Victoria found this very chafing and relished her new-found freedom from such restrictions when she ascended the throne, aged just 18 years and 3 weeks old. The idea of Queen Victoria keeping a ...

Fact or Fiction: Albert fell through the ice and was rescued by Victoria. Fact: Believe it or not, this is true! As Queen Victoria wrote in her diary, The ice cracked, & Albert was in the ...

Queen Victoria’s reign of more than 63 years was overtaken by Queen Elizabeth II, who had reigned for 70 years when she died in 2022. They have now inspired two books, completely different in ...

After Queen Victoria's beloved husband passed away in 1861, the monarch was bereft with grief. The void Prince Albert left was soon filled, however, by an unexpected figure which shocked ...

Victoria died after weeks of ill health. Her son and heir Edward VII and her grandson Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany were at her deathbed. The Queen ruled over an Empire that covered a quarter of ...

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 ...

Queen Victoria - who was dubbed Ireland's 'Famine Queen' by revolutionary Maud Gonne - died on January 22, 1901. The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had a deep ...

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 ...

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 ...