Popular English drama “Victoria” overplays the extent to which Queen Victoria sought to aid the famine Irish in the 1840s, exaggerating her interest in Ireland. On August 2, 1849, British ...

The portrayal of Queen Victoria, ... “In her very long reign, she only visited Ireland four times and one of those times was 1849 when the famine was still raging but coming to an end.

Queen Victoria — who was Monarch for 64 years — faced not one, but seven assassination attempts on her life after taking to the throne in 1837. ... On May 19, 1849, ...

And in 1849, after imprisoning Jindan, the British forced Duleep to sign a legal document amending the Treaty of Lahore, ... Most of the diamonds were removed from Queen Victoria's Regal Circlet.

The stone was originally part of the Lahore Treasure in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan until 1849, when the area was taken over by British colonists and "presented to Queen Victoria in ...

In the history of the United Kingdom, there have been 11 royal consorts. Of those 11, just three have been men—Prince George (married to Queen Anne), Prince Albert (married to Queen Victoria ...

On the 6th March 1882, Queen Victoria wrote to her daughter Vicky: ‘It is worth being shot at, to see how much one is loved.’ A few days earlier, a young man named Roderick Maclean had fired a ...