Queen Victoria's fifth-born child and third daughter, Princess Helena was born in 1846 and was nicknamed Lenchen. Helena married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, who was 15 years older than ...

To examine Victoria's diaries, her passionate relationship and her society's attitude to sex, Kate is joined for this special ...

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.

Queen Victoria’s undergarments have been popular in the past. In 2008, one of her nighties sold for about $6,060, while a pair of bloomers were snapped up for about $5,245 and a chemise for $4,429.

Although Beatrice remained her mother’s companion, the Queen refused to speak to her for months, choosing only to communicate via note. Victoria did not speak to her daughter from May 1884, when ...

“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.

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.