Queen Victoria Archives

Celebrating Mother’s Day 2021 at the palaces

However you’re celebrating today, a very happy Mother’s Day from Historic Royal Palaces! Through the centuries, the...

Welcome to our second HRP Handover blog for Black History Month 2020! Throughout October we’re inviting...

With the exhibition, Victoria: Woman and Crown, coming to an end at Kensington Palace, Curatorial Assistant...

Season Two of Historic Royal Palaces’ Outliers podcast is here – our history fiction podcast that...

Today is the 200th birthday of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861). Professor John R Davis, director of...

I would not want to give the impression that Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was a lazy queen....

Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. India had been under crown control since...

As an old lady, Queen Victoria is an icon. Instantly recognisable, swathed in black, face grim-set...

On 24th May 1819 at Kensington Palace, Queen Victoria was born. On 24th May 2019, her...

The State Apartments at Kensington Palace opened to the public on the 24th May 1899, Queen...