THERE is a perceptible note of apprehension in the public mind, caused by the death of the Queen ... The steady good sense of Queen Victoria, which latterly rose to sagacity; the unprecedented ...

The Queen was inconsolable with grief and wore mourning for the rest of her life. Victoria withdrew from public life after Albert's death, but kept up with her correspondence and continued to give ...

Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 until her death in 1901. She is the second-longest ruling British monarch, surpassed only by her great, great, granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II who ruled for 70 years.

In the late, chill spring of 1886, with morning frost still on the ground at eleven, the Queen left Windsor ... Liko was dead of fever, and on February 3, 1896 his body, preserved in rum in ...