From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...
After Queen Victoria's beloved husband passed away ... John became an increasingly important part of Victoria's life after her husband passed away. He was even present during an attempted ...
Prince Albert died at the age of 42. The Queen was inconsolable with grief and wore mourning for the rest of her life. Victoria withdrew from public life after Albert's death, but kept up with her ...
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...
Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert popularized white wedding dresses. Later, her mourning of his passing cemented the image of a grieving widow in black Sarah Holzmann A new exhibition ...
Strong, intelligent, and best known as Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta led an extraordinary life. Her experiences, however, were far from idyllic. Born an African ...
As Queen Victoria wrote in her diary ... Though she suffered from fragile health most of her life, and died of tuberculosis before the age of 40, Sarah was survived by her husband, the wealthy ...
Queen Victoria’s mother was originally from Germany, so Victoria spoke only German for the first three years of her life. Furthermore, she was raised by the German baroness Louise Lehzen and also ...
“Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers” is all ... including rather too many of Brown’s (full disclosure, I have never in my life dreamed about Queen Elizabeth). People who met her saw ...
Over the centuries, the Royal Family have owned countless breath-taking properties across the UK. We know the most famous ones well as they are now home to the current generation of royals ...
A pair of baggy bloomers which belonged to Queen Victoria are going under the hammer ... since their size reflects a lady who was larger than life in more ways than one in the 1880s and 1890s.
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert from Germany ... She was so sad she decided to dress in black clothes for the rest of her life. Britain changed a lot during her reign. Steam railways spread ...