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 ...

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.