The pub was named after Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert who married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858, when it opened as a beer house next to the Whitechapel County Court in 1859. By the 1890’s it was owned by Truman, Hanbury & Co who built the current building in 1913. It is typical of their designer, Edward Sewell’s work. The main ground-floor bar was originally divided, with the serving counter in the south-west corner diagonally opposite the entrance. To the rear was a single-storey public room. There was a four-bedroom dwelling above. The pub went to S&N and then Shepherd Neame in 2005. It is a two room pub with a garden to the rear.