"It's very rare to see her smiling. She doesn't in any of her portraits, so it humanizes her, I think, for the first time." Dixon added: "Queen Victoria was always very up-to-date with technology ...

Victoria Olsen last wrote for the magazine on Cindy Sherman’s self-portraits. Among the 20,000-odd prints Frances Benjamin Johnston donated to the Library of Congress in 1947 are two self-portraits.

and Queen Victoria Eugenie’s diamond earrings and the Diamond Rivière from the Joyas de Pasar, per The Royal Watcher. Meanwhile, the King was dressed in a military uniform for the portrait ...