As a celebration of British heritage, the Local History Room at May Memorial Library in Burlington will have a display during the month of July of materials on researching British ancestry and of ...

Queen Victoria was all of 19 at her coronation ... which have been housed in the Tower of London.” The artifacts include the spurs and sword, “links to the monarchy’s knightly past.

Horticultural Artifacts Collection / Gift of Frances Jones Poetker Other royals also partook in the fashion. At the March 1863 wedding of Princess Alexandra of Denmark and Queen Victoria’s son ...

The two attempts on her life, carried out by 19-year-old John Francis, happened within a span of 24 hours, historical records ...

Queen Victoria At Kensington Palace With Lucy Worsley' BAFTA winning historian and Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley takes Dan Snow on a tour of Kensington Palace ...

Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 until her death ... Townsfolk eagerly visited to see and even touch the royal artifacts she had kept. She often lent gowns and jewelry to local brides, bringing ...

The final example, made in Victoria’s first year as Queen, depicts a seated woman with a crown and sash, inscribed “by Her Majesty.” The collection is thought to have been assembled by ...

Five flint flakes were also found. There are also artifacts that aren't Indigenous, including an 1859 Queen Victoria coin, a 16th Regiment military button made in 1860 and a carved-bone ...

It had been, after all, a marriage of passion and deep affection. Queen Victoria wrote the experience of loss sent her into “paroxysms of despair,” landing her with a sadness that never truly ...