Victoria and Victoria grey plaque

This grey commemorative plaque records: This building, formerly the "Sussex Hotel" later became the "Royal Victoria and Sussex Hotel". The coat of arms is that of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, parents of Queen Victoria, who as a child stayed here with her mother in 1834.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom was a monarch whose reign from 1837 to 1901 marked significant industrial, cultural, political, and imperial expansion; she stayed at this building in 1834 as a child with her mother, Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.