• Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire.
  • An 1883 painting of Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901), taken from an 1882 photograph by Alexander Bassano.
  • She's known as the teen queen of Britain, but Queen Victoria was also a mom. Queen Victoria acceded to the throne in 1837 when she was 18 years old.
  • Queen Victoria was often called the ‘Grandmother of Europe’ because eight of her nine children married into European royal families.
  • 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.
  • 1858-01-25 Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia.
  • These little-known facts about Queen Victoria bring the indestructible monarch's story to life, from her tragic childhood to her triumphant reign.
  • From her great sense of humor to her knowledge of foreign languages, this article examines five of the most interesting facts about Queen Victoria.
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  • Queen Victoria reigned in Britain from 1837-1901. This time is also called the Victorian era. She ruled with her husband, Prince Albert, until he died in 1861.