Advent Calendar December 10

Handmade Presents

The future Queen Victoria wrote in her diary on Christmas Eve, 1832:

Mamma gave me a lovely pink bag which she had worked with a little sachet likewise done by her… Aunt Sophia gave me a dress which she worked herself…Victoire a very pretty white bag worked by herself and Sir John a silver brush…We then went to my room where I had arranged Mamma’s table. I gave Mamma a white bag which I had worked, a collar and a steel chain for Flora and an annual…

If you also like presents crafted by hand*, come to the Open Afternoon at The Regency Town House in Brunswick Square, Hove on Saturday December 14. It is open from 1pm to 5pm and entry is free. There will also be a wonderful Regency tea room (with homemade cake naturally) , historic costumes to dress up in for the perfect selfie, games and stories for children and a 200 year old house to roam around. Mrs Finnegan will be in attendance in the kitchen.

Oh, and you can bring your dog too!

• We are all out of bags hand-sewed by princesses though.