1882
(‘age 63’)
“alexandrina victoria’
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*the faithfully departed*
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(’24 may 1819′ – ’22 january 1901′)
(‘age 81’)
(she died at the beginning of the ’20th century’)
(right after ‘william mckinley’)
*’queen of the ‘united kingdom’ of ‘great britain’ + ‘ireland'”*
(’20 june 1837′ – ’22 january 1901′)
(assumed throne at ‘age 18’)
(reigned for over ’63 years’)
(she was the ‘daughter’ of her predecessor’s younger brother)
(‘king william IV’ and his younger brother ‘prince edward’)
(she became ‘queen’ when her uncle ‘king william IV’ died at ‘age 71’)
(on ‘1 may 1876′, she adopted the additional title of ’empress of india’)
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(‘victoria’ was the daughter of ‘prince edward’ (‘duke’ of ‘kent’ and ‘strathearn’, the 4th son of ‘king george III’)
(both the ‘duke’ and the ‘king’ died in ‘1820’, and ‘victoria’ was raised under close supervision by her mother (‘princess victoria of ‘saxe-coburg-saalfeld’)
(she inherited the throne at ‘age 18’, after her father’s 3 elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving ‘legitimate children’)
(the ‘united kingdom’ was already an ‘established constitutional monarchy’, in which the ‘sovereign’ held relatively little direct political power)
(privately, ‘victoria’ attempted to influence ‘government policy’ and ‘ministerial appointments’)
(publicly, she became a ‘national icon’ who was identified with ‘strict standards’ of ‘personal morality’)
(while all the while, that strange little fella ‘lewis carroll’ was off tiddling his ‘litte girls’ he was supposed to be tutoring)
(as ‘john ruskin’ drooled over the visage of ‘rose la touche’)
(‘victoria’ married her first cousin ‘prince albert of ‘saxe-coburg’ and ‘gotha’ in ‘1840’)
“her ‘first cousin’ you say…?”
“very well then…”
(their 9 children married into ‘royal’ and ‘noble’ families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet “the grandmother of europe”)
(after albert’s death in ‘1861’, ‘victoria’ plunged into ‘deep mourning’ and avoided ‘public appearances’)
(as a result of her ‘seclusion’, ‘republicanism’ temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her ‘reign’, her popularity recovered)
(her ‘golden’ + ‘diamond’ jubilees were times of ‘public celebration’)
(her reign of ’63 years / 7 months’ was longer than that of any of her predecessors and is known as the ‘victorian era’)
(it was a period of ‘industrial’, ‘cultural’, ‘political’, ‘scientific’, and ‘military’ change within the ‘united kingdom’, and was marked by a great expansion of the ‘british empire’)
(she was the last british monarch of the ‘house of hanover’)
(her ‘son’ and ‘successor’ (‘edward VII’) initiated the ‘house of ‘saxe-coburg’ and ‘gotha”, the line of his ‘father’)
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