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 ...

Even the most dedicated fans of Queen Victoria are sure to learn something new in this biography of the monarch. From Victoria's struggle to claim her own power as a vivacious but sheltered young ...

IT WAS the large measure of a monarch. Queen Victoria was introduced to the intoxicating comforts of whisky by John Brown, the ghillie at Balmoral estate, whose frequent advice to the Queen was ...

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 ...

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Two new books, a novel and a biography, illuminate the life of Queen Victoria, who ruled much of the world in the 19th century. Julia Baird’s biography “Victoria: The Queen” ...

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 ...

The film Victoria and Abdul is a chronicle of the Queen's unlikely friendship with Abdul Karim, one of her confidants that people know very little about.

In ‘Victoria: A Life’, the prolific A.N. Wilson proves that we do need another life of the monarch. ... Queen for many a day. November 14, 2014. VICTORIA. A Life. By A.N. Wilson.