From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...
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 ...
When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.
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.
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...
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.
Queen Victoria - who was dubbed Ireland's 'Famine Queen' by revolutionary Maud Gonne - died on January 22, 1901. The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had a deep ...
We’ve rounded up some of the most surprising foods that hold (or have held) Royal Warrants – and offer us an insight into ...
its commercialization as a public holiday came much later in the 1840s thanks to Queen Victoria of Great Britain. The people of the time, called Victorians, “…loved showering their significant ...
As a result, the German Elector George Louis of Hanover was proclaimed king of Great Britain in ... the Royal Pavilion. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert In 1837, George IV's niece Victoria ...
With so many to choose from in the famously good-value pub chain, which are the cream of the crop? We asked two of the ...