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
MS Queen Victoria late 2010. During a call at Sydney, "Queen Victoria" was illuminated in pink in support of Breast Cancer Research. On 9 December 2010 Cunard announced its first female captain, Faroese born Inger Klein Olsen, who would take command of "Queen Victoria" beginning on 15 December. January 2011: Two years after the first Cunard Royal Rendezvous, on the same date, met up with both "Queen Victoria" and for another Royal Rendezvous in New York City on 13 January 2011. Both the "Queen Victoria" and "Queen Elizabeth" made a tandem crossing of the Atlantic for the event. All three ships met in