Queen Victoria was furious with then-Prime Minister Lord Salisbury over his government's failure to bring Jack the Ripper to justice during his infamous 1888 killing spree. The revelation comes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the ...
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 Marchioness, who had been Princess Victoria of Hesse, was Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, spanning two very different worlds. Even more remarkably, a statue of her sister now looks out ...
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 ...