Queen Victoria 1837- 1901

1.

Queen Victoria
1837- 1901

2.

Victoria, the only child of Prince
Edward (Duke of Kent) and Princess
Victoria Mary Louisa of SaxeCoburg-Saalfeld, was born on the 24
May in 1819.

3.

Queen Victoria came to the throne when she was
only 18 years of age on June 20, 1837.

4.

At the age of 21,
Victoria married her
cousin, Albert of SaxeCoburg
Gotha,
a
German Prince. They
married on the 10th
February 1840 at the
Chapel Royal in St.
James's Palace.

5.

Wedding dress of Queen Victoria
was a white. Queen Victoria was
the first British ruler who wore a
white wedding dress. In the days
of Victoria the bride was made to
wear dresses of any color, except
white

6.

Queen
Victoria and Prince
Albert had 9 children (4 boys
and 5 girls).

7.

The second daughter of
Queen Victoria, Alice Maud
Mary,
married Louis IV,
Grand Duke of Hesse. Their
sixth child, Princess Alix
Viktoria
Helena
Luise
Beatrice, married Nicholas II
and
became
Tsarina
of
Russia.
Nicholas became engaged to
Alix of Hesse in April 1894.
Alexandra Fedorovna

8.

Prince Albert died in 1861 at the young age of
42. Victoria mourned his death for almost 10
years. For the rest of her reign she wore black.

9.

Whilst Victoria was Queen
there was a tremendous
change in the lives of
British
people:
Britain
became the most powerful
country in the world, with
the largest empire that had
ever
existed,
ruling
a
quarter of
the
world's
population.

10.

Queen Victoria died on 22 January,
1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of
Wight. She was 81. Queen Victoria
died in 1901, at the age of 81.

11.

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