Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2009 | Page 7

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FOREWORD

Roll up for royal family
fun at Osborne house
and gardens
Sunday 16 - Tuesday 18 August 2009
Queen Victoria will definitely be amused

maid and try out

when she presides over three days of

everything from

traditional Victorian family fun on the

quoits and skittles

sweeping lawns of Osborne House from

to fox-bobbin

Sunday 16 to Tuesday 18 August.

skipping ropes,

Accompanied by Prince Albert and

before joining Mr

attended by her lady in waiting, a

Bramble the gardener on a search for

youthful queen will re-visit her favourite

fairies.

home from 10am-5pm each day to
re-create the 1850s.

Grown-ups may be more amused by a
risque look at the Queen as she is dressed

There will be a host of activities for

from corset to coronet in the fashion

visitors to watch – and take part in –

of the day or to find out all about a

covering everyth