Across
1 Useful harbour near the Red Sea acquired by Britain (4)
3 Rank of Crown Prince Rudolf’s teenage mistress (8)
8 The oyster was a favourite (7)
10 She was Albert’s (5)
11 Lab equipment devised by a German chemist (6,6)
13 Cavalry weapons (6)
15 The French were at Sedan by the Prussians (6)
17 Wilde wrote a ballad after he had been (10)
21 She changed her’s after Albert’s death (5)
22 Quite common occurrence – Lucknow and Ladysmith, for example (5)
23 Dreyfus was accused of it (7)
24 Slang term for where Wilde served his sentence (4)

Down
1 Aldershot or Woolwich, for example (4,4)
2 ……. Terry, drama queen (5)
4 Where it ended on the Isle of Wight (7,5)
5 Epithet applied sarcastically to certain important figures of the age such as Florence Nightingale and Thomas Arnold (7)
6 Dizzy bought a stake in this canal (4)
7 Her title after 1876 (5,7)
9 Cause of a war between Spain and the USA (4)
12 A refreshing feature of Dickens – ‘The Three Cripples’ or ‘ The George and Vulture’, for example (3)
14 It was the Light one that charged (7)
16 Parliamentary tower designed by Pugin (3,3)
18 The Diamond Jubilee was a major one of her reign (5)
19 Item of clothing given a boost by Victoria and Albert (4)
20 The British lion and the Russian one fought for influence in Central Asia in the Great Game (4)

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