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 ...
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 ...
In 1947, at Westminster Abbey, the Marchioness of Milford Haven witnessed her grandson Philip marry Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. The Marchioness, who had been Princess Victoria of Hesse, was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, transformed the idea of Christmas from a church-centered event into the cozy, family-focused celebration we recognize today. European Editor at Large ...
Queen Elizabeth II at a State Banquet wearing the Kokoshnick tiara and Queen Victoria's collet necklace and earrings in 1981 Dripping in diamonds, the Queen added a pair of sparkling diamond ...
On the same day in May 1856 that Queen Victoria held a review in Hyde Park at which she distributed the first Victoria Crosses, earned in the Crimea, she learned of the likelihood that many more ...