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VICTORIA THE QUEEN: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire, by Julia Baird. Random House, 696 pp., $35. Queen Victoria dominated an age and inspired a word, “Victorian,” to capture the ...

A rare copy of a Queen Victoria biography, complete with hand-written annotations by the monarch, is going under the hammer at Sotheby’s London on November 24 with a presale estimate of ...

Julia Baird’s biography of Queen Victoria puts a lot of sparkling life into a monarch who was not amused. This is a gushing, colourful rave of a book by the Sydney-based journalist, writer and ...

Queen Victoria may just be one of the most recognizable figures in world history, a ruler who lent her name to an entire age. But Julia Baird writes persuasively in a new biography that the “real” ...

Lucy Worsley enjoyed history when she was at school, but her father had other ideas. “He is a scientist, and he really wanted me to be one too,” the British historian tells TIME, ahead of the U.S.

We’ve all heard of Victoria and Albert. Their marriage was the love story of all royal love stories, brought to life in the recent PBS series Victoria. Some of us also know about Victoria and John ...

The family tree for the British royal family is pretty confusing. And the line of succession to the crown is even more complicated. Queen Elizabeth II was born Princess Elizabeth and succeeded her ...

Queen Victoria and John Brown were lovers, according to Channel 4, which says it has uncovered 'extraordinary' new evidence of the monarch's secret affair. The British monarch of 63 years, from 1837 ...