So she did, to the point that she was considered the “grandmother of Europe,” through marriages rather than military ...

Born into royalty but raised in exile, Prince Victor Duleep Singh—grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh—lived a life of privilege ...

Kings and Generals continues its Victorian Era series - supported by Paradox Interactive and Victoria 3 - with a look at 10 major events that defined the 19th century. From the First Opium War and ...

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The Duke of Kent, who was father to Queen Victoria, died in 1820, leaving the matter of the young monarch’s education to her mother and the opportunistic Conroy. While it remains unclear who was ...

Princess Victoria was also christened in the arms of the Queen on 27 April and spent her early life at Bessungen, a small suburb of Darmstadt in Southern Germany. In 1866, aged three, she was sent to ...

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria. Three of her relatives waged a war whose consequence saw two of them (Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany ...

They were given to one of Queen Victoria’s maids who passed them onto her family who kept them safe for generations. They were recently discovered hanging in a wardrobe of a house of a family ...

Return from the Crimea then impressed Queen Victoria so much when it was exhibited ... the art equivalent of the poet laureate – in 1866. The other paintings on display include work inspired ...

It had been, after all, a marriage of passion and deep affection. Queen Victoria wrote the experience of loss sent her into “paroxysms of despair,” landing her with a sadness that never truly ...