When her grandmother died, Katharine Love and her mother turned this 19th-century home in Auckland Park into a museum to live in.
Victoria Rules
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A 19th-century house in Johannesburg is chocked full of toys, furniture and the brooding style of South Africa's ruling upperclass when Britain's Queen Victoria ruled. Photo by Darren Taylor.
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Victorian hosts entertained in a gloomy drawing room crowded with elaborately patterned wooden chairs, thick carpets, massive mirrors rimmed with gold, sparkling silver cutlery and polished ebony tables. Photo by Darren Taylor.
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Love lives the Victorian life in her 22-room mansion. She cooks Victorian recipes without a microwave oven and sleeps in a teak four-poster bed. Photo by Darren Taylor.
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Stern and uncompromising portraits of Victoria Regina hang in many of the rooms of Lindfield House. Photo by Darren Taylor.