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queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 when the monarchy had primarily symbolic power; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)- The Victorian era is in reference to the 63 years that Queen Victoria ruled.
Queen Victoria = queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 when the monarchy had primarily symbolic power
- This spectacle was witnessed by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- Queen Victoria was the longest queen.Richard Lederer -- A Brief History of the World
- —Manfred, St. Christopher, or Queen Victoria?F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- She was plump and dumpy now, rather like Queen Victoria, and she received him faithfully.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- 'This music crept by me upon the waters' 257 And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.T.S. Eliot -- The Waste Land
- But then again, I am a trained scientist, the personal phrenologist to Queen Victoria herself.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- See yourself—a little Queen Victoria trotting round.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- He was Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son, and he had been sent to Christ Church so that Dean Liddell might oversee his education.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- It was not difficult to persuade them to give him return passage in exchange for the cabin he had surrendered to the representative of Queen Victoria.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- You act like you were a combination of Queen Victoria and Cleopatra.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Queen Victoria had a party there or something.Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
- I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter: Close your eyes and think of England.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- Statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, or something?Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
- Will she have orange blossoms embroidered on her dress for luck as Queen Victoria did?Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Word of his gift spread and in 1858 he was summoned to Windsor Castle in England to calm a horse of Queen Victoria's.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- Half the English-speaking world has heard of Admiral Worthington—a naval hero, decorated by Queen Victoria herself.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- "Queen Victoria was different," murmured Mahmoud Ali.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- "Queen Victoria," the Indian boy said quickly.Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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