Women tried to replicate Victoria's fashions while some men copied Albert's hairstyle and moustache. Prince Albert died at the age of 42. The Queen was inconsolable with grief and wore mourning ...

Let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but with totally different duties and vocations.’ However, there was one woman determined to flout such societal norms: Lady Florence Boot. Such was ...

They were given to one of Queen Victoria’s maids who passed them onto her family who kept them safe for generations. They were recently discovered hanging in a wardrobe of a house of a family ...

Queen Victoria was furious with then-Prime Minister Lord Salisbury over his government's failure to bring Jack the Ripper to justice during his infamous 1888 killing spree. The revelation comes ...

Queen Victoria’s reign over the British Empire was marked by expanded industrialization and a profusion of ornament, as seen in the women’s fashions of the time, featuring gloves and fans and ...

The Marchioness, who had been Princess Victoria of Hesse, was Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, spanning two very different worlds. Even more remarkably, a statue of her sister now looks out ...

An 1848 etching featuring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorating an evergreen tree influenced how people decorate for the holidays Marina Watts is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

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There's one woman to thank for that. Well, one woman and her parents, they did name her after all. It's, Queen Victoria. The clue's in the name. This absolute powerhouse of a monarch reined from ...

When the battle for women’s rights kicked off some three centuries later, Queen Victoria wrote that feminists “ought to get a good whipping” and that really, a woman’s role was that of a ...