As the period of mourning continues ... held his nerve to steer the Allied Forces to victory over Nazi Germany. Queen Victoria requested that she should not lie in state. When she died at Osborne ...

But no one had more influence on mourning attire than Queen Victoria. Following her husband Prince Albert’s unexpected death in 1861, the monarch very publicly expressed her sorrow by wearing ...

Victoria’s approach to childbirth gave women new options, but in her own life, loss proved inescapable. When Prince Albert died in 1861, the queen’s mourning set a new standard for grief in ...

The expert continued by stating that the bow brooches are "poignant heirlooms of the Crown, passed from queen to queen since ...

In what just might be the most British spot in Canada, Victoria’s castle-like Fairmont Empress Hotel – named, like the city, for Queen Victoria and decorated in places with photos of the Royal ...

but rather Victoria’s later mourning of her husband. After Albert’s untimely death in 1861 at age 42, the queen made her grief public by wearing black for the rest of her life. Her commitment ...

From Princess Diana’s daring tuxedo gown to Queen Victoria’s mourning bodice and sweet little Liberty print dresses worn by Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret as children, a new Kensington ...