The Queen in her Store-room Product:Canvas seated and in civic costume

seated and in civic costume showing robe and hat

October 20

Motor race

'Helter Skelter - or a shower on Greenwich Hill'

The Queen in her Store-room Product:Canvas seated and in civic costume'The Queen in her Store room', 1859. At this time there was an ongoing struggle between France and Austria over Italian independence as the Italian states tried to rid themselves of despotic rulers. Britain was generally supportive of the Italian struggle but very suspicious of French involvement and intentions. Napoleon fought an only partly conclusive war with Austria to help achieve Italian independence of Austrian rule of some of its regions.