1819-1901+Queen+Victoria

Queen Victoria

-Was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death

-Was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III

-Both Duke of Kent and King died in 1820 and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her mother.

-Her mother was Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who inherited the thorne at age of 18 since her father's three elder brothers all died without surviving legitimate issue.

-The united kingdom was already an established consititutional monarchy.

-Sovereign held relatively few direct political powers.

-She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840.

-They had nine children and 26 of their 34 grandchildren who survived childhood married into royal and noble families across the continent tying them together and earning her nickname "The Grandmother of Europe"

-After Albert's death in 1861 Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearance.

-Victoria's reign of 63 years and 7 months, which is longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history is known as the Victorian era This was a period of industrial, cultural political, scientific and military change within the United kingdom and was marked bt a great expansion of the British Empire.

-She was the last British monarch of the house of Hanover

-her son and successor Edward VII belonged to the house of Saxe-coburg and Gotha the line of his father.

-After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British East india company, which had ruled much of India, was dissolved and Britain's possessions and pretectorates on the Indian subcontinent were formally incorporated into the British Empire