- Image: Victoria, Duchess of Kent with Princess Victoria in 1821 by Sir William Beechey, RCIN 407169, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
- In the 1800s, Queen Victoria oversaw the expansion of the British Empire—which would cover a fifth of the Earth's surface by the end of the...
- Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria, 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) reigned over the United Kingdom and its empire, the largest the world has ever seen.
- Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from June 20, 1837, and...
- Take Queen Victoria for instance. Scratch the surface of the official PR job and you'll find a cesspit of calamity and controversy bubbling beneath.
- Queen Victoria was often called the ‘Grandmother of Europe’ because eight of her nine children married into European royal families.
- Queen Victoria, born 200 years ago, on May 24, 1819, was christened as Alexandrina Victoria, inheriting her first name from her godfather, Alexander I of Russia.
- Her reign lasted almost 64 years. Queen Victoria is associated with Britain’s great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire.
- Queen Victoria’s Reign. The Victorian era to which she reigned was an amazing period of evolution through industries, culture, science and politics.
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