VICTORIA THE QUEEN: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire, by Julia Baird. Random House, 696 pp., $35. Queen Victoria dominated an age and inspired a word, “Victorian,” to capture the ...

Who was the most notorious drug kingpin of all time? You might think it was Pablo Escobar, or maybe El Chapo—but you’d be wrong. More than 100 years before those guys were born, there was an ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Queen Victoria spent the majority of her reign wearing black, to mourn the ...

IN the summer of 1861, Queen Victoria and her family went up to Balmoral. Crown Prince Frederick and Vicky came over to England in June and remained for nearly two months. Prince Louis, the fiancé of ...