Queen Victoria is Britain's longest reigning monarch, on the throne for 64 years. Alexandrina Victoria Wettin, of the Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was the daughter of Edward Augustus, Duke of ...

Queen Victoria, born in 1819 ... The Victorians published a lot of reading- matter : biography, autobiography, books of travel, newspapers and above all novels. There were many reasons to explain ...

Victoria is the "Queen" in Queen's University. It is unknown who first suggested naming the university after her, but it was William Morris, first Chair of the university's Board of Trustees, who ...

Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise ... no wonder Princess Alice of Battenberg's life made it into The Crown. Tatler looks back on a biography both tragic and triumphant ‘I can still be ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her royal uncles. She also shaped a new role for the Royal Family, reconnecting it with the public through ...

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 ...

Albert was educated at Bonn University. In 1840, he married his cousin, Queen Victoria. The marriage was unpopular in some quarters, and parliament resisted granting Albert what his wife regarded ...

The steady good sense of Queen Victoria, which latterly rose to sagacity; the unprecedented length of her reign, its marvellous good fortune scarcely broken by the catastrophe in Afghanistan or ...

After Princess Victoria became Queen in 1837, the cousins met again in October 1839 and their engagement was announced on 23 November that year. The marriage took place on 10 February 1840 in the ...

She has written for publications in the US and Australia. Julia is currently writing a biography of Queen Victoria for Random House, New York and is also a columnist for The New York Times.