From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...

She was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 ... today as ‘The Victorian Age’. When Victoria became Queen in 1837, most people travelled by horse or on foot.

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 ...

Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert popularized white wedding dresses. Later, her mourning of his passing cemented the ...

As Britain's second-longest reigning monarch, Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. If her would-be assassins had gotten their way, that reign would have ...

The Victorian Age started in the year of 1837 when the our Queen Victoria came to the throne and ended in 1861 when Prince Albert died, that was her husband. Victoria became queen at the age of ...

The recent drama, Victoria (2016-2019) on Netflix based on the life of Queen Victoria is an elaborate ... that dealt with the horrors of the Great Hunger raging in Ireland in 1847.

When Victoria succeeded her uncle William IV in 1837 ... 1870s saw the great personal duel between W.E. Gladstone and Disraeli. Only one of them knew how to deal with the queen.

As well as being Britain’s monarch, Empress of India and the ruler of a vast empire over which ‘the sun never set’, Queen Victoria was also a meddlesome matriarch who spent a great deal of ...

Alexandrina Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (a son of George III) and his wife Princess Victoria. She was born at Kensington Palace on 24th May 1819 and succeeded to the ...