Highland masterpiece by Queen Victoria's favourite artist sells for £5.9m ⊕
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24 days ago
Scene in Braemar, by Queen Victoria's favourite artist Sir Edwin Landseer, fetched five times the previous record for one of his works.
30 days ago
State functions, public access and office space: the plans for revamped Buckingham Palace ⊖
King Charles will never live in landmark despite £369m upgrade, but aides stress it will remain ‘buzzing hive’ of royal activity
Not all modern British monarchs have viewed the prospect of moving into…
41 days ago
Time to leave the lace wedding dress on the rack? Stylist reveals why bridal favourite is actually unflattering and 'overdone' ○
It's a bridal look that dates back to 1840 when Queen Victoria wed in a white Honinton lace dress.
Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature ⊕⊕
This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution an…
47 days ago
Serena Williams dominates in her first tennis match since 2022 as American icon and her partner Victoria Mboko ease to victory at Queen's ⊕
The Queen's club in West London might be named after Queen Victoria, but there was only one queen in town on Tuesday evening - and only one Victoria, too.
62 days ago
Bank Holiday prankster places giant Walnut Whip chocolate bar on head of Queen Victoria ⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
An artist known as DLR placed the chocolate crown - actually made of polystyrene - on the bronze statue on Saturday.
82 days ago
Unique photos reveal Britain's weirdest tourist attractions - including a fairy glen, 'house in the clouds', and a pyramid built by Queen Victoria ⊖
From a fox carved from an old plant, to a nuclear war bunker the size of 33 homes hidden under a bungalow, these are some of Britain's strangest sites.
3 months ago
Heart-shaped golden locket which Queen Victoria gifted her granddaughter is set to fetch £2,500 at auction ⊕
The gold locket was given by the Monarch to her goddaughter, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, as a gift in 1896.
World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations
At 194 years old, Jonathan, the giant tortoise, was a youngster when Queen Victoria …
World's oldest known tortoise dies aged 193: Jonathan - who met the late Queen when she was a princess - 'passes away peacefully' ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
When the reptile was born, Queen Victoria had yet to take the British throne, Charles Darwin had not visited the Galapagos, and Germany was a chaotic collection of 39 sovereign states.