Question: Where did Victoria live at the beginning of her reign?
Answer: with her mother

Question: Why did Victoria live with her mother at the beginning of her reign?
Answer: was required by social convention

Question: What could have allowed Victoria freedom from living with her mother?
Answer: marriage

Question: How did Victoria feel about having to be married in order to escape living with her mother?
Answer: a "schocking  [sic] alternative"

Question: How did Victoria feel about the prospect of having to live with her mother, no matter how far away in the palace they put her?
Answer: close proximity promised "torment for many years"

Question: What was the name of the man that tried to shoot Queen Victoria?
Answer: John Francis

Question: Why did Francis fail to kill Queen Victoria?
Answer: the gun did not fire

Question: On what date did John Francis try to shoot Queen Victoria?
Answer: 29 May 1842

Question: Where was Queen Victoria when Francis tried to shoot her?
Answer: riding in a carriage along The Mall, London

Question: What happened to Francis after his attempt to shoot Victoria?
Answer: he escaped

Question: Who made two unsuccessful attempts on Queen Victoria's life in 1842?
Answer: John Francis

Question: What was John Francis's eventual sentence for the attempt on the Queens life? 
Answer: transportation for life

Question: Who shot at Queen Victoria on July 3, days after John Francis's sentence was commuted? 
Answer: John William Bean

Question: Who fired a shot at Queen Victoria's carriage in 1849?
Answer: William Hamilton

Question: What person recieved a seven year transportation sentence for striking Victoria on the head with his cane? 
Answer: Robert Pate

Question: Who escaped Victoria's guards after attempting to fire a shot at her?
Answer: John Francis

Question: What happened to John Francis after his second attempt to fire on the Queen?
Answer: death sentence was commuted to transportation for life

Question: What did John William Bean try to fire at Queen Victoria?
Answer: paper and tobacco

Question: What were the consequences of John William Bean's attempt to fire at the Queen?
Answer: 18 months in jail

Question: When did William Hamilton fire a powder charge at Victoria's carriage?
Answer: 1849

Question: What political party was Russells ministry?
Answer: Whig

Question: What was president Bonapartes name changed to?
Answer: Emperor Napoleon III

Question: What was the name of the foreign secretary that Victoria found offensive?
Answer: Lord Palmerston

Question: To whom did Victoria complain about Palmerston?
Answer: Russell

Question: What year was Palmerston removed from office?
Answer: 1851

Question: What position did Lord Palmerston hold?
Answer: Foreign Secretary

Question: What scandal prompted Palmerstons removal in 1851?
Answer: he announced the British government's approval of President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup in France without consulting the Prime Minister

Question: President Bonaparte was declared what in France? 
Answer: Emperor Napoleon III

Question: Who briefly replaced Russell as Prime Minister? 
Answer: Lord Derby

Question: What did Victoria express her displeasure at to Russell about Palmerton? 
Answer: Palmerston sent official dispatches to foreign leaders without her knowledge

Question: Who was the Foreign Secretary of Russell's ministry?
Answer: Lord Palmerston

Question: To what party did Russell and Palmerston belong?
Answer: Whig

Question: What replaced Russell's administration?
Answer: a short-lived minority government led by Lord Derby

Question: What happened to President Bonaparte in 1852?
Answer: declared Emperor Napoleon III

Question: Whom did Palmerston fail to gain approval from befoe announcing the support of the British government of Napoleon's coup? 
Answer: Prime Minister

Question: Who did Victorias eldest daughter marry?
Answer: Prince Frederick William of Prussia

Question: Where did Victoria's oldest daughter get married?
Answer: London

Question: How old was Princess Victoria when she agreed to marry the Prince?
Answer: 14

Question: How old was Princess Victoria when she was married?
Answer: 17

Question: Where did princess Victoria move to after she was married?
Answer: Germany

Question: Who did Princess Victoria marry at the age of 17? 
Answer: Prince Frederick William of Prussia

Question: How old was Princess Victoria when she became engaged to Prince Frederick? 
Answer: 14

Question: Where did Princess Victoria and her husband leave for after their marriage? 
Answer: Germany

Question: What was the name of Queen Victoria's first grandchild? 
Answer: Wilhelm

Question: What position did Wilhelm later hold in Germany? 
Answer: last German Kaiser

Question: When was Victoria's oldest daughter married?
Answer: Eleven days after Orsini's assassination attempt

Question: How old was Victoria's oldest daughter when she was amrried?
Answer: 17

Question: What did Queen Victoria hope for the marriage between her daughter and Prince Frederick William?
Answer: liberalising influence in the enlarging Prussian state

Question: Who was the Queen's first grandchild?
Answer: Wilhelm

Question: What future awaited the first grandson of Queen Victoria?
Answer: the last German Kaiser

Question: Who was Queen Victorias father?
Answer: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Question: Who was the only grandchild of George iii until 1817?
Answer: Princess Charlotte of Wales

Question: Who was the reigning King of the United Kingdom until 1817?
Answer: George III

Question: What year did Princess Charlotte of Wales die?
Answer: 1817

Question: Who did the Duke of kent marry in 1818?
Answer: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Question: Who was the only legitimate grandchild of George III?
Answer: Princess Charlotte of Wales

Question: Who did Prince Edward marry in 1818 in the hopes of producing a child?
Answer: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Question: Who was Princess Victoria widowed from?
Answer: Prince of Leiningen

Question: What time was Queen Victoria born on May 24, 1819?
Answer: 4.15 a.m

Question: Who was Princess Charlotte married to until her death? 
Answer: Leopold

Question: Who are Queen Victoria's mother and father?
Answer: The Duke and Duchess of Kent

Question: When was Queen Victoria born?
Answer: 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819

Question: What was Queen Victoria's father's official title?
Answer: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III

Question: What was Queen Victoria's mother's official title?
Answer: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Question: Who were Princess Victoria's children from her previous marriage?
Answer: Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)

Question: The Dutchesses brother Leopold was the King of what country?
Answer: the Belgians

Question: What year did Leopold become King of the Belgians?
Answer: 1831

Question: Who was the nephew of leopold?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Question: Who was Alberts father?
Answer: Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Question: How did Victoria describe the physical appearance of Alexander?
Answer: very plain

Question: Who disapproved of the proposed marriage between Victoria and Albert?
Answer: William IV

Question: Who was the man William IV wanted Victoria to wed instead? 
Answer: Prince Alexander of the Netherlands

Question: Prince Alexander was the second son of whom? 
Answer: Prince of Orange

Question: What did Victoria think of her suiter, the Prince Alexander of Orange? 
Answer: very plain

Question: How did Victoria feel about Albert?
Answer: enjoyed Albert's company from the beginning

Question: Who wanted to see Victoria and Albert marry?
Answer: the Duchess's brother, Leopold

Question: Who opposed Victoria marrying Albert, or any Coburg?
Answer: William IV