Overview :At the age of nineteen, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, stepped into the glittering court of the Romanovs, begi... Read More
Overview :In the summer of 1914 the capitals of Europe erupt in a patriotic frenzy as peoples on all sides, roused by the press, rejoice at the outbre... Read More
Overview :Spring 1917 - the war has been raging for over two and a half years and neither the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey) nor... Read More
Overview :On 28th June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife, Sophie Chotek, were shot dead in broad daylight on a crowded street in ... Read More
Overview :Of the ten Victorian Prime Ministers, there were some, like the maverick Palmerston, who never ceased to exasperate Queen Victoria, while ot... Read More
Overview :Throughout her lonely and isolated childhood, with only her dogs and dolls for company, Queen Victoria relished the visits of her cousins, m... Read More
Overview :Born into eight very different families, the upbringing and fortunes of Queen Victoria's grandsons varied widely. Some died in childhood, so... Read More
Overview :On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was 'a very uninteresting thing... Read More
Overview :From a garrulous parrot that embarrassed an Archduke, to an injured fawn carried home in the arms of a Queen, animals featured largely in th... Read More
Overview :Of all Queen Victoria's nine children, none was more intriguing than her second daughter, Alice. The contradictions in her personality are s... Read More
Overview :On a bright summer's day in June 1887, a procession of mounted kings and princes moved sedately through the streets of London in celebration... Read More
Overview :"What a joyous childhood we had " wrote Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. These were no mere words an... Read More
Overview :Almost a century after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II is still viewed as either a warmonger or a madman, as the ... Read More