Rarely-seen documents from the life and reign of Queen Victoria have been made public on a new website marking her own Diamond Jubilee. Called Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook ...

Andy Davies of Independent Television News reports ... Paul's Cathedral, the queen was shown the spot where Victoria, the last monarch to celebrate a diamond jubilee, held a similar service ...

The Queen marks 60 years on the throne this year, but Queen Victoria remains the nation's longest serving monarch. And now people can get a unique insight into her remarkable reign as a new ...

we look at the last time we had a Diamond Jubilee - Queen Victoria's in 1897. While Victoria - like the present Queen - enjoyed her special year at a time when the monarchy was widely held in high ...

It was 1897, and scores of nations from the British Empire, Canada among them, sent their contingents to London to help honour Victoria ... queen, Elizabeth II, is poised to mark a Diamond Jubilee ...

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The Queen inspected Queen Victoria's journals at Buckingham Palace The complete collection of Queen Victoria's private diaries is being made available to the public online for the first time.

THIS year’s Platinum Jubilee is the first in our history. Back in 1897 we had our first-ever Diamond Jubilee for Queen Victoria ... Daily Argus building. The newspaper had the last word ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets ... paid for by those who can afford it. The Queen was only the second British monarch to reach a Diamond Jubilee and the celebrations were a triumphant ...

The only other Diamond Jubilee celebrated by a British monarch was in 1897 in the reign of Queen Victoria Credit: Photo: CAMERA PRESS/John Swannell Initially Victoria had hoped for a quiet ...