Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert popularized white wedding dresses. Later, her mourning of his passing cemented the ...
From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...
Wentworth Woodhouse is the largest private residence in England but it was left to descend into ruin. Now, it's undergoing a ...
Queen Elizabeth II has been crowned the most popular British monarch of all time, according to a new poll. The late monarch ...
The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...
As Britain's second-longest reigning monarch, Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. If her would-be assassins had gotten their way, that reign would have ...
The Benin Bronzes belong in Benin. Not in London. Not in Oxford. And certainly not in a country that built its wealth on ...
The Queen’s act was criticised as being unconstitutional. Victoria fell in love with her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha when he visited Britain in 1839. As head of state she ...
Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...
Victoria was presented as a young queen who was always concerned with ... Similar intervention and market regulation occurred in Britain. For example, following the poor grain harvest in 1773 ...
As well as being Britain’s monarch, Empress of India and the ruler of a vast empire over which ‘the sun never set’, Queen Victoria was also a meddlesome matriarch who spent a great deal of ...