Grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ebersdorf, who were parents both of Albert's father Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and of Victoria's mother (and Ernest I's sister), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Duke Francis & Countess Augusta → Duke Ernest I → Prince Albert<br> Duke Francis & Countess Augusta → Princess Victoria → Queen Victoria Another of Victoria's (but not Albert's) grandfathers was King George III, father of Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, and his brothers King George IV and King William IV. Queen Victoria (who had ascended to the throne on 20 June 1837 and been crowned on 28 June 1838) was married
Queen Victoria Building through its aesthetics, the scale of the planning strategies of the City Architect during the late 19th Century. It is significant as the site of the city library from 1933 to 1987, and of a range of many other uses including council offices. Saved from demolition in the 1980s and restored to its original glory, the Queen Victoria Building is an iconic heritage building of Sydney and Australia. It is a significant adaptive reuse project for the 1980's, representing an important shift in heritage consciousness of the 1980's towards an "historicist" approach to refurbishment and an early example of a