Queen Victoria (1819-1901) might be considered the queen of working mothers. She had nine children and ruled the largest empire on earth. But Victoria—Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...

Queen Victoria was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. ... The Guardian quotes journalist Julia Baird’s take on the topic of Queen Victoria and women’s rights.

In 1842, Queen Victoria faced two assassination attempts by 19-year-old John Francis in London. Despite a close call, she survived both attacks unscathed.

On the 6th March 1882, Queen Victoria wrote to her daughter Vicky: ‘It is worth being shot at, to see how much one is loved.’ A few days earlier, a young man named Roderick Maclean had fired a ...

Like her grandfather George III, Victoria ruled as a constitutional monarch—a queen who, though possessing powers of her own, shared the burden of governance with Parliament and its ministers.