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According to documents lodged with Kilkenny, the City of Melbourne raised concerns last year over the tower’s potential ...
The 2017 film 'Victoria and Abdul' highlights the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant ...
Queen Victoria and the 'royal disease': How the monarch was a carrier of haemophilia, which killed nine of her descendants (including her son) and spread into European royalty - prompting rise of ...
Despite being born 48 years apart, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary of Teck have far more in common than first meets the eye - apart from both being the matriarchs of the Royal Family.
Queen Victoria’s reign of more than 63 years was overtaken by Queen Elizabeth II, who had reigned for 70 years when she died in 2022. They have now inspired two books, ...
Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) saw an unprecedented expansion of media, making her one of the most recognizable monarchs in history. Prints, photographs, and paintings like this one helped ...
According to The Crown, Queen Victoria Syndrome is a phrase used to describe what happens when "the public begins to perceive a long-reigning monarch to be out of touch with her people".
The phrase references Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II's great-great-grandmother, who reigned for 64 years from 1837 to her death in 1901. Victoria's reign was the longest of any British monarch ...
Queen Victoria, the longest-reigning British monarch until Queen Elizabeth II surpassed her in 2015, wasn't just an empire figurehead but a trendsetter whose choices left a lasting legacy. Long ...
Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards ...
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 ...