Across the Solent on the Isle of Wight, the village and civil parish of Whippingham and its Grade I-listed St Mildred’s Church are best known for their connections with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He reputedly helped to redesign the church, which was built, according to its Historic England listing , between 1854 and 1862 by Albert Jenkins Humbert, the architect of Sandringham House in Norfolk.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Osborne House and Barton Manor in 1845, and Whippingham village became the centre of the royal estate. The Queen took a close interest in ‘her people’ in Whippingham and the farms, school, almshouses and cottages were rebuilt when they became a part of the Osborne estate. St Mildred's has long been at the heart of the community, and now the third-fine

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