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 ...

Victoria: The Queen An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire . Julia Baird (Random House, $35) Victora: The Queen, by Julia Baird. Advertisement. ex.co script has been added to the page.

Victoria: The Queen; An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire Julia Baird. Random House, $35 (736p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6988-0. Journalist Baird dedicates this florid, heaving biography ...

Rather than your typical chronological biography, Worsley examines the life of Queen Victoria through the lens of 24 days that made a particular impact on the queen, including the obvious (her ...

A rare copy of a Queen Victoria biography, complete with hand-written annotations by the monarch, is going under the hammer at Sotheby’s London on November 24 with a presale estimate of £10,000 ...

Queen Victoria may not have been much of a Victorian after all. ... In 1837, England was the still the strongest nation in the world, and its monarch still wielded clout.

Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise Lucinda Hawksley. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-05932-1 ...

In studying these objects, I learned that Queen Victoria was known to have many beautiful holders. During a state visit to Paris for the Universal Exhibition of 1855, she received an enameled gold ...

Queen Victoria was the only child of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Edward Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George III. She is the second-longest reigning British monarch at 63 years and 216 ...

LONDON -- A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, has been unveiled at the 19th century monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight, as part of the conservation ...

In 1837, during Victoria’s first year as queen, the 18-year-old was sketched and subsequently painted by Edmund Thomas Parris as she held a bouquet holder while at the Drury Lane Theatre, an ...