Thank you to TED-ED for inviting me to contribute to the development of a new educational video about Queen Victoria. Click here to watch "Why is Queen Victoria so Controversial?" at TED-ED

Queen Victoria, the Mother of Confederation My most recent article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Queen Victoria and her role in Canadian history as a “Mother of Confederation. ” Queen Victoria succeeded Queen Victoria favoured Confederation and acted as a unifying influence for Canada’s provinces. Queen Victoria also exerted a profound cultural influence, popularizing white wedding dresses, family Click here to read “Queen Victoria” in the Canadian Encyclopedia

The Official Photograph of Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 This weekend, the Diamond Jubilee Victoria in 1897. Victoria’s reign. In contrast, the Diamond Jubilee celebrated Queen Victoria as the matriarch of a global Empire. Canada participated in the celebrations for both Queen Victoria’s and Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilees

Queen Victoria, the Mother of Confederation My latest article in the Queen’s Alumni Review Magazine discusses the impact of Queen Victoria on Canadian history from the earliest years of her reign. “When Queen Victoria granted a royal charter to establish Queen’s College in Kingston in 1841, she was Over the course of her nearly 64-year reign (1837–1901), Victoria shaped key events in Canadian history Click here to read “Queen Victoria and Canada” in the Queen’s Alumni Review

Queen Victoria at the time of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 My latest article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Queen Victoria (who reigned from 1837–1901) was the first monarch to celebrate 60 years on the throne Celebrations to honour the grand occasion — the first Diamond Jubilee — showcased the Queen’s role as Click here to read “Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee – 1897” in the Canadian Encyclopedia

Queen Victoria at the time of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 I discussed the campaign for women’s suffrage I also discuss Queen Victoria’s opposition to women’s suffrage. Although Queen Victoria was the Head of State, she held traditional views about separate spheres for Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter Princess Louise quietly received suffragists and was connected to prominent Click here to read: “What exactly are “suffragettes”, and Why Did Queen Victoria Hate Them?”

Week 43: From Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II In recent weeks, I have been reading new perspectives on the lives and reigns of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, a novel about Queen Elizabeth II, A delicious read with a fresh perspective on Queen Victoria. Victoria and Prince Albert early in Queen Victoria’s reign to the more ceremonial role of the elderly Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.

My latest article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and the Click here to read Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee – 1887 in the Canadian Encyclopedia

The Scandal Mongers podcast with Phil Craig, I compared the disastrous marriage of King George IV and Queen Caroline with the comparatively more harmonious marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert!

Victoria. Queen Victoria, the Mother of Confederation When the Maritime Provinces threatened to abandon the Confederation negotiations, Macdonald traveled to London to discuss Canadian unity with Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria’s birthday was a public holiday in the Province of Canada from 1845. Queen Victoria’s political influence and leadership united the diverse interests of Canada’s provincial

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte and his second wife Gunilla Wachtmeister at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria Victoria, was part of a generation of European royalty that experienced unprecedented changes in the Carl Johan was born in 1916, fifteen years after the death of Queen Victoria and the in the midst of At the time of Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, she had thirty-seven surviving great-grandchildren and Victoria into the 21st century.