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• Birth name : Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent
• Height : 5' (1.52 m)
• Born in 1819, Victoria was an only child of Edward, the Duke of
Kent.
• In 1837, she ascended to the throne and became Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland.
• She was only 18 at this time, and the Prime Minister, Lord
Melbourne, served as her educator in political decision-making.
• Victoria soon displayed her iron will, which allowed her to
effectively rule by her own power.
• It was in June of 1840 that the Queen married Prince Albert of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• They happily raised nine children, who were to become important
figures in the major monarchical states of the 20th Century.
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• The Queen's loss of the Prince Consort in December of 1861
drove her into prolonged mourning and depression.
• Her policy-making seemed to change substantially from the
time prior to Albert's death.
• This prolonged mourning kept her occupied for the rest of her
life and played an important role in the evolution of what would
become the Victorian mentality.
• Eventually Victoria became one of Great Britain's most popular
and prominent monarchs.
• She 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.
• Victoria's long reign witnessed an evolution in English politics
and the expansion of the British Empire, as well as political and
social reform on the continent.
• Queen Victoria died of natural causes in January of 1901.
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1819
1837
Princess
Victoria
Born
Victoria
Becomes
Queen
1840
1840
1857
1861
Marries
Prince
Albert
First
Child
Born
Last
Child
Born
Death of
Prince
Albert
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1901
Death of
Queen
Victoria