Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

Queen Victoria and her family at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in 1870. Her youngest son Prince Leopold is behind her. He suffered from haemophilia and died a week short of his 31st ...

The relationship between Queen Victoria and John Brown, who was her close companion after the death of her husband Prince Albert, has been the subject of intrigue for well over a century.

Although Beatrice remained her mother’s companion, the Queen refused to speak to her for months, choosing only to communicate via note. Victoria did not speak to her daughter from May 1884, when ...

Queen Victoria's XXL nightie and daughter Princess Beatrice's underwear are set to be sold for thousands of dollars after they were discovered collecting dust in a house on the Isle of Wight.

To examine Victoria's diaries, her passionate relationship and her society's attitude to sex, Kate is joined for this special ...

“Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers” is all politics and personalities, while “Q: A Voyage Around the Queen,” has neither. And Elizabeth herself remains a cipher.

In “Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,” Anne Somerset insightfully describes the arc of Victoria’s reign by tracking what amounted to a shifting variety of governing partnerships.

A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction in London next week.. Three of the sketches were made when the British queen, who reigned from 1837 until her ...