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Born on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace as the son of the Duke of Kent, UK Edward and Princess Victoria of Saxony-Coburg Saafeld.
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her grandfather and father died in 1820 when Victoria was eight months old and she became the heiress to the throne.
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the Duke of York died in 1827
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She became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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In 1835 Princess Victoria met Prince Albert and knew that over the years would become her husband and love of her life, Albert of Saxony-Coburg Gotha. Albert and Victoria were first-degree cousins, as his father and her mother were blood siblings, children of Duke Francis Frederick of Saxony-Coburg Saalfeld
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Died in 1837 at Buckingham Palace, King William IV of the United Kingdom and immediately became Queen of the United Kingdom Princess Victoria
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The Prime Minister became increasingly unpopular and a series of riots occured in Canada and Jamaica that caused that in 1839 the executive fell in Melbourne.
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On February 10, 1840 in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace in London, she married Prince Albert of Saxony-Coburg Gotha. At that time Albert acquired the rank and title of HRH Prince Consort of the United Kingdom. The couple had nine children and became what genealogists have named the elderly in Europe, along with King Christian IX of Denmark.
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The queen asked the Conservative Sir Robert Peel to form government. However, Pell was found with significant setbacks as a result of the dynamics that were generated during more than twenty years of Liberal government.
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The following day, Victoria drove the same route, though faster and with a greater escort, in a deliberate attempt to provoke Francis to take a second aim and catch him in the act.
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The year 1845 burst in Ireland the reknown Potato famine that caused the death of one million Irish and the emigration of another million to the United States mainly
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The year 1849 being especially organised for lord Claredon, the lord Lieutenant of Ireland; that is to say, the head of the British administration to the island, with the aim to attract the attention of the British politicians to the serious problems that Ireland suffered.
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The year 1851 was held in London the Big Exhibition of 1851
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On 14 of December 1861 died in the castle of Windsor the prince consort Albert of Saxònia-Coburg Gotha causing a terrible depression to the British sovereign.
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In 1887 the UK held the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria; that is, the fiftieth anniversary of the ascension to the throne. The occasion was a brilliant encounter the largest royalty linked to the queen met a major banquet in attending a large contingent of European kings and princes
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The last visit of the queen in Ireland took place in 1900, months before dying when she went to the island in order to appeal to the Irish men to enroll to the British army in order to fight in the Second World War
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On 22 January 1901 the Queen died in her beloved home of the Isle of Wight (the home was designed by her husband), aged 81 after a 63 years, seven months and two days reign. The funeral took place on 2 February of the same year and the queen was buried next to her husband at Fragmore Mausoleum.
