Who is queen victoria?

Question

Who is queen victoria?

Answer 1

Queen of England  1837-1901.Empress of India from may1 1876. The longest serving British monarch.

Answer 2

Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) was the longest reigning British monarch and the figurehead of a vast empire. She oversaw vast changes in British society and gave her name to an age

Victoria was born in London on 24 May 1819, the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburg. She succeeded her uncle, William IV, in 1837, at the age of 18, and her reign dominated the rest of the century. In 1840 she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. For the next 20 years they lived in close harmony and had a family of nine children, many of whom eventually married into the European monarchy.

On her accession, Victoria adopted the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne as her political mentor. In 1840, his influence was replaced by that of Prince Albert. The German prince never really won the favour of the British public, and only after 17 years was he given official recognition, with the title of Prince Consort. However, Victoria relied heavily on Albert and it was during his lifetime that she was most active as a ruler. Britain was evolving into a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch had few powers and was expected to remain above party politics, although Victoria did sometimes express her views very forcefully in private.

Victoria never fully recovered from Albert's death in 1861 and she remained in mourning for the rest of her life. Her subsequent withdrawal from public life made her unpopular, but during the late 1870s and 1880s she gradually returned to public view and, with increasingly pro-imperial sentiment, she was restored to favour with the British public. After the Indian Mutiny in 1857, the government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown and in 1877, Victoria became Empress of India. Her empire also included Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, and large parts of Africa. During this period, Britain was largely uninvolved in European affairs, apart from involvement in the Crimean War (1853 - 1856).

In 1887, Victoria's Golden Jubilee and, 10 years later, her Diamond Jubilee were celebrated with great enthusiasm. Having witnessed a revolution in British government, huge industrial expansion and the growth of a worldwide empire, Victoria died on 22 January 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Answer 3

a queen

Answer 4

she was the queen of UK once upon a time and she even ruled India sometime back (i live near by her palace in Calcatta)

Answer 5

Victoria was Queen of England from 1837 to 1901. She ascended the throne at the age of 18.  she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, and they had nine children.  After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria went into a prolonged period of mourning, and retired from public life, which made her very unpopular for a while.  She formed a close friendship with her Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, who had the idea of making her Empress of India.  She regained her popularity as she grew older, and her Golden Jubilee in 1887 was an enormous success, as was the Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

victoria was a very interesting person, with a strong personality and decided views on most subjects.  She expressed her opinions very forcibly to her ministers, though as Britain was a constitutional monarchy, her ability to influence the government was very limited.  she loved the theatre and opera, was an avid reader of novels, and had a passion for Scotland, where she spent part of every year.