Queen Victoria Complied with Jaroslavzeva Yulia Historical faculty

Queen Victoria Complied with: Jaroslavzeva Yulia Historical faculty First course

Victoria - the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland since June 20, 1837, the empress of India since May 1, 1876, the last representative of the Hanover dynasty on a throne of Great Britain Victoria stayed on a throne more than 63 years — more, than any other British monarch.

Victoria was born in Kensington Palace in 1819 (May 24). The first name — Alexandrina — is given her in honor of the Russian emperor Alexander I who was her Godfather. Father Victoria there was the fourth son of king George IIIEdward August, Duke of Kentish. The princess Saksen. Koburgskaya was mother of future queen.

Victoria ascended to a throne on June 24, 1837 In the first year of its board one of journalists noted: "She for a minute doesn't leave the post - the most hardworking and obligatory queen in the world".

in January, 1840 the queen declared the forthcoming marriage. The prince Albert Saksen. Koburgsky was her elect. It had Victoria the cousin on the maternal line. Marriage of Victoria and Albert.

At Victoria and Albert 9 children were born, through the children and grandsons Victoria became "the Grandmother of Europe.

It is difficult to imagine, what tragedy Albert's death at the age of 42 years turned back for Victoria. Having lost it, it lost at once everything: as the woman — love and the most rare spouse, as the queen — the friend, the adviser and the assistant.

Results of the Victorian era: country blossoming stability growth of the income expansion of possession technical progress Innovations of the Victorian era: street lighting, sidewalks, sanitation and hygiene, plumbing and sanitary, subway, kitchen equipment and cans, photo, music boxes and mechanical piano, toys, cards. Even practice of gifts and the dramatized celebration of Christmas.

The Victoria died in Osborn house, on the Isle of Wight, on January 22, 1901, on the 82 nd year of life and the 64 th year of reign, in the presence of the beloved grandson, the German emperor Wilhelm II. It was buried near the husband in the Frogmorsky mausoleum.

Even the most poisonous critics didn't dare to deny that infinite decades of its board rallied the nation, turned the country into the empire and set it forward. To British the queen "left sound inheritance, and it was the best propaganda for a