Today's funeral marks the last day in the official ... coerced Singh into “gifting” the diamond to Queen Victoria, Dalhousie wrote in a letter in August 1849 to his friend Sir George Couper. “ ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy ... Lastly she left orders that Abdul Karim be among the principal mourners at her funeral. She was an indomitable monarch who, even at the ...

The Imperial State Crown, the Sovereign's Sceptre and the Sovereign's Orb were each placed atop the Queen's coffin for the State Funeral on ... he carried it to Queen Victoria amid the State ...

Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St Paul's cathedral. Queen Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838, aged 19. The ceremony took five hours and suffered from a lack of rehearsal. No one except the Queen ...

A King’s Guard who served during the late Queen’s funeral has been crowned the new ... with the Coldstream Guards and is ...