Queen Victoria

since 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 09:57 UTC

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3 hours ago

‘He can’t have it both ways’: royal watchers at Buckingham Palace react to Prince Harry

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 17:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Harry’s gripes about personal security and call for reconciliation with his family elicit mixed responses

It was the usual chaos outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday afternoon. Tourists squashed them…

11 days ago

Subtle warning signs of deforming 'medieval disease' that's hit Josie Gibson and is on the rise in the UK

found 2025 › Apr › 22 (Tue) @ 11:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The TV presenter, 40, said she was diagnosed after living a lavish lifestyle as part of a travel documentary. She shares her diagnosis with figures like Henry VIII and Queen Victoria.

13 days ago

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 08:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London
British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show…

23 days ago

Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan review – hilarious, beautiful and very violent

found 2025 › Apr › 10 (Thu) @ 07:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A hapless young idealist sets sail for utopia, in this wild epic of colonial chaos in the late 18th-century Americas

In that dimple of European history between the French Revolution and the coronation…

31 days ago

Britain's oldest magazine for women The Lady could be set to fold after 140 years as it crashes into liquidation

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 23:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Founded two years before Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee, The Lady is Britain's oldest - and stateliest - magazine for women.

35 days ago

The UK has its very own pyramid - but do YOU know where it is?

found 2025 › Mar › 29 (Sat) @ 10:23 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Tucked away in the stunning Cairnogorms National Park in Aberdeenshire and overlooking the Scottish highlands is Prince Albert's cairn - erected by Queen Victoria in 1861.

The UK has a top secret Pyramid to rival the ones in Egypt - but you won't believe where it is

found 2025 › Mar › 29 (Sat) @ 08:31 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Tucked away in the stunning Cairnogorms National Park in Aberdeenshire and overlooking the Scottish highlands is Prince Albert's cairn - erected by Queen Victoria in 1861.

44 days ago

Expert reveals Britain's 50 best afternoon teas you MUST try: From high tea with dainty china and champagne to modest tearoom scones

found 2025 › Mar › 20 (Thu) @ 18:18 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

In the 1840s, when Queen Victoria's close friend suggested tea and a little bread and butter to stave off 3pm hunger pangs, she unwittingly lit the flame on a national love affair with afternoon tea.

52 days ago

Outfits worn by Princess Diana and Queen Victoria go on display in new Kensington Palace exhibition that lifts the lid on royal 'dress codes' writes REBECCA ENGLISH

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

From Princess Diana 's daring tuxedo gown to Queen Victoria 's mourning bodice, a new Kensington Palace exhibition lifts the lid on royal 'dress codes'.

54 days ago

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Who said 'Everybody likes flattery; and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel'?

found 2025 › Mar › 10 (Mon) @ 07:09 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

This was two-time prime minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81). It courted him favour with Queen Victoria, who he drew out of her long mourning period following her husband Albert's death.

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