Statue of Queen Victoria, Bangalore the five of the original 50 statues of Queen Victoria which were installed in British India, to still stand at its original location. The statue has blossoms of jacaranda falling around. On the other end of Queen's Park is the Statue of King Edward VII, Bangalore. Queen Victoria, ruled India from faraway England as the Empress of India. In 1858, after the dissolution of the East India Company, following the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, India came under the control of the British Crown. In 1877, the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, had proclaimed Queen Victoria as the Empress of India.
Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal founders of the House of Bourbon-Braganza which subsequently joined the Spanish nobility as dukes of Marchena, Durcal, Hernani and Ansola. Mariana Victoria was buried at the Royal Monastery of El Escorial with her husband and her two young children. Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal Mariana Victoria of Portugal (or of Braganza; Portuguese: Mariana Vitória; full name: "Mariana Vitória Josefa Francisca Xavier de Paula Antonieta Joana Domingas Gabriela de Bragança"; or ; 15 December 1768 – 2 November 1788) was a Portuguese "Infanta" (princess), the eldest daughter of Queen Maria I of Portugal and her king-consort, Infante Pedro of Portugal. Mariana