However, some of the current Royal Family's relatives endured difficult living conditions, with one former queen even finding ...

400 million people across the world called Victoria their Queen. Victoria was eighteen when she became Queen. At the time, the Royal Family was unpopular. But people liked this new Queen!

But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen Victoria’s court in 1887 to become a modest farmer’s wife in rural America. It was a colossal culture shock from ...

Tory politician Robert Peel agreed to become prime minister provided Victoria replaced some of her Whig ladies-in-waiting with Tory ones. She refused and reappointed Lord Melbourne. The Queen’s ...

Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901 ... As the practice spread, it became a hallmark of middle-class households, reflecting the era’s emphasis on family and home life.

Victoria seemed almost certain to become queen after her elderly and childless uncles George and William had their turns on the throne. By law, she required a Protestant consort. A student at the ...

"An Address to the Queen" was read by the ... help to the doomed and quirky Gordon, Victoria was publicly outraged. The fanatically religious Gordon became, briefly, a martyr and saint, but ...