to encourage and to warn,” as Walter Bagehot had argued in “The English Constitution” (1867). In “Queen Victoria and Her ...

She was born to an overweight German duchess who fled Britain due to her debts. On this day in 1867, Mary of Teck arrived into the world at Kensington Palace, with Queen Victoria describing her as ...

Queen Victoria's rebellious sixth daughter Princess Louise had an illegitimate ... "Then there was a baby who has no birth certificate, born in 1866/1867, and was adopted very hastily by the ...

The sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria and Albert ... inaugurating the new North Eastern Hospital for Children in 1867. As the (some say, most beautiful) child of the Queen, Princess Louise ...

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, shown around 1860 ... particularly to open Canada's first Parliament after Confederation in 1867. (She was in mourning for her husband, Prince Albert, and wasn't interested ...