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Victoria

1819–1901

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, born in 1819, whose sixty three year reign gave its name to an age. The British Empire reached its greatest extent under her, and she was proclaimed Empress of India in 1876. Her long mourning for Prince Albert made the monarchy a symbol of duty and empire.

Facts

Born: 1819, London.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Victoria
Died: 1901, Isle of Wight.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Victoria
Reign: 1837 to 1901.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Victoria
Realm: The United Kingdom and the British Empire.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Victoria
Known for: The Victorian era and the peak of British imperial power.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Victoria

Images

Queen Victoria in 1859, portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Wikimedia Commons)

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