The London Illustrated News created quite a stir in the run up to Christmas 1848 when it published an engraving drawn by J.L Williams of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with their children gathered around their spectacular Christmas tree at Windsor Castle. Being quite the ‘influencer’ of her time Victoria is credited with sparking the trend of having a decorated Christmas inside the home as we know it today (although technically it was the Prince who was largely responsible for the tree tradition as the Germanic people had been doing it for centuries!) I fell in love with this image the moment I saw it and knew I…