Victoria reign

For many Canadians, Victoria Day is simply a euphemism for long weekend. But for one Thornville, Ont., woman, it's a celebration of a monarch who reigned during a transformational time in history.

Queen Elizabeth II's Relationship to Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria are the two longest-serving monarchs in British history. Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901, established many of the precedents that Elizabeth has honored since she was crowned in 1952. How are the two powerful queens related? What is their family tie?

A national treasure almost disappeared forever.

On her Coronation day the 18-year-old wrote of her awe at seeing ‘the millions of my loyal subjects who were assembled’ and even her adored husband Albert was not immune from her frightful tantrums.

160 years ago, on April 14, 1857, the ninth and final child – “it is a fine child, and a girl!” [1] – of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur…

Victoria was the teen queen who went on to have the longest reign until Queen Elizabeth passed that milestone in September 2015. “Victoria was tiny and very...

Albert encouraged Victoria to believe that she was weak, inadequate and unable to cope without him. In her desire to please him she abdicated most of her responsibilities as monarch to her consort.

Scriptwriter Daisy Goodwin, who based her series on Queen Victoria's own journals, says the monarch called motherhood and pregnancy the 'shadow side of marriage'.