Empires : Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria with her grandchildren, 1800s. Queen Victoria's Drawings. By Maria Popova An unprecedented look at the private journals of Britain’s longest-ruling monarch.
Queen Victoria may be best-known for lending her name to the historical era of social and sexual restraint, but she was also a lively intellectual, a reflective thinker, and a dedicated artist since childhood. Queen Victoria's Journals - Home Page.