However, some of the current Royal Family's relatives endured difficult living conditions, with one former queen even finding ...

While Victoria, who had the nickname of ‘Grandmother of Europe’, wanted Louise to marry European heirs and dignitaries, this ...

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 ...

"How am Queen Victoria? How am 'postle Paul?" When it came to religious faith, Victoria was always a believer in a Higher Power in the heavens, and in some form of posthumous spiritual existence ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her royal uncles. She also shaped a new role for the Royal Family, reconnecting it with the public through ...