Even more so when one realises that the lovely young woman languorously baring her shoulders is none other than Queen Victoria. The portrait, known as ‘the secret picture’, was commissioned by ...

For Victoria, who would never venture farther ... Mahdi. Hulton Getty Picture Archive. The Queen's experience of colonial Africa had been even more direct two years earlier when the deposed ...

Photos found on the Isle of Wight show how Islanders marked the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Thousands of people can be seen lining the streets as the Queen's coffin was taken from Osborne ...

W. and D. Downey//Getty Images Queen Victoria at her writing desk in 1878. Feodora never fled from Germany due to unrest at home. The scenario that Victoria paints, in which Feodora appears at the ...

A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction ... British and European Pictures at Roseberys, the London-based auction house facilitating the sale on ...

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria. Three of her ... The 1850s to the 1870s saw the great personal duel between W.E. Gladstone ...

She was Queen of the United ... People had their photos taken for the first time. They even enjoyed the first chocolate Easter eggs! As Victoria grew older, she visited many towns and cities.