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Read a brief overview of the subject's life, or longer summaries of major events and achievements. Brief Overview. Context. Victoria's Childhood. The Young Queen. Life with Prince Albert. The Mid-Victorian Years. The Years of Mourning. A Monarchy in Transition.
Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set. Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on 24 May 1819. She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, the ...
When the future Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in 1819, she was fifth in line to the throne. However, by the time she was 18, a quick succession of deaths among her relatives accelerated her to accession. She accepted the crown as an inexperienced teenager; when she died, aged 81, she was known as ‘the Grandmother of Europe’.
7. Feb. 2006 · The future Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son of King George III, and Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786–1861). Edward was the first member of the royal family to reside in Canada for a sustained period of time. He spent the 1790s in Québec City and ...
Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire is an initial step towards understanding and analyzing what its editors regard as the 'unseen power' of the periodical press in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. Contemporary research in periodical literature has demonstrated conclusively that the nineteenth century in Britain was the age of ...
Follow the Queen through a lifetime of leadership. Her Majesty. Learn about Victoria and her family. The Changing Empire. Discover the people, places and events of Victoria's reign. Secrets of the ...
The Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British Empire changed the world around them beyond recognition. This timeline outlines key moments in the life which Victoria and Albert shared together as well as Victoria’s personal accounts of these events, extracted from her journals. Access the archive here.
