1. Jesús Cama
CONTEXT
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (London 1819 - Palace Osborne on the Isle of Wight
1901). Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland between 1837 and 1901, and
Empress of India between 1876 and 1901. His reign, which was the longest in the history of the
British Isles, marked an epoch in the daily life of the population and all the long nineteenth
century British Victorianism.
Beyond political and social assessments, the reign of Queen Victoria meant the great
expansion towards British colonial Africa and Asia, the country's industrial revolution that had
already begun despite the eighteenth century was in the nineteenth century when the process
was consolidated and expanded enormously. Dynastically, Victoria was the last monarch of the
House of Hanover which ruled the country, and gave way to the new dynasty, also German, of
Saxony-Coburg Gotha.