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

he appealed to the Queen, who told him "it would never do." Still, he went personally to the War Office, and received a staff assignment. Victoria warned him of the unhealthy climate of equatorial ...

Queen Victoria: was an empire-ruling, photograph collecting, public image making, diary writing, total queen, who gave her name to an era of British history that saw more change than any other ...

To the long history of mismanagement ... royal control of India through a viceroy received Victoria's signature on August 2, 1858, the Queen writing to Canning (who became viceroy, with an ...

The annals of history are littered with tales of women ... Through her writing and by personally petitioning Queen Victoria, Caroline pleaded her case. “An English wife may not leave her husband ...

But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen Victoria’s court in 1887 to become a modest ...

What is the link between Queen Victoria, potatoes and crochet? In early Victorian Britain, crochet was often regarded as a cheap substitute for traditional hand made lace and as such was not ...

Souvenir handkerchief made to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 ... III as the longest reigning monarch of British history. This handkerchief was designed to remind ...

Fruit and vegetable traders at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market have gone on strike for the first time in the market's long-running history. Traders have accused the City of Melbourne and its ...

Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St Paul's cathedral. Queen Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838, aged 19. The ceremony took five hours and suffered from a lack of rehearsal. No one except the Queen ...

The steady good sense of Queen Victoria, which latterly rose to sagacity; the unprecedented length of her reign, its marvellous good fortune scarcely broken by the catastrophe in Afghanistan or ...