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Queen Victoria
Prepared by Karla Ricková
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Early life

• 1819 May 24th Princess Alexandrina Victoria
  of Kent was born at Kensington Palace, the only
  child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess
  Victoria Mary Louisa of SaxeCoburgSaalfeld
• Death of Princess Victoria's father and her
  grandfather

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• Victoria was able to speak several languages
• 1830 March 11th The Princess was told for the
  first time that she might succeed to the throne
• 1836 May 18th - Princess Victoria met her
  future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and
  Gotha

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• 1837 June 20th William IV died
• Victoria became Queen
• 1838 June 28th The coronation of Queen
  Victoria took place at Westminster Abbey

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Marriage

• 1839 October 15th Queen Victoria and Prince
  Albert became engaged
• 1840 February 10th they were married
• very powerful partnership and happy marriage

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The birth of her children

• 1840 Victoria, Princess Royal
• 1841 - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later
  Edward VII.)
• 1843 Princess Alice
• 1844 Prince Alfred

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• 1846 Princess Helena
• 1848 Princess Louise
• 1850 Prince Arthur
• 1853 Prince Leopold
• 1857 Princess Beatrice

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The reign

• 1841 Queen Victoria appeared on the Penny Red
  postage stamp
• 1854 Outbreak of the Crimean War
• 1877 Queen Victoria became Empress of India

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• 1887 June 2st Queen Victoria celebrated her
  Golden Jubilee with a service of thanksgiving at
  Westminster Abbey
• 1897 - Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond
  Jubilee
• 1899 - Boer War began and ended on 31st May 1902
  

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Penny Red Postage Stamp
Queen Victoria in her Diamond Jubilee
photograph. London, 1897
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The attempts on her life

• 1840 1882 seven attempts were made on
  Victorias life
• 1840 June 10th Edward Oxford attempted to
  assassinate twice the Queen
• 1842 May 29th John Francis fired a pistol on
  the Queen at St. Jamess park

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• 1842 June 3rd John William Bean attempted to
  shoot the Queen
• 1849 William Hamilton attempted to alarm the
  Queen by firing powder-filled pistol
• 1850 the Queen was injured when she was
  assaulted by Robert Pate
• 1872 Arthur OConnor tried to shoot her

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• 1882 the last of attempts on Victorias
• life
• Roderic McLean fired a bullet
• towards the Queen

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The death of her husband

• 1861 December 14th Prince Albert died on
  typhoid fever- Victoria wore for the rest of her
  reign black

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Later years and the death of the Queen

• 1901 January 22nd Queen Victoria, Empress of
  India died peacefully at Osbourne House
• 1901 February 2nd Her funeral was held at St.
  Georges Chapel in Windsor
• She was laid to rest alongside her husband in the
  Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore

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List of places named after Queen Victoria

• Queen Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom
• Queen Victoria Village shopping centre,
  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Victoria Falls, Zambia / Zimbabwe

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• Lake Victoria, Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda
• Great Victoria Desert, Australia
• Victoria (Australia), a state of Australia
• 12 Victoria, an asteroid discovered in 1850
• Victoria Station, of which there are many

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Lake Victoria
Victoria Falls
Great Victoria Desert
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Key vocabulary

• pneumonia zápal plic
• governess vychovatelka
• gain získat
• entirely devoted zcela oddaní
• attempt útok
• assassinate zavraždit
• bullet kulka
• fire strílet

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• seize zatknout, zajmout
  
• assault prepadení,
  znásilnení
• insane duševne chorý
• bruise pohmoždit
• ostensibly zdánlive
• undaunted neohrožený
• inextinguishable neuhasitelný

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