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Who was queen victoria of england on 19 century???

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  1. She became Queen at the age of 18 in 1837, and reigned until her death in 1901.  At the age of twenty, she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg (a German state), and they had nine children.  

    During Victoria's reign there were immense advances in science, industry and education.  Prince Albert was keenly interested in technology and science, and he created the Great Exhibtion in 1851, which displayed works of engineering, technology, and novelties from all around the world.  Albert's death in 1861 was a terrible shock to the Queen and led to a prolonged period of mourning during which she was reluctant to perform any public duties, though she continued to work hard in private.  Eventually, however, she started to appear in public more often and recovered her popularity.

    Queen Victoria was a woman of very strong opinions, and although she had no real political power, she continued throughout her reign to express her opinions forcefully and eloquently to her ministers.  She formed a very close friendship with her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, a Whig (later known as Liberals) and when his government was defeated in an election, she brought about a constitutional crisis by refusing to dismiss her Whig ladies-in-waiting and replace them with Tories.  The new prime minister, Robert Peel, had to resign as a result, and much to Victoria's delight, she got Lord Melbourne back again.  Later in her reign she formed a very close friendship with another prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, but she never got on with his rival William Gladstone, whom she refered to in conversation as "the abominable old G man"

    It was Disraeli's idea to make the Queen Empress of India, which delighted her.  She had very romantic views on India, and in her old age formed a very close relationship with one of her Indian servants, known as the Munshi.  She reached a new peak of popularity at the time of her Golden Jubilee (1887).

    Queen victoria had a passion for Scotland and all things Scottish, her favourite place of residence was Balmoral, in the Scottish highlands.  Her scottish servant John Brown was very close to her, until his death in 1881.  In old age she took to travelling to warmer climes, she was particularly fond of the French Riviera.                            

    By the time she died she had a huge number of descendents.  She died in the arms of her oldest grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, with whom Britain would later go to war.


  2. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch to date. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era.

    Though Victoria ascended the throne at a time when the United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy in which the king or queen held few political powers, she still served as a very important symbolic figure of her time. The Victorian era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution, a period of significant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom. Victoria's reign was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire; during this period it reached its zenith, becoming the foremost global power of the time.

    Victoria, who was almost entirely of German descent and a native German speaker, was the granddaughter of George III, the niece of William IV, who was her predecessor and was a descendant of most major European royal houses. She arranged marriages for her nine children and forty two grandchildren across the continent, tying Europe together; this earned her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe."[1] She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Later, in the United Kingdom, her grandson King George V changed the house name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the (currently serving) House of Windsor in 1917.


  3. she was the queen of england.

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