Author: Gagarin

English Queens

Queen Victoria
1819 —1901

Queen Victoria
(1819 – 1901)

Another strong queen was Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901), whose monument you can see in front of Buckingham Palace. She ruled for the longest period in the English history, for 64 years! During her reign Britain became a rich industrial country with a developed trade, an empire with a lot of colonies.
Victoria married a German, Prince Albert, but he died at the age of forty-two in 1861. That was a great tragedy for Queen Victoria. She left London and never lived in the city where she had been so happy with her husband and nine children.

Royal Albert Hall
But there are places in London that remind us of their love. One of them is the Royal Albert Hall—a very large concert hall where the best musicians of the world perform classical music. In front of the Albert Hall there is a monument to Prince Albert built by Queen Victoria.
Another place is the Victoria and Albert Museum (V& A) with its rich collection of painting and other works of the art. The family life of Queen Victoria touched people’s hearts.
A monument to Prince Albert in Koburg (Germany)