 Queen Victoria visited the station six days later when she accompanied the king on his return to France.Following Albert's purchase of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight the following year, he negotiated the construction of an extension of the line through the town ramparts to a private station, the Royal Victoria Station, built in Royal Clarence Yard for the use of Royal family and household, who would arrive here for the Solent crossing.For the next fifty years, Victoria and her party landed here for her summer holiday at Osborne.