A new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, tracks the term’s shifting meanings from the 19th-century opera house to the stadium gigs of today.

But no war affected Victoria as much as the death of Albert in 1861. It left her almost paralyzed with grief: For years she could barely face official duties or appearing in public.

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This coming spring, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the London-based institution focused on design and applied and decorative arts, will debut the V&A East Storehouse, a publicly accessible ...

Steven Parissien’s latest book Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings is published by Head of Zeus in November Books Decorative arts Victoria & Albert Museum Interior ...

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards ...

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Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Consort Albert wedded on February 10, 1840. And while their nuptials went as planned, the monarch was unamused by the customs and traditions of the day.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were cousins, as Victoria’s mother and Albert’s father had been siblings. Albert’s family had long intended for them to marry, yet Victoria and Albert had never met in ...