3.
Queen Victoria had large
blue eyes, a cupid-bow
mouth, smooth lightbrown hair that darkened
with age. She was under
5 feet and as a girl was
slender, then plump. By
the time she was 26 she
was stout and remained
so until the end. She had
a silvery voice and a
radiant, though rare
smile.
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4. She inherited the throne at the age of 18.
Privately, Victoria attempted to influence
government policy. Publicly, she became a
national icon, and was identified with strict
standards of personal morality.
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5. Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert in 1840.
Their nine children married into royal and noble families
across the continent, and that’s why Queen Victoria had
a nickname "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's
death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and
avoided public appearances.
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6. Her reign of 63 years and
seven months, which is
longer than that of any
other British monarch
and the longest of any
female monarch in
history, is known as the
Victorian era. It was a
period of industrial,
cultural, political,
scientific, and military
change within the United
Kingdom. She was the
last British monarch of
the House of Hanover.
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