Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

Queen Victoria - as she became aged 18 in 1837 after three of her uncles died without surviving heirs - went on to rule for 63 years, seven months and two days.

Although Beatrice remained her mother’s companion, the Queen refused to speak to her for months, choosing only to communicate via note. Victoria did not speak to her daughter from May 1884, when ...

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.

Queen Victoria's very first grandchild Wilhelm II, also known as Kaiser Wilhelm, also became the first of her descendants to lose his throne when he abdicated in November of 1918, just days before ...

Queen Victoria was particularly protective of her youngest child Princess Beatrice, who was born just four years before the death of her father Albert, Prince Consort, and grandmother Victoria ...

“Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers” is all politics and personalities, while “Q: A Voyage Around the Queen,” has neither. And Elizabeth herself remains a cipher.

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.

A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction in London next week. Three of the sketches were made when the British queen, who reigned from 1837 until her ...