Queen Victoria
1819 – 1901 British Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of India
Namesake of an age, proclaimed Empress of India in 1876, whose long reign covered the empire's territorial peak.
- Religion
- Church of England
- Affiliations
- House of Hanover
Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901, the longest reign of any British monarch until Elizabeth II. After the 1857 rebellion the Crown took direct control of India from the East India Company, and in 1876 Parliament proclaimed Victoria Empress of India at Disraeli's urging. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees became vast displays of imperial power, and by her death the empire covered roughly a quarter of the globe. She was a distant, symbolic head of an empire whose expansion and wars she followed closely but did not direct.
Connections
- associate of Benjamin Disraeli — Her favoured prime minister, who made her Empress of India.
- associate of Benjamin Disraeli — The queen who favoured him and whom he made empress.
- family of Edward VII — His mother and predecessor on the throne.
- family of Edward VII — Mother of Edward VII.
- family of George V — Her grandson, who renamed the royal house Windsor.
- family of George V — His grandmother.
- associate of Lord Palmerston — The queen he served, who often clashed with his freelancing diplomacy.
- family of Wilhelm II, German Emperor — Grandmother of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- family of Wilhelm II, German Emperor — Grandson of Queen Victoria.
- rival of William Ewart Gladstone — The prime minister she personally disliked and resisted.
- rival of William Ewart Gladstone — The queen who distrusted and resisted him.
- family of William IV of the United Kingdom — Uncle and predecessor of Victoria.
In the timeline
- 1858 The Crown Takes Control of India the reigning queen
- 1858 Crown rule established in India mentioned
- 1858 British Crown assumes sovereignty over India mentioned
- 1859 Company's Indian possessions pass to the British Crown mentioned
- 1868 The British expedition to Magdala and the death of Tewodros mentioned
- 1874 Disraeli's imperial acts as prime minister mentioned
- 1876 Victoria Proclaimed Empress of India the proclaimed empress
- 1877 The Delhi Durbar of 1877 the proclaimed empress
- 1897 The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria the reigning queen
- 1901 Duke of Connaught becomes Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge mentioned