Victoria 's third season has been building ... meeting for the first time in 1850 to organize such an event. A Crystal Palace in Hyde Park housed the 100,000 exhibits that made up the fair.

That would not prove easy, even after Victoria appointed a full Royal ... christened what was formerly Albert's folly a "Crystal Palace." It caught on. The structure, and the preparations that ...

August 1852 saw the rebuilding work begin and in June 1854 Crystal Palace was re-opened in its new location by Queen Victoria. The whole building was enormous - 1,848 feet long and 408 feet wide ...

Queen Victoria was the first monarch to take up ... Prince Albert's greatest achievement, held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. The young royal couple, with their many children, embodied ...

The finished Crystal Palace earned Paxton worldwide acclaim and a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Once the exhibition had ended, the entire structure was relocated to the affluent suburb of Sydenham.

Queen Victoria knighted Paxton in 1850 not for ... This is the building that Punch dubbed the "Crystal Palace." The Crystal Palace would be 1,851 feet long, to match the year of the exhibition.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were said to have been fascinated by the dinosaur displays in Crystal Palace and had visited the site several times. The BBC is not responsible for the content of ...

The Victoria Cross (L) of Donald Bell, who played for Crystal Palace, Newcastle United and ... 1854, that the Queen, Victoria, should create a medal: “an order of merit for distinguished and ...