The Queen’s act was criticised as being unconstitutional. Victoria fell in love with her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha when he visited Britain in 1839. As head of state she ...

A book to be published this week says that Britain's Queen Victoria may have been illegitimate, possibly undermining the whole Royal Family's legitimacy, the Sunday Times reported. In his book "The ...

We have this image of Queen Victoria as a highly proper, disciplined monarch. But the Queen was also someone who liked to get high, from opium tinctures to chewing gum laced with cocaine.

Prints, photographs, and paintings like this one helped cement her image across Britain and beyond. Walk through the streets of the United Kingdom, and you’ll see Queen Victoria’s name ...

The relationship between Queen Victoria and her beloved servant John ... Victoria commissioned Alfred Lord Tennyson - one of Britain's greatest writers to write the inscription on his tombstone.

But today, Britain’s throne has never been more ... even trade unionists who would have been shown the back door in Queen Victoria’s day now lunch regularly at Buckingham Palace.

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

“As the weather in Britain is generally temperamental around ... Prince Albert (aka husband to Queen Victoria), who was very ...

Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the ...