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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 ...
The widowed monarch and mother of nine is to get a new reputation as a woman who made the most of her 'passionate mid-life' ...
Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.
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However, Julia Baird didn’t expect the breakthrough for her coming biography of Queen Victoria to be found in the Scottish lowlands. The co-host of ABC’s The Drum was directed to the archives ...
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 ...
Anyone who had ever watched her address the nation was aware the Queen knew how to work the camera. But there was one occasion when her ability to deliver a line on screen that would capture and ...
King Charles is set to derail the late Queen Elizabeth II's favourite mode of transport in a bid to cut costs, as staggering ...
Queen Victoria had nine kids with her husband, Prince Albert. Here's everything to know about Queen Victoria's children.
‘Q’ is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth unlike any other Craig Brown’s biography is deliberately kaleidoscopic, composed of multitudinous fragments, impressions and snippets of relevant documents.
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 ...