On the death of William IV his teen-aged niece Alexandrina Victoria is the monarch of Britain. Dominated by her ambitious German mother the Duchess of Kent and her bullyi ...

Victoria's reliance on Melbourne does not go unnoticed amongst the likes of Wellington and Peel and she feels isolated when, defeated over a bill to end slavery in Jamaic ...

Victoria's uncle, Belgian king Leopold, arrives at court, urging her to marry her German cousin Albert whilst the Russian Grand Duke puts himself up as a suitor and Cumbe ...

Despite Leopold's assertion that it is Victoria's destiny to marry Albert she is cool towards her cousin, and more impressed by the new penny post system. However on a vi ...

As Victoria announces her engagement Leopold demands a settlement and a title for Albert. However the privy council, resistant to the marriage, only agree to a reduced st ...

Though happily married to Victoria Albert feels redundant and disrespected by many at the court. When abolitionists approach the royal couple for their active support at ...

Albert is elated when he learns that Victoria is pregnant but she is fearful of dying in childbirth and wants to appoint him as regent for their child - which does not go ...

There is speculation above and below stairs as to the queen's surviving child-birth with predatory heir to the throne Cumberland arriving at court. Now more confident Vic ...

The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert. ...