and in 1866, party disunity brought down his government. Following his final resignation, John Russell never held any office again. On his death in 1878, Queen Victoria recorded in her journal tha ...

California’s 1849 Gold Rush and the 1866 discovery of South African diamond mines made these precious materials more accessible. And when Prince Albert proposed to Queen Victoria with a gold ...

She's known as the teen queen of Britain, but Queen Victoria was also a mom. Queen Victoria acceded to the throne in 1837 when she was 18 years old. As historian Daisy Goodwin told PEOPLE ...

Born into royalty but raised in exile, Prince Victor Duleep Singh—grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh—lived a life of privilege ...

Princess Victoria was also christened in the arms of the Queen on 27 April and spent her early life at Bessungen, a small suburb of Darmstadt in Southern Germany. In 1866, aged three, she was sent to ...

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. While it remains unclear who was ...

Elizabeth II goes down in history as our longest-ruling monarch, though she was closely followed by her ancestor Queen Victoria – who was the second-longest reigning monarch. Namesake of all ...

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria. Three of her relatives waged a war whose consequence saw two of them (Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany ...