The puritan sides of their personalities clashed with Victoria's ... in the mid-1880s, Lionel's son Nathaniel was granted the peerage denied to his father. The Queen had moved slowly with the ...

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 ...

Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, lived perhaps the most unexpected life. The sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria and Albert, she was a strong supporter of ...

Many attribute the change to Queen Victoria, and it was her marriage to ... the Christmas card industry took off. By the 1880s the sending of cards had become hugely popular, creating a lucrative ...

A pair of baggy bloomers which belonged to Queen Victoria are going under the hammer ... was larger than life in more ways than one in the 1880s and 1890s. “Though she was only 4ft 11ins and ...