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A care worker from the US could be a descendant of Queen Victoria’s secret love child, a historian has claimed.
Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.
Just as the Victorian era is incorrectly portrayed as a period of demureness, misconceptions about the British monarchy – ...
Queen Victoria may not have been much of a Victorian after all. Certainly not as she is played by Jenna Coleman in the sumptuous series “Victoria,” beginning on “Masterpiece” on Sunday.
Despite being born 48 years apart, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary of Teck have far more in common than first meets the eye - apart from both being the matriarchs of the Royal Family.
Queen Victoria was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. Despite this, she didn’t like the idea of female rulers. Here’s what she had to say – and how her actions may have ...
The Queen Mary 2 is big and grand,” the Ritz-Carlton of liners; the Queen Victoria is more like “a five-star luxury country hotel.” Lessons learned from Queen Mary 2 influenced the design.
According to The Crown, Queen Victoria Syndrome is a phrase used to describe what happens when "the public begins to perceive a long-reigning monarch to be out of touch with her people".
The phrase references Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II's great-great-grandmother, who reigned for 64 years from 1837 to her death in 1901. Victoria's reign was the longest of any British monarch ...
LONDON -- A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, has been unveiled at the 19th century monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight, as part of the conservation ...