Where did Queen Victoria live?

HM Queen Victoria by all accounts found country life to be most amiable delighting in home, hearth and her often all consuming passion for Prince Albert. The Queen only maintained three principal residences. Each offering limited accessibility and heightened privacy congruent with the populaces "limited" knowledge of the royal progresses of the day. Frogmore in Windsor Great Park was handy to the capital and served as the Queens unofficial, "official" residence. Buckingham Palace was rarely used by the Queen, Prince Albert or their children. Cold, droughty and depressing, Buckingham Palace underwent myriad incarnations during much of the nineteenth century thus leaving it "most inhospitable". The royal family all preferred life in the Scottish highlands spending up to three quarters of a year at the Highland retreat; Balmoral. Privately purchased by the Queen and Prince Albert shortly after their marriage. Osbourne house on the isle of Wight off the Southampton coast was conceived by Prince Albert. Every aspect of this Itaianate "villa" was either designed, constructed or chiefly managed by the Prince Consort. Prince Albert, in fact, died at Osbourne of typhoid in 1861. In the years following Prince Alberts death, the Queen primarily resided at Balmoral and rarely used Frogmore or *Osbourne again. *As history is wont to follow, the Queen, was in residence at Osbourne House at the time of her demise 19 January 1901, some thirty-nine years after Prince Albert.