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There are some 1,500 royal place names in the country, mostly in Ontario, Quebec and B.C.

Births, abdications and makeovers for the world’s royal families in 2019

This week marks the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s granting Royal Assent to the British North America Act

A new TV series shows her as a flirty teenage queen. But is there such a thing as too much royal sex?

The Victorian and Elizabethan eras were marked by massive change

Our annotated breakdown of how Windsor Castle’s bibliographer measured the exact minute Queen Elizabeth II will take the crown for longest reign

A.N. Wilson’s bio of Queen Victoria uncovers a personal life ignored by earlier historians

Two gentlemen editors censored a queen and created a legend

A review of ’Censoring Queen Victoria: How Two Gentlemen Edited a Queen and Created an Icon’ by Yvonne Ward

Patricia Treble on the latest episode and the rituals of mourning