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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen Victoria’s court in 1887 to become a modest farmer’s wife in rural America. It was a colossal culture shock from ...