Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Anna:

-Good afternoon, we are Cristina and Anna and we are going to talk about Queen Victoria and her life.

- To start, with we’ll introduce Victoria. Then we’ll mention the characteristics about her reign and policy. After that, we’ll talk about her marriage and finally we’ll explain some curiosities.

We’ll try to answer your questions after the presentation.

Cristina:

-Queen victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 20th of June 1837 until her death.

Her name was Alexandrina Victoria. She was born in the United Kingdom on May the 24^th 1819 and died on January the 22^nd 1901.

Her reign of 63 years and 7 months was longer than any of other British monarch, and the longest of any female monarch in history.

Anna:

-Victoria’s predecessor was her uncle. He was the king for seven years.

Victoria became the queen when she was nineteen, after her uncle’s death. Sixty four years later, when she died at eighty two years old, her elder son Edward became the king.

Cristina:

- Queen Victoria respected the limits of constitutional monarchy, and took place in the political life of Great Britain.

She was respectful with the parliamentary regime.

Anna:

-When Victoria was twenty years old, she married her cousin Albert. They had five daughters and four sons. Although it was a convenience marriage, at the end they were very happy. However, Albert died forty years before Victoria.

Cristina:

-People said that Prince Albert married her cousin for convenience, but later they were a very happy marriage.

-At the start of her reign, Victoria was popular, but her reputation suffered when one of her ladies-in-waiting got an out-of-wedlock pregnancy.The Queen spread false rumours about Lady Flora, because she was a virgin and when Lady Flora died in July, the post-mortem revealed a large tumour.

-The death of Albert caused a strong depression in the queen, who left political life and wore black clothes for 40 years.

Cristina F. Anna S.

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