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

Despite being born 48 years apart, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary of Teck have far more in common than first meets the eye ... when she was 35 from diphtheria on December 14 1878 ...

They travelled at 35 miles per hour during the day and 25 at night. ... On 1 May 1899, Queen Victoria lamented going north—every year she was growing fonder of Cimiez.

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria. ... $45), while in Q: A Voyage Around the Queen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 672 pp., $35), ...

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 ...

In “Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,” Anne Somerset insightfully describes the arc of Victoria’s reign by tracking what amounted to a shifting variety of governing partnerships.

Now is your chance to own a rare set of floral canvases by Queen Victoria, the famed British monarch who reigned over the empire from 1837 until her death in 1901.The large oil paintings will be ...