After losing her beloved Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria went into a pit of despair that she would never leave.Now, historian Dr Kate Vigurs is set to portray a more youthful, happy Victoria.

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

Blunt orders wine, explaining it will "help me down the red carpet." It is one of the few experiences in her life that gave her insight into Queen Victoria, whom she plays as a teenager in the ...

The young queen immediately warms to the country’s prime minister, Lord Melbourne (Rufus Sewell), who carefully teaches and advises Victoria on all the things she doesn’t know.

This holiday season, make way for the Queen — Queen Victoria, that is. But not the sour, black-clad matron you think you know: In The Young Victoria, Emily Blunt plays the monarch before she ...

Making Victoria young Think "Queen Victoria" and the first image that comes to mind is probably that of a heavyset older woman swathed in yards of black silk, a dour expression on her face.

I f Queen Victoria, in the great beyond, had a say in the matter, you could imagine her waving an imperious hand during the casting process for The Young Victoria, demanding that she be played by ...

We Americans get intimidated by this sort of thing. So every so often we need to remind ourselves that the mere spectacle of people walking around in 19th-century costume and talking with English ...