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8 days ago

How Queen Victoria and Queen Mary both endured tragedy - and the other fascinating similarities between the two royals born nearly 48 years apart

Despite being born 48 years apart, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary of Teck have far more in common than first meets the eye - apart from both being the matriarchs of the Royal Family.

12 days ago

How did a would-be assassin of Queen Victoria avoid the death penalty and become an Australian journalist? New Mail podcast follows the long history of deadly plots against Britain's most famous monarch

Prince Albert, Victoria's husband, once asked of his often-targeted wife: 'What's all this mania with Queen shooting?'

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The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London
British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show…

54 days ago

Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan review – hilarious, beautiful and very violent

A hapless young idealist sets sail for utopia, in this wild epic of colonial chaos in the late 18th-century Americas

In that dimple of European history between the French Revolution and the coronation…

62 days ago

66 days ago

The UK has a top secret Pyramid to rival the ones in Egypt - but you won't believe where it is

Tucked away in the stunning Cairnogorms National Park in Aberdeenshire and overlooking the Scottish highlands is Prince Albert's cairn - erected by Queen Victoria in 1861.

74 days ago

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