Queen Victoria, the Queen’s gg-grandmother, was the only other UK monarch fortunate enough to celebrate a diamond jubilee, back in June 1897. We did a search for ‘diamond jubilee’ in the newspaper archive and found some fascinating stories, letters (not all of them complimentary, interestingly), images, exhibitions and adverts. To give you a flavour of the 1897 celebrations, we’ve posted some images from the newspapers of the day. If you’d like to see more, including a news report of the …

Historical Newspaper Images of the Princess Elizabeth and Her Family With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee taking place this bank holiday weekend, we thought we’d mark this historic occasion by posting a few photos of Princess Elizabeth and her family.  If you’d like to see more photos of the Princess Elizabeth, visit the visit gallery on our Facebook page. – www.facebook.com/TheBritishNewspaperArchive The interesting thing about reading stories in the newspaper archive about the Queen is the fact that she was still …