Queen Victoria was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India from. Her reign lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch. Her reign marked the gradual establishment of modern constitutional monarchy. It created the concept of the 'family monarchy' with which the middle classes could identify. Internationally Queen Victoria was a major figure, not only in terms of Britain's influence through the empire, but also because of the family links throughout Europe's royal families. She also earned an affectionate nickname "the grandmother of Europe".
1. Victoria was christened 'Alexandrina Victoria'. However, from birth she was formally addressed as Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent. 2. Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London. 3. Queen Victoria was born on the 24 May in 1819. Her father died eight months after she was born. 4. Queen Victoria came to the throne when she was only 18 years of age on June 20, 1837. Her coronation was a year later on 28 June 1838. 5. At the age of 21, Victoria married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, a German Prince. 6. Victoria had nine children, 40 grand-children and 37 great-grandchildren, scattered all over Europe. 7. Queen Victoria reigned for exactly sixty-three years, seven months, and two days (June 20, 1837 - January 22, 1901). Queen Victoria is our longest ever serving monarch. 8. Her husband Albert died in 1861 at the young age of 42. She mourned his death for almost 10 years. For the rest of her reign she wore black. 9. Queen Victoria was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace. 10. Queen Victoria died on 22 January, 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was 81. 11. Queen Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. He became King Edward VII. 12. Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward (Duke of Kent) and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. 13. Both Queen Elizabeth, the Queen today, and her consort (as her husband is known), the Duke of Edinburgh, are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria. 14. Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister when Victoria became queen. Melbourne was fifty-eight and a widower. Melbourne's only child had died and he treated Victoria like his daughter. 15. She wore a white wedding dress and ushered in the world wide trend of brides wearing white.
Queen Victoria became queen when she was 18. She had 9 children. Married her cousin. Her corrantion was on 28th of june 1838 . She was born at Kensington Palace in London.
