Go back just over 150 years, and you find the person at the front and centre of one of the world's biggest drug empires wasn't a cartel or street thugs in South America but a queen.

Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the Industrial ...

Victoria and Albert’s wedding brings the nation together in celebration. Victoria and Albert’s wedding brings the nation together in celebration, and starts the tradition of the white wedding dress.

A Midwestern therapist with a mullet, tattoos and nose piercing may be a descendant of Queen Victoria’s secret lovechild, a British historian has claimed. Angela Webb-Milinkovich, a mental-health ...

Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II. By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author, most recently, of “Bloody Panico!: Or, Whatever ...

Once a favored holiday destination for Queen Victoria, and reputedly described in one of the greatest works of Italian literature, the Villa Palmieri is steeped in history and could now be yours – if ...

Sweet treats had been a part of nuptial feasts for centuries, but Queen Victoria's tiered white cake took the tradition to new heights. Queen Victoria’s wedding cake was topped by Britannia, a female ...

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 death ...

WINNIPEG, Canada, July 2 (Reuters) - Protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in the Canadian city of Winnipeg as anger grows over the discovery of the remains of ...