Henry and Mary Ponsonby: life at the court of Queen Victoria

This is the story of Henry and Mary Ponsonby, two of the most important courtiers who attended Queen Victoria.

Both came from proud but impoverished families who relied on their salaries from serving the queen to survive.

They met and married at court. They raised their family in Windsor Castle. They lived and died in the corridors where prime ministers and princesses passed as they went back and forth to see the queen.