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 ...

Prints, photographs, and paintings like this one helped cement her image across Britain and beyond. Walk through the streets of the United Kingdom, and you’ll see Queen Victoria’s name ...

We have this image of Queen Victoria as a highly proper, disciplined monarch. But the Queen was also someone who liked to get high, from opium tinctures to chewing gum laced with cocaine.

“As the weather in Britain is generally temperamental around ... Prince Albert (aka husband to Queen Victoria), who was very ...

The two attempts on her life, carried out by 19-year-old John Francis, happened within a span of 24 hours, historical records ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince ... In 2015, she overtook her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years, seven months and two days to become the longest-serving ...

Her funeral will instead echo some of the biggest public events the U.K. has ever seen, following customs set in part by the farewell given to Queen Victoria, the queen’s great-great-grandmother ...

Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the ...

Over 4,000 of Queen Victoria’s artworks ... tutored by some of 19th-century Britain’s foremost painters, including Edwin Landseer and William Leighton Leitch. Her work often depicted her ...