QueenQueen Victoria Victoria

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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