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The relationship between Queen Victoria and John Brown, who was her close companion after the death of her husband Prince Albert, has been the subject of intrigue for well over a century.
Queen Victoria - as she became aged 18 in 1837 after three of her uncles died without surviving heirs - went on to rule for 63 years, seven months and two days.
The 2017 film 'Victoria and Abdul' highlights the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant ...
In 1947, at Westminster Abbey, the Marchioness of Milford Haven witnessed her grandson Philip marry Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. The Marchioness, who had been Princess Victoria of Hesse ...
“Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers” is all politics and personalities, while “Q: A Voyage Around the Queen,” has neither. And Elizabeth herself remains a cipher.
Did you know Queen Victoria once adopted an Indian princess? Her name was Victoria Gowramma — the daughter of the last king ...
A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction in London next week. Three of the sketches were made when the British queen, who reigned from 1837 until her ...
In “Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,” Anne Somerset insightfully describes the arc of Victoria’s reign by tracking what amounted to a shifting variety of governing partnerships.