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Victoria, Queen
- A British queen of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During her reign, Britain reached new heights in industrial and colonial power and diplomatic influence. Victoria became queen at the age of eighteen and soon married Prince Albert, who proved an enormous support to her; after his early death, she remained in official mourning until her own death forty years later. Victoria was known for her impartiality toward the two leading political parties of Britain, the Liberals and the Conservatives, which both produced extraordinary leaders during her reign ( see Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone ). She was also known for establishing strict standards of personal morality. ( See Victorian period .)
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Then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria, and not many people remember her.
The others—Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and Margaret Thatcher—weren't (or in the case of Elizabeth, aren't) any such thing.
In one sense, yes: for Queen Victoria, a big bang would just have been something you berated the servants about.
This changed with the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the only other British monarch to have spent 60 years on the throne.
Last year, a pair of knickers owned by Queen Victoria fetched £9,375 (€11,000) at a British auction house.
Victoria Nyanza, so called after Queen Victoria, had been discovered some years before.
It was difficult to look like Queen Victoria under the circumstances, with her small hands deftly draping and smoothing.
She wrote of the birth of another child to young Queen Victoria,—as if that mattered a tinker's curse!
She had hoped to convince her of the need of votes for women, but Queen Victoria never gave her the opportunity.
Just like a stone–built house in appearance, but portable; sent out from Queen Victoria Street in pieces.
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