Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll ... and just a few months after their arrival, Louise's sister, Alice, died, leaving her homesick and grieving. She amused herself ...

The mother-daughter duo looked elegant at the grand Representatives Dinner, for which they chose dramatic gowns and family jewels ...

So when her father died when she was eight months her prospects of becoming queen were good. The princess, known as Victoria, was raised at Kensington Palace. She was educated by her governess ...

But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen Victoria’s court in 1887 to become a modest farmer’s wife in rural America. It was a colossal culture shock from ...