Osborne House was an island retreat for Queen Victoria and Price Albert. The path from Osborne House to the beach where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert played with their children. Victoria’s “bathing house” is the wheeled contraption on the left. The Tennyson Monument on Tennyson Down is a tribute to English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, who lived on the Isle of Wight for 39 years, beginning in 1853. The hovercraft on the Solent between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. The Needles are a series of chalk ridges that rise out of the water off the western tip of the Isle of Wight.