Osborne House (English Wikipedia)

"Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the newly invented telephone". The Telegraph. 13 January 2017. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2020. one of the Queen's staff wrote to Professor Bell to inform him 'how much gratified and surprised the Queen was at the exhibition of the Telephone'.
Nigel Richardson. "Queen Victoria's private beach to open to the public". Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2012.

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"Victoria's plunge: Queen's beach to open to public". The Independent. 17 July 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

"140 Years Since First Telephone Call to Queen Victoria on the Isle of Wight". Island Echo. 14 January 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020. He made the UK's first publicly-witnessed long distance calls, calling Cowes, Southampton and London. Queen Victoria liked the telephone so much she wanted to buy it.

"pdf, Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Sir Thomas Biddulph, February 1, 1878". Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 January 2020. The instruments at present in Osborne are merely those supplied for ordinary commercial purposes, and it will afford me much pleasure to be permitted to offer to the Queen a set of Telephones to be made expressly for her Majesty's use.

Hargreaves, A (2002). "Cubitt, Thomas (1788–1855)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6859. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

"Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the newly invented telephone". The Telegraph. 13 January 2017. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2020. one of the Queen's staff wrote to Professor Bell to inform him 'how much gratified and surprised the Queen was at the exhibition of the Telephone'.
Nigel Richardson. "Queen Victoria's private beach to open to the public". Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2012.