Here are five things to know about the real Queen Victoria: 1. She was the "Taylor Swift" of the royals. Just 18 when she inherited the throne in 1837, "overnight she was the most famous and most ...

In 1845, a potato blight wiped out Ireland's crop, which the queen blithely ignored. Over the next seven years, known as The ...

It's the heart of many a fairy tale — a young woman rising from humble beginnings to a life of luxury in a grand palace. But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen ...

By the time Queen Victoria passed away in 1901, the British Empire was the biggest empire the world had ever seen - Queen Victoria was in charge of nearly 1/4 of the world's population.

Queen Victoria is remembered for many reasons - her longevity, her nine children and the fact that she spent 40 years in mourning. However, her earliest days were very different from the years ...

Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of statues featuring women in the city of London. A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up ...

Industrial High School student, Madison Kubecka, 16, was dazzling under the lights as she was crowned the 2025 Victoria Livestock Show’s Queen Victoria. As Kubecka steps further into the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Queen Victoria Market fruit and vegetable traders will close their stalls on Tuesday, going on strike for the first time in the ...

Souvenir handkerchief made to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. The year before, she had surpassed her grandfather George III as the longest reigning monarch of British ...