However, some of the current Royal Family's relatives endured difficult living conditions, with one former queen even finding ...

Prince Albert died at the age of 42. The Queen was inconsolable with grief and wore mourning for the rest of her life. Victoria withdrew from public life after Albert's death, but kept up with her ...

Queen Victoria was on the throne during the height of the British Empire - but her earliest days were spent in lonely ...

While traveling with the empress in South Africa, Marie is credited with saving her life. Marie Downing began serving Queen Victoria after first working as a seamstress for the royal children.

Queen Victoria married Prince Albert from Germany ... She was so sad she decided to dress in black clothes for the rest of her life. Britain changed a lot during her reign. Steam railways spread ...

Know the story of a man who was sent as a clerk from Agra to England to serve the Queen, and how ended up becoming a ...

Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, lived perhaps the most unexpected life. The sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria and Albert, she was a strong supporter of ...

As Queen Victoria wrote in her diary ... Though she suffered from fragile health most of her life, and died of tuberculosis before the age of 40, Sarah was survived by her husband, the wealthy ...

It's the heart of many a fairy tale — a young woman rising from humble beginnings to a life of luxury in a grand palace. But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen ...

For Victoria, who would never venture ... Bored with his life as an elevated gentleman-in-waiting, he appealed to the Queen, who told him "it would never do." Still, he went personally to the ...