It was 183 years ago today when Queen Victoria survived the first of two consecutive assassination attempts in London. As the queen returned to Buckingham Palace on May 29, 1842, a young man named ...

"Depicting the young queen, this 1838 coin was the first half sovereign minted for Victoria," said specialist Phil Bridge. "A huge amount of coins were lost due to being scrapped for bullion when ...

She left Queen Victoria to become a North Dakota farm wife What compelled Marie Downing to leave her life at Windsor Castle for the windswept prairie?

From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social media.

Anne Somerset has had the excellent idea of looking at Victoria’s relations with her prime ministers in VICTORIA AND HER PRIME MINISTERS: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and ...

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 ...

The Queen's Life Told Through Banknotes & Coins. PLEASE NOTE: The banknotes are shown in order of the Queen's age on the portrait used, NOT the banknote's year of release or issue.

A gold coin commemorating the late Queen’s 95th birthday has fetched a whopping £49,000 at a North Staffordshire auction. The 1kg fine gold coin went under the hammer at Newcastle-based ...