Having a particular affinity for Queen Victoria, we asked Dr. George Gross of King’s College London to specifically compare her 1838 crowning with that of Charles III’s. From the coronation ...

During her reign the British Empire reached the height of its prestige and she was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877 ... which she sat in the Coronation Chair. Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St ...

All the belated news from India seemed bad, and Victoria vented her fury on the prime minister. "The Queen must say," she wrote to Palmerston on August 25, 1857, "that the Government incur[s] a ...

A crowd of 400,000 gathered on the streets of London to catch a glimpse of the Queen on her Coronation Day ... return to public life. Victoria became the Empress of India to tie the monarchy ...

Worn as a brooch by Queen Victoria, the Kohinoor ... the Queen Mother, during her coronation. India and Pakistan have demanded it be returned. The Queen Mary crown has instead been reset with ...

In both occasions it is very distant from all other events beginning with the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, when the main representative of the United Provinces of the River Plate at the ...