At just 4ft 11in tall, Victoria was a towering presence as a symbol of her Empire ... Queen – who often rode in an open carriage – was the target of eight attempts to kill or assault her ...

Her entourage traveled in state carriages ... Gladstone's unpopular doctrine of diminishing Empire. Mahdi. Hulton Getty Picture Archive. The Queen's experience of colonial Africa had been even ...

The footage features Queen Victoria - sometimes known as the ‘Famine Queen’ as she reigned throughout Ireland's Great Hunger- during her 1900 visit to Ireland. She died in January 1901 at the ...

Victoria knew she was rather plain, with her chief and perhaps only asset her position as queen of the mightiest empire on the globe ... Hostile except during his highly visible but temporary ...

She was Queen ... lot during her reign. Steam railways spread across the country. People had their photos taken for the first time. They even enjoyed the first chocolate Easter eggs! As Victoria ...

During her reign the British Empire reached the height of its prestige and she ... Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St Paul's cathedral. Queen Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838, aged 19. The ...