Don’t be freaked out though — the story behind the seemingly gruesome and morbid jewelry actually has an interesting history that gives us insight into how Victorians viewed death and the mourning ...

KINSTON — Step back in time with the CSS Neuse Museum to explore the captivating customs of Victorian-era mourning with the program “Mourning Etiquette, Rituals, and Jewelry in the Victorian ...

Sylvia Plath wrote that “Dying is an art.” For Queen Victoria, the real art was in mourning. After her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861, she publicly grieved him until her own death 40 ...

Victorian Mourning Jewelry, containing a lock of hair from the deceased. Source: Thayne Tuason [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons. There were rules of what men and women should wear in each ...

After the death of her husband Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria ushered in a new era of fashionable jewelry—mourning jewels. Now, they will be up for auction at Sotheby's London this month.

Such jewelry dates from the Roman Empire, though it became particularly fashionable in Western Europe after the 1861 death of Prince Albert, after which Queen Victoria observed decades of mourning.

Question: Recently, I was given an old oval, gold-filled brooch, 1 inches long and 1 inch wide. Its outer edge is a border of small, cut black stones surrounding a ...