Queen Victoria firing the first shot at Wimbledon, July 1860 Finish:Float frame West view of the Jerusalem

West view of the Jerusalem Chamber in Westminster Abbey

J Isabey's exhibition rooms on Pall Mall

He used decisive and brutal methods to quell the rebellions and corruption that had become endemic within the empire

the playing card the Knave of Spades

who falls in love with her) flies overhead

Queen Victoria firing the first shot at Wimbledon, July 1860 Finish:Float frame West view of the JerusalemQueen Victoria firing the first shot at Wimbledon, July 1860, (c1920). The queen opens the first meeting of the National Rifle Association by firing the first shot from a Whitworth rifle. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s).