Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years but the monarch was also major player in the opium trade, and she has now been named the ...

The 'most successful drug kingpin of all time' was recently named by Time magazine and below we look back at the monarch's ...

So when Lin Zexu and his men dumped 2.5 million pounds of British opium into the sea, she reacted like any all-powerful imperial teenager would: She declared war on China, known as the First Opium ...