At 6am on June 20, 1837, Victoria was woken to be ... Sadly for Victoria, the man she relied on for support died in 1861, aged only 42. Queen Victoria was devastated. At a Privy Council meeting ...

Queen Victoria is Britain’s second longest reigning ruler (Picture: Getty Images) Victoria succeeded her uncle William IV as royal sovereign in 1837 following his death aged 71. She was aged 18 ...

The Queen, who gave her name to the age of Mill and of Darwin, never got any further than that. From the social movements of her time Victoria was equally remote. Towards the smallest no less than ...

Queen Victoria is as well known for leading the second longest reign in England, as she is for her iron will. Her childhood, however, was a lonely one of solitude, dominated by her mother, the Duchess ...

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 ...

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 ...

They married on 20 November 1947 - two years after ... which was - again - a record previously held by Queen Victoria, who died at the age of 81. Not only that, but Queen Elizabeth II was the ...