Great houses and great people A series of five programmes 1: Queen Victoria at Osborne Presented by Sir Hugh Casson , RDI, FRIBA with Marjorie Westbury as Queen Victoria Gabriel Woolf , Katherine Parr Osborne House , in the Isle of Wight, was built by Albert between 1845 and 1851 as a private retreat and to house his growing family. Every year Queen Victoria paid three or four visits there.
SIR HUGH CASSON sets the scene and introduces some snapshots of her life at Osborne, before Albert's death and after it. Producer RICHARD KEEN