Queen Victoria
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QueenQueen Victoria Victoria
Margit Mõttus2009
Alexandrina Victoria• born 24 May 1819
• only child of EdwardEdward, duke of Kent andVictoria Maria Louisa Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburgof Saxe-Coburg, sister of King Leopold of the Belgians.
• lively, cheerful girl• fond of drawing and
painting
About QueenQueen Victoria
• Victoria came to the throne of England in
1837 after the death of her uncle, King William IV.
She was only 18 years old.
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AlbertPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
(1819 - 1861)
• Victoria met her cousin, when they were both seventeen.
• Albert visited London again in 1839 when they were twenty.
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Victoria immediately fell in love with Albert and proposed marriage.
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Victoria and Albert
• They were married on 11 February, 1840 at the royal chapel of St. James in London
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Guess!
How many children did they have?
Royal Family
• During the next eighteen years Queen Victoria gave birth to nine children- 5 girls and 4 boys.
Victoria and Prince Albert with Five of Their Children by Frederick Winterhalter
Grandmother of Europe
Victoria and Albert
VictoriaVictoria
Princess RoyalPrincess Royal
married Frederick III of Germany,
mother to Kaiser Wilhelm
Albert EdwardAlbert EdwardPrince of WalesPrince of Wales
later king as Edward VII later king as Edward VII
AliceAlice
married the Duke of Hesse
Victoria and Albert
AlfredAlfred
Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
HelenaHelena
married Prince Kristian of Schleswig-Holstein
LouiseLouise
married the Marquis of Lorne
Victoria and Albert
ArthurArthur
Duke of Connaught
LeopoldLeopold
Duke of Albany
BeatriceBeatrice
married Prince Henry of Battenberg
English royalty who mourned her husband's death for 40 years…
• When Albert died of typhoid fevertyphoid fever in December 1861, Victoria was devastated. She did not appear in public for three years.
• Victoria never stopped mourning her beloved prince, wearing black until her death in 1901.
• Queen Victoria died at her house on the Isle of Wight on 22nd January 1901.
• She was buried next to her husband.
• During her reign, the longest in English history, Britain became a world power on which "the sun never set.“
Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria1819 - 1901