Queen Victoria may just be one of the most recognizable figures in world history, a ruler who lent her name to an entire age. But Julia Baird writes persuasively in a new biography that the ...

Even the most dedicated fans of Queen Victoria are sure to learn something new in this biography of the monarch. From Victoria's struggle to claim her own power as a vivacious but sheltered young ...

IT WAS the large measure of a monarch. Queen Victoria was introduced to the intoxicating comforts of whisky by John Brown, the ghillie at Balmoral estate, whose frequent advice to the Queen was ...

However, Julia Baird didn’t expect the breakthrough for her coming biography of Queen Victoria to be found in the Scottish lowlands. The co-host of ABC’s The Drum was directed to the archives ...