QUEEN VICTORIA 1819 -1901 Victoria was

QUEEN VICTORIA 1819 —

Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. She was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24 th, 1819.

Edward died when Victoria was but eight months old In 1837 Queen Victoria took the throne after the death of her uncle William IV.

He was interested in the arts, science, trade and industry Her marriage to Prince Albert brought nine children between 1840 and 1857.

Queen Victoria is associated with Britain’s great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set.