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Queen Victoria

( 1837-1901)

Who was Queen Victoria?

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). Her reign was the longest of any monarch in British history and came to be known as the Victorian era.

When was Queen Victoria born?

• Queen Victoria was born on the 24 May in 1819.
• Her father died eight months after she was born.

Who were Victoria's parents?

• Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward (Duke of Kent) and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
• Victoria was part of a family of Germans, mainly called George, who came from Hanover
• Prince Edward (1767-1820) was the fourth son of King George lll.

Did you know? Queen Victoria was 5 foot (1.52 m) tall

Childhood and School

Victoria didn't go to school. She was taught at home. As well as learning languages, Victoria studied history, geography, and the Bible. She was taught how to play the piano and learned how to paint, a hobby that she enjoyed into her 60s.

When did Victoria become Queen?

• Queen Victoria came to the throne when she was only 18 years of age on June 20, 1837. Her coronation was a year later on 28 June 1838.

Who did Queen Victoria marry?

• At the age of 21, Victoria married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, a German Prince. They married on the 10th February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace .

How many children did Victoria have?

Victoria had nine children, 40 grand-children and 37 great-grandchildren, scattered all over Europe. Most of Queen Victoria's children married into other royal families of Europe.

How long exactly did Queen Victoria reign?

Queen Victoria reigned for exactly sixty-three years, seven months, and two days (June 20, 1837 - January 22, 1901). Queen Victoria is our longest ever serving monarch.

Why did Queen Victoria wear black?

Her husband Albert died in 1861 at the young age of 42. She mourned his death for almost 10 years. For the rest of her reign she wore black .

Where did Queen Victoria live?

Queen Victoria had many homes. She lived in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Osborne House (Isle of Wight) and Balmoral Castle.

Queen Victoria was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.

Did you know?

Alexandra Fyodorovna (Imperatritsa Aleksandra Fyodorovna) (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was the wife of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born as Alix of Hesse, she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria

Victoria was known as the "Grandmother of Europe" because many of her children and grandchildren married into the royal families of other European countries.

What hobbies did Queen Victoria have?

Queen Victoria loved singing and she enjoyed painting and drawing. She loved going to the opera.

When did Queen Victoria die?

• Queen Victoria died on 22 January, 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was 81.
• Queen Victoria was survived by 6 children, 40 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren, including four future sovereigns of England: Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI.

Where is Queen Victoria buried?

She is buried in a mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor.

Who became the next King or Queen after Victoria?

Queen Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. He became King Edward VII .

How did Britain change whilst Victoria was Queen?

How did Britain change whilst Victoria was Queen?

• Whilst Victoria was Queen there was a tremendous change in the lives of British people:

Britain became the most powerful country in the world, with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population.

The number of people living in Britain more than doubled, causing a huge demand for food, clothes and housing.

Factories and machines were built to meet this demand and new towns grew up, changing the landscape and the ways people lived and worked.

Railways, originally built to transport goods, meant people could travel easily around the country for the first time.

The London Underground, or the Tube as it is often called, is the oldest underground train network in the world. Opened in 1863

Technology and engineering

Even later communication methods such as electric power, telegraph, and telephones, had an impact. Photography was realised in 1839 by Louis Daguerre in France and William Fox Talbot in Britain. By 1889, hand-held cameras were available .

Literature

Victorian Britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature - Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Brontë and her sisters and William Makepeace Thackeray and a lot more…

The first football league in the world was established in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. Aston Villa were the most successful English club of the Victorian era, winning five League titles and three FA Cups by the end of Queen Victoria's reign. Other prominent clubs of the era were Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland and Preston North End. The end of the 19th century saw Britain being swept by football mania, attracting huge crowds of largely working class men.

Football

A Christmas tree

1840s that Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert decided to put up a Christmas tree. It helped popularize the idea of having one through England.

He got the idea from his native Germany where it had already been a small tradition that was beginning to spread.