Victoria reign

A national treasure almost disappeared forever.

Queen Victoria, The Princess Royal, The Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Prince Alfred, 1854. “A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography,” at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, reveals a monarch who quickly adopted a new art form and used it for her own purposes. The queen commissioned Roger Fenton to photograph the royal family at its various residences. Roger Fenton / Royal Collection Trust

Queen Elizabeth took a walk through an immersive experience of how the ballroom at Buckingham Palace would have looked when her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria reigned

English Heritage are highlighting nude sculptures and painting of bathing maidens which they gave each other in a display in the couple’s palatial holiday home on the Isle of Wight.

For many Canadians, Victoria Day is simply a euphemism for long weekend. But for one Thornville, Ont., woman, it's a celebration of a monarch who reigned during a transformational time in history.

Queen Victoria seated at her writing desk. United Kingdom 1892

Until 2015, Queen Victoria was the longest-reigning British monarch - so it's no surprise she continues to be a fascinating subject for many historians and

For more than a century, Albert’s demise was attributed to typhoid fever. More recently, however, a parade of doctors and armchair pathologists have argued that it was something more than an infection that carted the prince away.

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Queen Elizabeth II's Relationship to Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria are the two longest-serving monarchs in British history. Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901, established many of the precedents that Elizabeth has honored since she was crowned in 1952. How are the two powerful queens related? What is their family tie?