Alexandrina Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (a son of George III) and his wife Princess Victoria. She was born at Kensington Palace on 24th May 1819 and succeeded to the ...

click image for close-up American artist Thomas Sully painted this portrait of Fanny ... of society women. In 1837 he was sent to England to paint Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria was the first monarch to take up residence in July 1837, just three weeks after her accession, and in June 1838, she was the first British sovereign to leave from Buckingham Palace ...

In 2017, Royal Mail estimated the Machin portrait had been reprinted more ... which coincided with Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, are also widely known as the Jubilee issue, even though they ...

He was a member of the Royal Household for more than three decades and inspired one of Queen Victoria’s most famous retorts: ‘We are not amused.’ Now two of the uniforms worn by the ...

Queen Victoria’s mother was originally from Germany ... Her experiences of speaking German will sound familiar to many learners of foreign languages. 07.06.1837 I like Gustav very much; he is very ...

According to National Geographic, some historians point to Charlotte’s portraits ... He was the uncle of Queen Victoria, who ...

A remarkable, inspiring, and influential political, financial, philanthropic, and religious figure, Montefiore led a life ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy tarnished by the extravagance of her royal uncles. She also shaped a new role for the Royal Family, reconnecting it with the public through ...

Rembrandt Peale's writings on the mastodon, the artist's palette, and his portraits of Washington provide important information about early science and artistic practice. Titian Ramsay Peale's ...

Official portraits of the late Queen Elizabeth II have been hanging in public buildings for 70 years, but what should happen to them now that King Charles III has taken the throne? That question ...

Christian Tripodi - author of Edge of Empire ‘Framed by the empire-defining conflicts of the 1857 Indian rebellion and the South African War, Queen Victoria's Wars demonstrates how so-called ‘small ...