“I am very sorry to leave Ireland," Queen Victoria said at the end of her last official visit to the Emerald Isle in 1900 ... who was himself a very young man at the time, offered to give ...

Victoria saw Gladstone as a threat to the monarchy itself. She wrote in her diary ‘Mr Gladstone is a very dangerous man ... Queen’s newfound zest for life and ruling a global population was ...

Less than a fortnight later, the statue was felled and its base defaced again, this time with: “The colony can fall”. The Queen Victoria statue is being restored in Melbourne. Picture ...