Diamond Jubilee: Queen Victoria archive goes online

Rarely-seen documents from the life and reign of Queen Victoria have been made public on a new website marking her own Diamond Jubilee.

Called Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook, the website also features audio and film clips from 1897, when she celebrated the 60th year of her reign.

It comes in the year Queen Elizabeth II marks her Diamond Jubilee.

The BBC's Luisa Baldini reports.

B&W footage courtesy British Pathe

Still images courtesy Royal Collection Trust/ © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012

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