I am very happy to announce that my first book about the royals is finally out! Vicky, Dear: The Life of Victoria, Princess Royal, and Empress Frederick…

Victoria Princess Royal with the Greyhound Eos, by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Collection Trust. From her birth until that of her younger brother's, Albert E…

Photographs - Left: Hand-coloured photograph of Victoria, Princess Royal, now Princess Friedrich of Prussia, with her first son, Prince Wilhelm, later Kaiser W…

February 2, 1858, was a cold day and snow fell heavily. At Buckingham Palace, Queen Victoria bid her daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, and son-in-law, Prin…

January 25, 1858 was a raw and chilly morning, but London was in a festive mood. The eldest daughter of the sovereign, Briton’s beloved Vicky, is set to be mar…

After the old Houses of Parliament was burned down and the ensuing problems that occurred while planning the new building, Prime Minister Robert Peel thought o…

Shortly before the early hours of November 21, 1840, Queen Victoria woke up feeling  in utter discomfort. Heavily pregnant with her first child, she was expect…

Victoria, Princess Royal and later known as the Empress Frederick, was intelligent and liberal minded but also suffered from a terrible fate in her adopted lan…

A young Prince Wilhelm, later, the last German Kaiser and King of Prussia.   While Kaiser Wilhelm II was a young man of eighteen, an august relative paid…

Princess Viktoria of Prussia was the second daughter and fifth child of Prince Frederick of Prussia, later Emperor Frederick III, and Victoria, Princess Royal,…

The Empress Friedrich of Germany.  Image: Wikimedia Commons Cronberg, August 5, 1901 - A dispatch to the New York Times reports the passing of Dowager Empr…