Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

Queen Victoria, a prominent monarch, offered a candid perspective on marriage, suggesting that full awareness of its challenges might deter young women from entering it. Her quote highlights the ...

Victoria began her reign in 1837, at the age of 18, and ruled until her death in 1901. Her time as monarch was marked as Britain’s great age of industrialization, economic development, and imperial ...

During the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire profited heavily from exporting opium from colonial India to China, fuelling addiction and sparking the First Opium War after Chinese official ...

In the middle decades of the 19th century, Britain experienced rapid industrial change without suffering revolution or major ...

The phrase first crops up in the episode when Prince Charles (Dominic West) reads aloud a supposed quote from a newspaper article. “Queen Victoria Syndrome? Yes, I saw that,” he says, scanning a copy ...