Transcript Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
Prepared by: Karla Ricková
Early life
• 1819 – May 24th – Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent was born at Kensington Palace, the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe–Coburg–Saalfeld • Death of Princess Victoria's father and her grandfather
• Victoria was able to speak several languages • 1830 – March 11th – The Princess was told for the first time that she might succeed to the throne • 1836 – May 18th - Princess Victoria met her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha
• 1837 – June 20th – William IV died • Victoria became Queen • 1838 – June 28th – The coronation of Queen Victoria took place at Westminster Abbey
Marriage
• 1839 – October 15th – Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became engaged • 1840 – February 10th – they were married • very powerful partnership and happy marriage
The birth of her children
• 1840 – Victoria, Princess Royal • 1841 - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII.) • 1843 – Princess Alice • 1844 – Prince Alfred
• 1846 – Princess Helena • 1848 – Princess Louise • 1850 – Prince Arthur • 1853 – Prince Leopold • 1857 – Princess Beatrice
The reign
• 1841 – Queen Victoria appeared on the Penny Red postage stamp • 1854 – Outbreak of the Crimean War • 1877 – Queen Victoria became Empress of India
• 1887 – June 2st – Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee with a service of thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey • 1897 - Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee • 1899 - Boer War began and ended on 31st May 1902
Penny Red Postage Stamp Queen Victoria in her Diamond Jubilee photograph. London, 1897
The attempts on her life
• 1840 – 1882 – seven attempts were made on Victoria´s life • 1840 – June 10th – Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate twice the Queen • 1842 – May 29th – John Francis fired a pistol on the Queen at St. James´s park
• 1842 – June 3rd – John William Bean attempted to shoot the Queen • 1849 – William Hamilton attempted to alarm the Queen by firing powder-filled pistol • 1850 – the Queen was injured when she was assaulted by Robert Pate • 1872 – Arthur O´Connor tried to shoot her
• 1882 – the last of attempts on Victoria´s life – Roderic McLean fired a bullet towards the Queen
The death of her husband
• 1861 – December 14th – Prince Albert died on typhoid fever- Victoria wore for the rest of her reign black
Later years and the death of the Queen
• 1901 – January 22nd – Queen Victoria, Empress of India died peacefully at Osbourne House • 1901 – February 2nd – Her funeral was held at St. George´s Chapel in Windsor • She was laid to rest alongside her husband in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore
List of places named after Queen Victoria
• Queen Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom • Queen Victoria Village shopping centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Victoria Falls, Zambia / Zimbabwe
• Lake Victoria, Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda • Great Victoria Desert, Australia • Victoria (Australia), a state of Australia • 12 Victoria, an asteroid discovered in 1850 • Victoria Station, of which there are many
Lake Victoria Great Victoria Desert Victoria Falls
Key vocabulary
• pneumonia zápal plic • governess vychovatelka • gain získat • entirely devoted zcela oddaní • attempt útok • assassinate zavraždit • bullet kulka • fire střílet
• seize zatknout, zajmout • assault přepadení, znásilnění • insane duševně chorý • bruise pohmoždit • ostensibly zdánlivě • undaunted neohrožený • inextinguishable neuhasitelný