor: on a monument? Anyone could come!
In the meantime, however, mobile phone photographers are pouring in, even at night when the married couple (including the dachshund) are illuminated. And the British, well, they can now come to Coburg – and don’t have to make do with a royal water closet during the highlights of the Queen in Franconia tour.