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Victoria and Albert put a great deal of effort into preparing her for a royal marriage. Fate made her period of influence brief. She had strained relations with her children and the Prussian-German court found her too English. Victoria and Albert hoped super prices could bring peace to Europe, but…

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To the outside world Queen Victoria and Prince Albert seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different.

Queen Victoria by John Jabez Edwin Mayall in 1860. One of the first published photographs of the Queen. The public had never seen or been able to buy a photograph of the Queen before and once …

Queen Victoria is the second-longest-reigning monarch in British history – she reigned for almost 64 years, from 1837 until her death in 1901. But her path to the throne wasn’t easy: born into a succession crisis, Victoria was fifth in line at the time of her birth, and her father was the fourth child of the reigning king, George III. So how did Victoria become queen? And why did she succeed her uncle King William IV? Professor Kate Williams reveals all...

A well dressed Queen Victoria and family attend Princess Royal Victoria's wedding in this John Phillip portrait done two years after the 1858 event.

Alexandrina Victoria, known as Queen Victoria of England London (United Kingdom) May 24 1819 Isle of Wight (United Kingdom) January 22 1901 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and Empress of India (1876-1901). Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era, period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.

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