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

Queen Victoria ruled over the UK for 63 long years. The Victorian Era finally ended in 1901, when the Queen passed away at ...

However, this all changed when she met her first cousin, Prince Albert, with the pair tying the knot in 1840. Through decades ...

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 fifth-born child and third daughter, Princess Helena was born in 1846 and was nicknamed Lenchen. Helena married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, who was 15 years older than ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Queen Victoria left many a lasting legacy – but one particular element of her reign has, more than any other, been subject to scrutiny and rumour for well over a century. After the death of her ...