Visiting the exhibition, Victoria’s great-great granddaughter, the Queen, was “totally engrossed” as she watched virtual-reality dancers recreate a quadrille, a dance that was fashionable at 19th-century balls. “Thank God we don’t have to do that any more,” said the Queen. Quadrilles,...
Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for nearly 64 years, after ascending the throne just weeks after turning 18. She was the second-longest-reigning English royal in history, topped only by her great-great-granddaughterQueen Elizabeth II. While short in stature–she was 4 feet 11 inches ta...
The pieces were included in a sale of items belonging to the queen’s great-great granddaughter that lasted 11 hours and garnered three times more than expected.
根据第一段She was the granddaughter of George III(她是乔治三世的孙女)可知她是乔治三世的孙女,故选C。 (2)细节理解题。根据最后一段In 1877 Queen Victoria was made Empress of India by the imperialist Disraeli Famously(1877年,维多利亚女王被帝国主义的迪斯雷利封为印度皇后)可知,1877年维多利亚成为印度...
Edward VII's mother was Queen Victoria (1819 to 1901), Elizabeth's great-great-grandmother. She marriedPrince Albertof Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is one of Queen Victoria's great-great-grandsons: ...
1.FormerlyPrincePhilipofGreeceandDenmark2.Great-great-grandsonofQueenVictoria(ElizabethisalsotheGreat-greatgranddaughterofQueenVictoria)3.ElizabethfirstmetPrincePhilipwhenshewas13.AfterameetingattheRoyalNavalCollegeinJuly1939,Elizabeth,thoughonly13yearsold,fellinlovewithPhilip,andtheybegantoexchangeletters.Elizabeth...
June 20, 1837: Queen Victoria takes the crown at the age of 18. The granddaughter of KingGeorge III, her father died when she was just 8 months old, and her three uncles also died, putting her first in line as heir to the throne. An estimated 400,000 people thronged the streets of...
Queen Victoria was tiny, standing at 4 feet, 11 inches tall. Queen Victoria's reign lasted 63 years, surpassed by great-great granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II in 2015. Death Year: 1901 Death date: January 22, 1901 Death City: Near Cowes, Isle of Wight, England Death Country: United King...
As the daughter and granddaughter of men who were not first in line to the throne, Elizabeth was once destined for a life of relative regal obscurity. Instead, she became one of the world’s most famous women at the age of 25, when her father’s death in 1952 ...
In 1953, Mary bequeathed Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik Tiara to her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II, and so began a new era of royal appearances. Worn at numerous state banquets and events, including a ball at the White House in 1976, where she danced with the President, Gerald Ford, ...