Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and she died in 1901. She was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1837-1901 and empress of India 1876-1901. Queen Victoria was born Alexandrina Victoria on May 24, 1819, in Kensington Palace, London. Victoria"s mother was Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Her father was Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathern, the fourth son of George III and youngest brother of George IV and William IV, they were kings of Great Britain. Because William IV had no legal children, his niece Victoria became inheritor apparent to...
was the longest in the archives of England. Her offspring, including 40 grandchildren, married into almost every royal family of Europe.

With her personal example of honesty, nationalism, and devotion to family life, Victoria became a living symbol of the solidity of the British Empire. The many years of her reign, often referred to as the Victorian age, witnessed the rise of the middle class and were marked by a deeply conservative morality and intense nationalism. Victoria"s correspondence was published in three series, Letters, 1837-61 3 vol., 1907, Letters, 1862-85 3 vol., 1926-1928, and Letters, 1886-1901 3 vol., 1930-32.