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

Let's learn about Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor. She was also the first Indian woman to earn a two-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

Popular English drama “Victoria” overplays the extent to which Queen Victoria sought to aid the famine Irish in the 1840s, exaggerating her interest in Ireland. On August 2, 1849, British ...

For a woman who was reportedly none too keen on having children, it may come as a surprise that Queen Victoria's genetic legacy has had such far-reaching and monarchy-defining power. With nine ...

Born into royalty but raised in exile, Prince Victor Duleep Singh—grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh—lived a life of privilege ...

Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of statues featuring women in the city of London. A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up ...

A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction in London next week. Three of the sketches were made when the British queen, who reigned from 1837 until her ...