Although English was the predominant language, German was spoken with various members of the family – it was by no means an uncommon language at Buckingham Palace in the late nineteenth century. Queen ...

Victoria was unimpressed. As queen, however, she interviewed German, Dutch and even Russian princes, and found them all unsatisfactory. In truth she was not interested in marrying, as she was ...

Queen Victoria married Prince Albert from Germany. The queen's reign is known as the Victorian age. Nearly 200 years ago, Britain had a queen called Victoria. She was tiny – less than a metre ...

Among the other guidelines for the future queen: "the Princess is to sleep ... the Kensington System Rules and administered by Victoria’s German governess Baroness Louise Lehzen and her mother ...