From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...

Although English was the predominant language, German was spoken with various members of the family – it was by no means an uncommon language at Buckingham Palace in the late nineteenth century. Queen ...

It wasn't until Queen Victoria's German roots publicly influenced the English-speaking world. Queen Victoria’s mother, Marie Louise Victoria the Duchess of Kent, was German, along with Queen ...

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

The Victorian era in Britain (1837-1901) was a time of significant cultural shifts, and Queen Victoria, alongside her ...

17th-century German settlers brought the tradition to North America. The tradition didn't catch on with most Americans until Queen Victoria popularized it. In 1846, Victoria and her German husband ...

When war began in 1914, no fewer than eight countries were ruled by descendants of Queen Victoria. Three of her relatives waged a war whose consequence saw two of them (Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany ...