Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her royal uncles. She also shaped a new role for the Royal Family, reconnecting it with the public through ...

Legislation to take royal control of India through a viceroy received Victoria's signature on August 2, 1858, the Queen writing to Canning (who became viceroy, with an earldom) that direct ...

"How am Queen Victoria? How am 'postle Paul?" When it came to religious faith, Victoria was always a believer in a Higher Power in the heavens, and in some form of posthumous spiritual existence ...