Queen Victoria is remembered for her long tenure ... Victoria began taking drawing lessons as a young girl and eventually was taught by renowned artists such as Edwin Landseer, William Leighton ...

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

Using fir trees at Christmas dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria - she popularised using these trees and traditionally ...

In “Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,” Anne Somerset insightfully describes the arc of Victoria’s reign by tracking ...

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A cavalry subaltern under him was a young ... to the Queen, who told him "it would never do." Still, he went personally to the War Office, and received a staff assignment. Victoria warned him ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy ... made her childhood miserable – from her state apartments. The young Queen was charmed by her first prime minister, Lord Melbourne ...

As Queen Victoria wrote in her diary ... Victoria took an interest in the young princess, made her her goddaughter, invited her to Windsor palace regularly, and provided an education worthy ...

Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837 ... what amounted to a shifting variety of governing partnerships. The young Victoria, Ms. Somerset reminds us, was strong-willed and determined to assert ...