Queen Victoria is one of history’s biggest icons. From ascending the throne with little life experience when she was aged just 18, Victoria went on to set numerous trends and break countless records – even during her forty years of widowhood.
On this page, you can find links to a variety of articles about Queen Victoria, her relationship with Albert and many other key aspects of her life and reign!
Queen Victoria’s coronation fails
The Royal Disease: Haemophilia and the Royal Family
Chaos turned tradition: Queen Victoria’s final journey from her bed at Osborne to St George’s Chapel
A Royal Reunion: Queen Victoria is buried beside her beloved Albert
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s mutual midwife, Charlotte von Siebold
“Dear little Dash”: Queen Victoria’s childhood companion
Toy or potential disaster? Queen Victoria’s rattle and whistle
An Author Queen: Queen Victoria’s love for Storytelling
“Everyone was terrified”: Queen Victoria’s horse riding accident
Influencing childrenswear: How Queen Victoria popularised the sailor’s suit
“Dreadful irritation, which is most unpleasant”: Queen Victoria and chickenpox
Queen Victoria’s 35th Birthday at Osborne House
A royal curiosity: Queen Victoria and the Blackgang whale
“The white sails of the yachts had such a charming effect”: Queen Victoria and Cowes Week
The Durbar Room at Osborne House
‘An impressive spectacle of its kind’: Queen Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall
A mutual love: Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens
Queen Victoria vs Bob the crocodile
Queen Victoria falls down the stairs at Windsor Castle, days before the death of John Brown
Primrose Day: Queen Victoria’s gift to a friend
The unconventional relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim
An elephant at Osborne: King John of Abyssinia’s unusual gift to Queen Victoria
The unusual items buried in Queen Victoria’s coffin
Queen Victoria’s burial instructions
The Penny Black and Two Penny Blue: The history behind adhesive stamps
Queen Victoria’s first train ride
Queen Victoria’s 14th century bal costumé, 1842
Queen Victoria’s Georgian bal costumé, 1845
The opening of the Great Exhibition, 1st May 1851
Influencing the royals: Florence Nightingale and the Royal Family
The laying of the V&A’s foundation stone
Queen Victoria uses a telephone for the first time
A “most touching & elevating” thanksgiving service to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales
“I never saw anything like it”: Queen Victoria opens Manchester’s Ship Canal
Kensington Palace opens it’s doors to the public
“A very pretty sight”: Queen Victoria presents the State Colour to the Scots Guards, 15th July 1899
Queen Victoria’s final arrival in Ireland, 4th April 1900
Unveiling of the Queen Victoria monument outside Buckingham Palace
A “galloping gig” (pushchair) once owned by Queen Victoria is set to sell at auction, 2025
The courtship of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Prince Albert’s terrifying ice skating accident
Prince Albert’s 1842 birthday gift from the Queen
Nellie Clifden: Did the future Kings affair with an “actress” cause the death of Prince Albert?
Mini series: The final illness and death of Prince Albert through Queen Victoria’s letters and journals
Queen Victoria’s journal: Victoria and Albert meet for the second time, 10th October 1839
Victoria, Princess Royal, later German Empress and Queen Consort of Prussia
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII
Princess Alice, later Grand Duchess of Hesse and By Rhine
Prince Alfred, later Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Louise, later Duchess of Argyll
Prince Arthur, later 1st Duke of Connaught
Prince Leopold, later Duke of Albany
Princess Beatrice, later Princess Henry of Battenberg
John Francis’ assination attempt on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, May 1842
Arthur O’Connor’s assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, 29th February 1872
Roderick Maclean’s attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, 2nd March 1882
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