Prince Albert died at the age of 42. The Queen was inconsolable with grief and wore mourning for the rest of her life. Victoria withdrew from public life after Albert's death, but kept up with her ...

She was Queen of the ... aged 42, Victoria was extremely upset. She had loved him very much. She was so sad she decided to dress in black clothes for the rest of her life. Britain changed a ...

On the same day in May 1856 that Queen Victoria held a review in Hyde Park at which she distributed the first Victoria Crosses, earned in the Crimea, she learned of the likelihood that many more ...