Topic: Queen Victoria

Victoria's secret: Late queen's bloomers bust record

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Queen Victoria's underwear sold for record prices, but a four-poster bed in which actress Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her eighth honeymoon failed to set bidders at an Edinburgh auction on fire.One of the world's biggest private collections of 19th century ...

Royal snapshots: Bride Vroom and withdrawn invitation

(Reuters Life!) - Following is a selection of stories related to the April 29 royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton that have appeared in newspapers and on websites in the last week.(Reuters does not vouch for the accuracy of ...

Royal wedding to make Kate top UK girls' name

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Kate is likely to be one of the most popular names for baby girls born in Britain next year following the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, an ancestry website predicted Thursday.Ancestry.co.uk found that 230 million birth ...
Westminster Abbey, English royalty's church of choice for weddings, coronations, and funeralsWestminster Abbey has been at the religious heart of the English — and later British — monarchy for some 1,000 years, regularly hosting coronations and funerals. Unusually, the church is a ...
As you walk the beautiful halls of the palace, ?you travel on a chronological trip through the brief history of the Belgian Royal House, beginning with Leopold I, who was the Duke of Saxe and Prince of Coburg Saalfed. He was the ...

History of the English Regency

In other words, it stretches from the point at which George III was forced to informally step aside in favour of his son George IV, until George III's death and his replacement by George IV in 1820. However, George III was also ...
If castles are the thing that floats your boat , then there is no better place than the north east of Scotland ,to explore a wealth of Scottish history. Coming in all shapes and sizes, from rugged structures, to fairytale towers, and ...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and fifteen other sovereign states.She is one of the most famous women on earth but has never given an interview.She became Queen at the age of 25, ...

The Queen In New York

Queen Elizabeth II, of England, set foot on American soil for the third time in her life this past Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Some of the families of the victims of 9/11 conversed with Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip. Elizabeth?s ...
Why?The Kensington Palace where Princess Diana was living with other Royalties such as Princess Margaret and the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Princess Diana had an apartment there after she divorced Prince Charles. Princess Diana's apartment will be used as an office ...
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