Queen Victoria was just 18 when she ascended the British throne ... Things took an unexpectedly nasty turn thanks to an ...

The Queen’s act was criticised as being unconstitutional. Victoria fell in love with her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha when he visited Britain in 1839. As head of state she ...

Queen Victoria was the first monarch to take up residence ... that she first laid eyes on Albert when he was at Windsor in 1839, and it was in the same apartments that he died on December 14 ...

266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was the Chinese Commissioner in Canton whose actions precipitated the Opium Wars (1839-1842 ... Lin Zexu's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria" was ...

In October 1839 Albert was invited back. Victoria knew she was rather plain, with her chief and perhaps only asset her position as queen of the mightiest empire on the globe. In her diary she ...

Queen Victoria: was all about change ... Luckily, photography was invented in 1839, and Victoria was like, "this blows my mind." Photography was the most accurate way to capture events in detail.