Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria

Prepared by: Karla RickováPrepared by: Karla Ricková

Early life

• 1819 – May 24th – Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent was born at Kensington Palace, the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe–Coburg–Saalfeld

• Death of Princess Victoria's father and her grandfather

• Victoria was able to speak several languages

• 1830 – March 11th – The Princess was told for the first time that she might succeed to the throne

• 1836 – May 18th - Princess Victoria met her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

• 1837 – June 20th – William IV died

• Victoria became Queen

• 1838 – June 28th – The coronation of Queen Victoria took place at Westminster Abbey

Marriage

• 1839 – October 15th – Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became engaged

• 1840 – February 10th – they were married

• very powerful partnership and happy marriage

The birth of her children

• 1840 – Victoria, Princess Royal

• 1841 - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII.)

• 1843 – Princess Alice

• 1844 – Prince Alfred

• 1846 – Princess Helena

• 1848 – Princess Louise

• 1850 – Prince Arthur

• 1853 – Prince Leopold

• 1857 – Princess Beatrice

The reign

• 1841 – Queen Victoria appeared on the Penny Red postage stamp

• 1854 – Outbreak of the Crimean War

• 1877 – Queen Victoria became Empress of India

• 1887 – June 2st – Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee with a service of thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey

• 1897 - Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee

• 1899 - Boer War began and ended on 31st May 1902

Penny Red Postage

Stamp

Queen Victoria in her Diamond Jubilee photograph. London, 1897

The attempts on her life

• 1840 – 1882 – seven attempts were made on Victoria´s life

• 1840 – June 10th – Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate twice the Queen

• 1842 – May 29th – John Francis fired a pistol on the Queen at St. James´s park

• 1842 – June 3rd – John William Bean attempted to shoot the Queen

• 1849 – William Hamilton attempted to alarm the Queen by firing powder-filled pistol

• 1850 – the Queen was injured when she was assaulted by Robert Pate

• 1872 – Arthur O´Connor tried to shoot her

• 1882 – the last of attempts on Victoria´s life – Roderic McLean fired a bullet

towards the Queen

The death of her husband

• 1861 – December 14th – Prince Albert died on typhoid fever- Victoria wore for the rest of her reign black

Later years and the death of the Queen

• 1901 – January 22nd – Queen Victoria, Empress of India died peacefully at Osbourne House

• 1901 – February 2nd – Her funeral was held at St. George´s Chapel in Windsor

• She was laid to rest alongside her husband in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore

List of places named after Queen Victoria

• Queen Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom

• Queen Victoria Village shopping centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Victoria Falls, Zambia / Zimbabwe

• Lake Victoria, Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda

• Great Victoria Desert, Australia

• Victoria (Australia), a state of Australia

• 12 Victoria, an asteroid discovered in 1850

• Victoria Station, of which there are many

Great Victoria Desert

Lake Victoria

Victoria Falls

Key vocabulary

• pneumonia zápal plic• governess vychovatelka• gain získat• entirely devoted zcela oddaní• attempt útok• assassinate zavraždit• bullet kulka• fire střílet

• seize zatknout, zajmout • assault přepadení,

znásilnění• insane duševně chorý• bruise pohmoždit• ostensibly zdánlivě• undaunted neohrožený• inextinguishable neuhasitelný

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