SEXY birthday gifts exchanged between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, shedding new light on their passionate relationship, have gone on display at Osborne House.

A new exhibition, Victoria and Albert’s Birthdays at Osborne, features a white marble statue depicting a nude female figure seated on a rock, and a painting of women in various states of undress.

On her 30th birthday, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary: "This day was again welcomed in by the tender love and affection of my dearest Albert."

In fact, the Queen's journal details year after year of birthday mornings, beginning with Albert's ‘tender love’ while a band played under their window.

The exhibition opened on Friday, along with a birthday trail around the Osborne House grounds, to coincide with the bicentenary of the royal couple's births, and will run until August.

Michael Hunter, English Heritage curator at Osborne, said: "Queen Victoria may be remembered as the mourning widow in black, but these gifts show a different side to her personality.

"She was open to nudity and the sensuous, more open than Albert who perhaps surprisingly was the more prudish of the pair.

"The new display and new trail at Osborne for Queen Victoria’s birthday show a woman most ardently in love with her husband and with art."

Last Friday, Osborne House unveiled an actual Victoria sponge to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday ­—a lifesize replica of Her Majesty, made from cake.

Standing at 4ft 11ins, it contained 298 eggs, 26kg of butter and 20kg of fondant.

Victoria sponge was named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy a slice with her afternoon tea.

Created by Peboryon Cakes, based in Cornwall, it contained 298 eggs, 26kg of butter and 20kg of fondant.

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