Victoria aka Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, England, on May 24, 1819 and died on January 22, 1901, at the age of 81 years. Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland since June 20, 1837 and became Queen of India from 1 January 1877, until she died in 1901.
The government, which lasts 63 years, 216 days, longer than any king or queen of Britain until September 9, 2015, subsequently replaced by his eldest son, Queen Elizabeth II, as Britain's longest ruler.
Victoria itself managed to maintain a monarchy system run in England and able to make it as a ceremonial political institution. During the reign, the various forms of repression against the people in the British colony increased significantly.
The Victorian government is also characterized by a massive expansion of the British Empire. The Victorian Age became the peak age of the Industrial Revolution, which became an important period of social, economic and technological change in Great Britain. It was at this time that the British Empire reached its peak and became a supreme power.
Victoria is almost entirely bloody German (except from the ancestors Sophia of Hanover who became the grandson of the female line of James I), became the last queen of the Hanover Dynasty. Meanwhile, his successor, King Edward VII came from the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Dynasties.
Beginning of Life
Victoria's father, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. Her mother is the Victorian Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. George III's eldest son, Prince of Wales only has a son named Princess Charlotte Augusta from Wales.
When Princess Charlotte Augusta passed away in 1817, the unmarried son of King George III subsequently scrambled to get married and have children to secure their bloodline. Right at the age of 50, Duke of Kent and Strathearn married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, sister of a widower of Princess Charlotte Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and widow of Karl, Prince of Leiningen.
Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born at the Kensington Palace, London, on May 24, 1819. Victoria was baptized in the Cupola Room at the Kensington Palace on June 24, 1819 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Charles Manners-Sutton) and his godparent Prince Regent, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, Queen Charlotte of Wurttemberg and Duke Dowager from Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Although baptized by the name of Alexandrina Victoria, since birth, Victoria is officially named by Her Majesty Princess Victoria of Kent.
Right in 1839, Victoria's cousin Albert, who was a prince from Germany, came to England and 5 days later, the prince was proposed by Queen Victoria. Albert then accepted the proposal and they both got married in February 1840.
The couple has as many as 9 children, including King Edward VII. After Victoria's death, the power of the British Empire under King Edward VII's leadership grew weaker.
Most of the sons and daughters and grandchildren of Victoria and Albert establish marital relationships with members of other royal families in Europe, so that many of their descendants succeeded in occupying the throne of the European empire. This led to Victoria dubbed the name "Grandmother of European Kings".
The grandchildren who occupy the throne of the European empire, among others:
- Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
- Queen Sophie of Greece
- King George V of England
- Queen Maud of Norway
- Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna from Russia
- Queen Marie from Romania
Almost all of the European royal families today are descendants of Victoria or are bishops of King Christian IX of Denmark.
Degree
- Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent (1819-1837)
- Her Majesty Queen of Great Britain (1837-1877)
- Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen of Great Britain and Maharani of India (1877-1901) [1]
