All the belated news from India seemed bad, and Victoria vented her fury on the prime minister. "The Queen must say," she wrote to Palmerston on August 25, 1857, "that the Government incur[s] a ...

Richard Lyon brought along this painting of, and a couple of actual invitations to, a celebratory commemoration party for Queen Victoria. The 'great meal' was held on Parker's Piece in Cambridge ...

He added that after the death of Queen Victoria, when Edward VII's coronation was about to take place, Maharaja Sawai Madhav Singh II of Jaipur reached London in 1902 on his ship Olympia.

Worn as a brooch by Queen Victoria, the Kohinoor ... the Queen Mother, during her coronation. India and Pakistan have demanded it be returned. The Queen Mary crown has instead been reset with ...

apricot purée and curry powder was created for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Mayonnaise, golden raisins, almonds and mango chutney form the base of this newer take on the ...

The Palace said the image marking the weekend of coronation festivities ... seized by the East India Company in 1849 and presented to Queen Victoria, and which featured in the late queen mother ...

In both occasions it is very distant from all other events beginning with the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, when the main representative of the United Provinces of the River Plate at the ...

During her reign the British Empire reached the height of its prestige and she was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877 ... which she sat in the Coronation Chair. Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St ...