While Victoria, who had the nickname of ‘Grandmother of Europe’, wanted Louise to marry European heirs and dignitaries, this ...

However, some of the current Royal Family's relatives endured difficult living conditions, with one former queen even finding ...

Queen Victoria may or may not have been amused ... found her “very wilful and whimsical, like a spoilt child”, once dismissing her behaviour as “very mad”. Victoria’s voice, preserved ...

Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, lived perhaps the most unexpected life. The sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria and Albert, she was a strong supporter of ...

Queen Victoria was on the throne during the height of the British Empire - but her earliest days were spent in lonely ...

In his quest for notoriety, Oxford bought a pistol and on 10th June 1840 shot at 21 year-old Queen Victoria, pregnant with her first child. After he was caught, Oxford wrote to a friend ...

As Queen Victoria wrote in her diary ... Originally name Aina, Sarah Forbes Bonetta was the child of West African Yoruba royalty who were killed by the army of notorious slave trader King Ghezo.

Victoria was unimpressed. As queen, however, she interviewed German ... with the social need to sequester herself when bulky with child. It was what Victoria had dreaded, but the couple knew ...

Alexandrina Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (a son of George ... Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St Paul's cathedral. Queen Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838, aged 19.

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her royal uncles. She also shaped a new role for the Royal Family, reconnecting it with the public through ...