Queen Victoria may just be one of the most recognizable figures in world history, a ruler who lent her name to an entire age. But Julia Baird writes persuasively in a new biography that the ...

Queen Victoria’s reign over the British Empire was marked by expanded industrialization and a profusion of ornament, as seen in the women’s fashions of the time, featuring gloves and fans and ...

As the satirist and critic Craig Brown tells it in his new biography, A Voyage Around the Queen, the late monarch existed in a world scrubbed and polished to its highest possible sheen, populated ...

Queen Victoria’s reign saw the British Empire double in size, meaning that, in 1876, the Queen became Empress of India, the so-called ‘Jewel in the Crown’.

The first monarch to rule over what would later become Great Britain was King Alfred the Great, who was crowned as the King of England in 871 A.D. There wouldn't be a British monarch per se until ...

The United Kingdom has been ruled by eight women in its history. Here's what to know about the queens regnant, from Empress Matilda to Queen Elizabeth II.

Anne Somerset has had the excellent idea of looking at Victoria’s relations with her prime ministers in VICTORIA AND HER PRIME MINISTERS: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and ...

Queen Victoria had nine kids with her husband, Prince Albert. Here's everything to know about Queen Victoria's children.

Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, lived perhaps the most unexpected life. The sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria and Albert, she was a strong supporter of ...

How an Engraving of Queen Victoria Ushered in the Era of the Bouquet Holder in England The monarch set fashion trends during her time, and the flower holder became a sought-after accessory in ...