Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated like family, but also subject to strict control, according to ...

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun opens with a runaway locomotive barreling straight down the tracks toward you. Before it reaches your point of view, however, the scene switches to quick clips of key ...

Victoria's Empire is a three-part British travel series that was first broadcast on BBC One in 2007. It was fronted by comedienne and actress Victoria Wood. Wood travelled around the world in search ...

Queen Victoria also enjoyed cocaine, legal at the time. Go back just over 150 years, and you find the person at the front and centre of one of the world's biggest drug empires wasn't a cartel or ...

Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She reigned for more than 60 years, longer than any other British monarch. Her reign was a period of significant social ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

Judi Dench plays Queen Victoria (again), bonding with an Indian clerk in a drama that seems uncomfortably cozy with empire. In “Victoria & Abdul,” a gilded let’s-tweak-the-Empire-but-not-really ...

Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Khalsa Empire (1801–1839) stood as the only major Indian power the British couldn’t conquer during his lifetime. Centred at Lahore Fort, enriched by the Koh-i-Noor, world-class ...