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Queen Victoria Research Paper

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Queen Victoria ruled Britian and Ireland in 1837 and served as empress of India 1877 until 1901 the year of her death. She is the second longest reigning British monarch other than Queen Elizabeth II. Victoria's reign had great cultural expansion, advances in industry, science and communications. In 1840 she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She was only 16 when they met and she had to propose since she was queen, so on October 15, 1839 she proposed to prince Albert. Queen Victoria had nine chilldren between 1840-1857 with Prince Albert. Most of her children married into other royal families of Europe. Until the late 1860s Queen Victoria rarely appeared in public. She was persuaded to open parliment in person in 1866
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