Queen Victoria I

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Queen Victoria I

• By Abby Milligan

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Introduction

• This PowerPoint Presentation is all about Queen
  Victoria Enjoy !!!!!!!!!

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Queen Victoria I Family

• Queen Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke
  of Kent, a son of King George III. Because the
  king was insane, Edward's oldest brother George
  served as the country's regent. The Prince Regent
  and his estranged wife Caroline had just one
  child, Princess Charlotte of Wales. After
  Charlotte's death in 1817, people began to worry
  about the royal succession. Although the king had
  twelve living children, none of them had
  offspring who were eligible to inherit the throne.

Parliament and the public wanted the king's four
unmarried sons to find wives, and three of them -
including the 50-year-old Duke of Kent - quickly
did so. His chosen bride was a German princess,
Victoire of Saxe-Coburg, age 31. She was the
widow of Prince Emich Charles of Leiningen, and
had two children from that marriage, Charles and
Feodora.
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Photo Album
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Articles

• Queen Victoria died this week in 1901 after the
  longest reign in British history. She had been on
  the throne for 63 years and most of her subjects
  had never known any other king or queen. During
  her reign many important technological
  discoveries were made, and the British Empire
  continued to grow in size and influence.

Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 when
she was only 18 years old, after the death of her
uncle, William IV. She relied on the help of the
Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to guide her
decisions during the first couple of years of her
reign. They became close friends but he was very
protective of her. He believed she should not
have to deal with some of the nasty realities of
British life, which meant she didn't really know
about the problems of her subjects. He even told
her not to read the book 'Oliver Twist' by
Charles Dickens, because it was about "paupers,
criminals and other unpleasant subjects".
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Video
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Hyperlinks

• Here are some great hyperlinks on Queen Victoria
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_Unite
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• http//www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page118.asp
• http//www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vic.htm

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• I hoped you enjoyed watching and learning about
  queen Victoria and now maybe you can make one of
  your own.
• !!Thank you !!