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Out of all of Queen Victoria’s children, Princess Helena Augusta Victoria is usually the least remembered. An extremely ...
She was Queen Victoria, and she was running the British Empire. Queen Victoria was a huge fan of drugs. That’s probably not ...
Princess Gouramma of Coorg became Queen Victoria's goddaughter. This symbolized British imperial triumph. The Coorg War led ...
Despite being born 48 years apart, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary of Teck have far more in common than first meets the eye - apart from both being the matriarchs of the Royal Family.
Although it might appear that she was wearing Queen Victoria's massive sapphire and diamond brooch —a piece regularly worn by ...
The relationship between Queen Victoria and John Brown, who was her close companion after the death of her husband Prince Albert, has been the subject of intrigue for well over a century.
In 1842, he was knighted by Queen Victoria and in 1857 given a hereditary baronetcy; in both cases he was the first Indian ...
Queen Victoria was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. Despite this, she didn’t like the idea of female rulers. Here’s what she had to say – and how her actions may have ...
Queen Victoria’s oldest son, Edward, was born in 1841. He became king in 1901, after Victoria’s death. Edward’s second-eldest son, George, succeeded him in May 1910.
LONDON -- A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, has been unveiled at the 19th century monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight, as part of the conservation ...