A Luxurious Journey on Queen Victoria's Royal Yacht To the Scottish Highlands | History for Sleep

In the last untroubled summers of their lives, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children sailed north each year aboard a black-hulled royal yacht, leaving the south coast of England behind and heading for the sea lochs of the Scottish Highlands. This is the world of that voyage - a vessel that was at once a floating palace and a working Royal Navy ship. This slow journey follows the royal yacht up the whole western edge of Britain, lingering on the life of the ship - the polished decks and private apartments below, the paddle-wheels beating at her sides, the naval crew going about their work, and the quiet rhythm of days and evenings at sea in the Victorian age. Calm, unhurried, and full of forgotten detail. A world that existed for only a few decades, and has never quite been described like this.