Now is your chance to own a rare set of floral canvases by Queen Victoria, the famed British monarch who reigned over the empire from 1837 until her death in 1901.The large oil paintings will be ...

In the past, Rosebery’s has sold other royal artworks, including a painting by Princess Victoria, Queen Victoria’s daughter, which fetched £4,198 (around $5,320) last year.

The Duke of Kent, who was father to Queen Victoria, died in 1820, leaving the matter of the young monarch’s education to her mother and the opportunistic Conroy.

In 1842, Queen Victoria faced two assassination attempts by 19-year-old John Francis in London. Despite a close call, she survived both attacks unscathed.

In “Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,” Anne Somerset insightfully describes the arc of Victoria’s reign by tracking what amounted to a shifting variety of governing partnerships.

Queen Victoria’s undergarments have been popular in the past. In 2008, one of her nighties sold for about $6,060, while a pair of bloomers were snapped up for about $5,245 and a chemise for $4,429.

There’s even a lock of Queen Victoria’s hair. “You can see it, one or two strands of Victoria's reddish-brown hair that she was known to have,’’ he says, eyeballing a tiny clear plastic bag.

Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901, aged 81 following a stroke, and after being the only monarch many of her subjects knew. She passed away surrounded by her family at Osbourne House on the ...

An 1848 etching featuring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorating an evergreen tree influenced how people decorate for the holidays Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has ...

Queen Victoria’s miniature post box which she used to send letters and cards during her reign 140 years ago has been unearthed and is set to fetch up to £6,000.