Queen Victoria scolded the then Prime Minister Lord Salisbury for the failure to catch Jack the Ripper. Historian Lucy Worsley discovered the dressing-down in a telegram the monarch sent to the PM ...

They were given to one of Queen Victoria’s maids who passed them onto her family who kept them safe for generations. They were recently discovered hanging in a wardrobe of a house of a family ...

Disraeli struck the queen unfavorably at first, but he charmed her. He was amusing and attentive. He pushed to make her ...

An 1848 etching featuring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorating an evergreen tree influenced how people decorate for ...

As Queen Victoria wrote in her diary ... how thankful I felt to see him at my side again & that God should have mercifully preserved him from such a great danger! He cut his chin a little ...

London newspaper The Illustrated News published an image of the royal family gathered around an eight-foot decorated fir tree ...

Are you the King or Queen of Trivia? Put your Victoria knowledge to the test, and see how well you know the famous “mother of the nation” with our quiz, in celebration of Her Majesty ...

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 ...

The ribbon colour is blue. The medal's obverse side shows a veiled Queen Victoria profile, while the reverse side has a wreath with the text 'Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria' and the force's ...

The idea first spread to England through Queen Victoria's mother—but it was Victoria's consort Prince Albert who brought them into the mainstream in 1848. Hulton Archive//Getty Images The 1848 ...