After Albert's death in 1861 (aged 42), Queen Victoria increasingly spent more of her time at Balmoral, famously befriending her gillie John Brown. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, Balmoral ...

When in June 1850 Pate chanced upon the Queen in Piccadilly ... Assassin and monarch came face to face, but Victoria was saved by the quick thinking of John Brown, Prince Arthur and her Palace ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy ... She became very close to John Brown, a servant at Balmoral Castle, even though her children resented him. Victoria was called ‘Mrs ...