Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

On the same day in May 1856 that Queen Victoria held a review in Hyde Park at which she distributed the first Victoria Crosses, earned in the Crimea, she learned of the likelihood that many more ...

In 1842, Queen Victoria faced two assassination attempts by 19-year-old John Francis in London. Despite a close call, she survived both attacks unscathed.

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.