This section offers some interesting and often personal glimpses of Victorian royalty (not just Queen Victoria!), contemporary royalty in other countries, and royals throughout history. Victorian-Age Royalty (at home and abroad) Girls' Own Paper - 1880 (Vol. 1) The Girlhood of Queen Victoria Girls' Own Paper - 1880-1881 (Vol. 2) Her Majesty's Household, and How It Is Governed, by Ardern Holt The Queen's Domestic Life, by Ardern Holt Girls' Own Paper - 1881-1882 The Empress of Japan The Princess Louise in Canada Queen Victoria's daughter Louise, wife of the governer-general of Canada, resided for some time in Ottawa. The Queen of Sweden, by Madame de Bunsen Ranavalona II, Queen of Madagascar, by Abraham Kingdon The first Christian queen of Madagascar. Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887 Carmen Sylva, Poetess and Queen, by Rev. John Kelly Queen of Roumania. The Strand - 1891 Pictures with Histories Particularly noteworthy is the first picture in this article: A sketch by Queen Victoria of her first baby; next up is a copy of the first portrait of Queen Victoria painted after her coronation (nice for those who wonder what she looked like as a young woman). Historic (pre-Victorian) Royalty Girls' Own Paper - 1880 (Vol. 1) The Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth Two Little Queens The two wives of Richard II: Anne of Bohemia, and Isabella of France. Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887 A Daughter of Sorrows A history of Marie Antoinette Elizabeth, Princess Carl of Hesse, by Rev. John Kelly A "Princess of Thule" in the 16th Century, by Rev. Thomas Willson The story of Grana Uaile (aka Grace O'Maley) A Princess Who Lived Two Lives Carolina of Russia (wife of Alexis, son of Peter the Great) Princess William of Prussia, by Rev. John Kelly The Princesses Royal of England Queen Louisa of Prussia, by Rev. John Kelly