Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of which country in 1877?
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.
SS Empress Queen still to be seen above the water on Armistice Day. During the following summer, after a long and heavy gale, they finally disappeared. The position of the wreck of "Empress Queen" is given as . Bibliography SS Empress Queen SS (RMS) "Empress Queen" was a steel paddle steamer, which was the last of its type ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. She was chartered by the Admiralty in 1915 and used for trooping duties until she ran aground off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England, and was abandoned. "Empress Queen" was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering