Queen Victoria Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke and the King died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers
Coronation of Queen Victoria a monarch from a new generation would inevitably mean the progress of reform. William IV and his wife, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, had strong Tory sympathies, while Victoria's mother and namesake was known to favour the Whigs. It was assumed, to some extent correctly, that Queen Victoria had been brought up to hold similar views, which was reflected in popular ballads sold on the streets, one of which had Victoria saying: <poem style="margin-left: 2em;">I'll make some alterations, I'll gain the people's right, I will have a radical Parliament Or they don't lodge here tonight.</poem> Although this was a wild distortion of