As the period of mourning continues ... held his nerve to steer the Allied Forces to victory over Nazi Germany. Queen Victoria requested that she should not lie in state. When she died at Osborne ...

But no one had more influence on mourning attire than Queen Victoria. Following her husband Prince Albert’s unexpected death in 1861, the monarch very publicly expressed her sorrow by wearing ...

Victoria’s approach to childbirth gave women new options, but in her own life, loss proved inescapable. When Prince Albert died in 1861, the queen’s mourning set a new standard for grief in ...

“It's very serendipitous that while I was also looking at these Gaultier archives, I had access to Queen Victoria's archives in London and to her mourning dress in particular,” she sai ...

From Princess Diana’s daring tuxedo gown to Queen Victoria’s mourning bodice and sweet little Liberty print dresses worn by Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret as children, a new Kensington ...

But black mourning attire, simple and accessible ... Victorians would be caught dead in last season’s outfit. When Queen Victoria died, in 1901 (after wearing exclusively black for her last ...

but rather Victoria’s later mourning of her husband. After Albert’s untimely death in 1861 at age 42, the queen made her grief public by wearing black for the rest of her life. Her commitment ...

He is the editor of “The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief.” Queen Victoria wore black for the remaining four decades of her life after her beloved husband ...

India held a day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II ... It used to be called Victoria Terminus for Queen Victoria, the empress of India. Now it's been renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.