The bleeding disorder haemophilia B was unwittingly introduced into the royal families of Europe by Queen Victoria, before nine of her descendants died from the disease. They included her youngest ...

Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Flora Vesterberg reveals autism diagnosis at 30 - Vesterberg, 30, said she hoped to raise autism ...

Victoria found this very chafing and relished her new-found freedom from such restrictions when she ascended the throne, aged just 18 years and 3 weeks old. The idea of Queen Victoria keeping a ...

Just over 200 years ago, the future Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, Her arrival, on 24 May 1819, marked the ...

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert spread numerous gates and lodge keepers’ cottages around their Isle of Wight estate.

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria. Three of her relatives waged a war whose consequence saw two of them (Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany ...

Brown, who was then 21 and had grown up locally, was working as a ghillie on the estate and was made leader of the queen's pony by Albert, a role which saw him accompany Victoria as she rode out.

From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social media. Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) saw an unprecedented ...