Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

Popular English drama “Victoria” overplays the extent to which Queen Victoria sought to aid the famine Irish in the 1840s, exaggerating her interest in Ireland. On August 2, 1849, British ...

The stone was originally part of the Lahore Treasure in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan until 1849, when the area was taken over by British colonists and "presented to Queen Victoria in ...

And in 1849, after imprisoning Jindan, the British forced Duleep to sign a legal document amending the Treaty of Lahore, ... Most of the diamonds were removed from Queen Victoria's Regal Circlet.

The Kohinoor diamond, which ranks as one of the world’s largest, was “gifted” to Queen Victoria in 1849 by the 11-year-old emperor of the Sikhs, Maharaja Duleep Singh.But Singh’s mother ...

In 1842, Queen Victoria faced two assassination attempts by 19-year-old John Francis in London. Despite a close call, she survived both attacks unscathed.

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, ...