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
Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria UK Top 40 hits. Canadian singer Leonard Cohen refers to her in a mostly non-factual way in his 1964 poem "Queen Victoria and Me", and again in the 1972 song "Queen Victoria" (based on the poem). The song was later covered by Welsh musician John Cale. In 2006, the Comics Sherpa online comic service started carrying a comic strip titled "The New Adventures of Queen Victoria" using cut-out photographs and portraits of the Queen and others. In the Japanese anime and manga series "Kuroshitsuji" ("Black Butler"); she appears as Ciel Phantomhive's primary boss. Queen Victoria's reign features in the 2003