Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria is often considered England's most noble queen. Born at Kensington Palace, London, on May 24th 1819, Princess Alexandrina Victoria was an only child of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburg. Victoria's father died when she was just eight months old. She became the heiress-apparent when her uncle George IV died in 1830. When her uncle William IV (George IV's brother) died without any children in 1837, she became Queen of England at the age of eighteen. She was crowned the following year.In 1839, Victoria met her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg when he visited London. She fell in
The world's first international exhibition, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was a great success. love with him, and eventually asked him to marry her. Victoria had traditional views on the role of the wife and mother, and though she was Queen and Albert was Prince Consort, he shared government responsibilities equally in the same way. After a time in power of sixty-three years, the longest in Britain's history, Queen Victoria died of natural causes on January 22nd 1901 at the age of eighty-one years old. For the rest of her time in power she wore black and until the late 1860s she rarely appeared in public. It saw many political reforms, social reforms, and advancements in industry. Victoria and Albert were married on February 10th 1840. Yet, she recovered, although never fully, and became one of Great Britain's most popular and prominent monarchs. She had relied on Albert on advice and support, and her long-term sorrow caused her a fall in public support. Victoria was named Empress of India in 1876, which was an event that showed the interest of the Queen and Great Britain in world colonization, throughout the 19th Century. Over the next twenty years, she gave birth to four sons and five daughters, who were to become important figures in the major monarchial states of the 20th Century. Her influence remains memorable long after this date. She was buried at Windsor beside Prince Albert, in the Frogmore Royal Mausoleum, which she had built for their graves. Victoria's time in power witnessed many changes in Britain.
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