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Histoire. Victoria, reine du plus grand empire du monde. Rien ne destinait à régner la jeune fille de 18 ans qui monte sur le trône en 1837. Victoria, reine d’Angleterre, imprimera pourtant sa marque sur son époque et son empire durant 63 ans. De Dominique Kalifa. Portrait de la reine Victoria réalisé par Alexander Melville.
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors —constituted the Victorian era.
- 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901
- Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
6 avr. 2021 · Comment la reine Victoria a transformé la monarchie britannique. Lorsqu'elle accéda au trône, nombreux étaient ceux souhaitant remplacer la monarchie par une république. Mais la reine Victoria sut transformer la monarchie britannique et mener des réformes aussi ambitieuses que nécessaires. De Erin Blakemore.
- Early Life and Ascension to The Throne
- Family and Descendants
- Albert’s Death and Victoria’s Later Years
- Legacy
- Sources
Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, at London’s Kensington Palace to Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George III, and his wife, Princess Maria Louisa Victoria, who was of German descent. Named for her godfather, Russian Tsar Alexander I, she was fifth in line for the crown at birth. Before Victoria turned 1, Edward died of pn...
Victoria married her first cousin, the German Prince Albert, on February 10, 1840, whom she loved dearly. "I never, never spent such an evening!!” she wrote in her diaryfollowing their wedding night. “My dearest dearest dear Albert ... his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt...
Albert died in 1861 at the age of 42 from typhoid fever. Devastated, Victoria spent the next 10-plus years in seclusion, and wore black as a symbol of mourning for the rest of her life. While in isolation, her popularity sank, but once she returned to public life, her penchant for foreign policy based on peace, support of charities that focused on ...
During Victoria’s nearly 64-year reign, the British Empire was at its largest and most powerful. The empire included India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, and covered one-fifth of the globe and accounted for roughly one in four people on Earth. Locations around the world, from Victoria, Canada to Victoria Falls, Zambia to Queensla...
“Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901),” Royal.uk. “How Queen Victoria remade the British monarchy,” National Geographic. “Queen Victoria: From Pampered Princess to Elderly Empress: Wife, Mother, and Queen,” Historic Royal Palaces.
31 mars 2021 · HISTORY & CULTURE. EXPLAINER. How Queen Victoria remade the British monarchy. She took the throne amid calls to replace the royals with a republic. But Queen Victoria held power through...
Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set.
Il y a 2 jours · Victoria (born May 24, 1819, Kensington Palace, London, England—died January 22, 1901, Osborne, near Cowes, Isle of Wight) was the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). She was the last of the house of Hanover and gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age.
