Discover our top ten Queen Victoria facts here at National Geographic Kids. Learn about where the British Queen was born, when she reigned, her hidden talents and more!
‘Queen Victoria’ was crowned as the queen of United Kingdom & Ireland in London’s Westminster Abbey at a very young age of 18. She was one of the longest reigning monarchs in the British history till the time Queen Elizabeth II surpassed her on Sep 10, 2015. The United Kingdom domin...
Her ancestors include Queen Victoria, the second longest-ruling monarch in British history, and King George III. In 1936, Elizabeth’s uncle King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and chose to marry the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. The following year, her father became king. Young Lilibet...
Victoria's husband,Prince Albert, was a German prince with a great interest in science and technology. Thanks in part to Albert's fascination with everything new, the Queen became very interested in technological advances. In the early 1840s, when train travel was in its infancy, Victoria exp...
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See Victoria's bathing machine, which she used to swim on the Isle of Wight Look through the complete online collection of Queen Victoria's journals from the Royal Archives, including her childhood diaries The BBC guide to how Victoria redefined Britain’s monarchy Download Queen Victoria's famil...
In 1947, soon after the royal family returned from an official visit to South Africa and Rhodesia, they announced Elizabeth’s engagement toPrince Philipof Greece, her third cousin (both were great-great-grandchildren ofQueen Victoriaand Prince Albert) and a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. She ha...
Queen Victoria had two sides, as any Gemini would. She was a lively artist with unabashed opinions she fearlessly voiced to parliament, but she also shied away from the public eye and was widely criticized for living a secluded life. Dig Deeper Facts We Just Learned About Que...
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Wallis Simpson’s childhood was turbulent, to say the least. Her father’s family begrudgingly supported and housed her and her mother—until one day, when they suddenly turned on them. The whole time, Wallis’s Uncle Sol had been the one controlling the purse strings. Well, rumors had spr...