Queen_Victoria

context: Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration.
qas: answers: text: Prince Albert
question: Who did Victoria marry?

answers: text: the grandmother of Europe
question: What is her nickname that she was given because her children married into royal families across the continent?

answers: text: her popularity recovered
question: In the later half of her reign, what happened to her popularity?

answers: text: 1861
question: What year did Prince Albert die?

answers: text: nine
question: How many children did she have?

answers: text: nine
question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?

answers: text: 1861
question: What was the year of Alberts death?

answers: text: celebration
question: Queen Victorias Golden and Diamond jubilees were a time of public what?

answers: text: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
question: What was the name the first cousing that Victoria married?

answers: text: first cousin
question: What was the nickname given to Queen Victoria because all of her children married into noble families?

answers: text: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
question: What was the name of the first cousin that Queen Victoria was married to?

answers: text: 1840
question: Whatyear did Victoria marry Prince Albert?

answers: text: nine
question: How many children did Victoria and Albert have?

answers: text: 1861
question: What year did Prince Albert die?

answers: text: republicanism
question: Due to Victorias mourning over Alberts death, what political party gained strength?

answers: text: 1840
question: When did Queen Victoria get married?

answers: text: Prince Albert
question: What was the name of Victoria's husband?

answers: text: the grandmother of Europe
question: What was Queen Victoria's nickname?

answers: text: After Albert's death in 1861
question: When did republicanism gain strength during Queen Victoria's reign?

answers: text: nine
question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?

answers: text: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
question: Who did Victoria marry?

answers: text: 1840
question: When were Victoria and Prince Albert married?

answers: text: nine
question: How many children did Victoria and Prince Albert have?

answers: text: the grandmother of Europe
question: What was Victoria's unofficial title?

answers: text: 1861
question: When did Prince Albert die?

context: Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy". Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess and her ambitious and domineering comptroller, Sir John Conroy, who was rumoured to be the Duchess's lover. The system prevented the princess from meeting people whom her mother and Conroy deemed undesirable (including most of her father's family), and was designed to render her weak and dependent upon them. The Duchess avoided the court because she was scandalised by the presence of King William's bastard children, and perhaps prompted the emergence of Victorian morality by insisting that her daughter avoid any appearance of sexual impropriety. Victoria shared a bedroom with her mother every night, studied with private tutors to a regular timetable, and spent her play-hours with her dolls and her King Charles spaniel, Dash. Her lessons included French, German, Italian, and Latin, but she spoke only English at home.
qas: answers: text: mother
question: Who was extremely protective over Victoria?

answers: text: Kensington System
question: What system of rules kept her isolated from other children?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was the Dutchess' rumored lover?

answers: text: Dash
question: What was Victoria's dog's name?

answers: text: dolls
question: During her free time, what did she play with?

answers: text: her mother
question: Who did Victoria share a bedroom with when she was a child?

answers: text: French, German, Italian, and Latin
question: What languages did Victoria take lessons in?

answers: text: English
question: What was the only language Victoria spoke at home?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was Victoria's mothers lover?

answers: text: Kensington System
question: What is the formal name given to the system of rules Victoria was raised under?

answers: text: Kensington System
question: What system did Victorias mother raise her under?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was Victorias mothers comptroller?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was rumored to be Victorias mothers lover?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was the Duchess's suspected lover?

answers: text: Dash
question: What was the name of Victoria's childhood dog?

answers: text: an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess
question: What was the Kensington System?

answers: text: rather melancholy
question: How did Victoria describe her childhood?

answers: text: French, German, Italian, and Latin
question: What languages did Victoria study? 

answers: text: Dash
question: What was the name of Victoria's King Charles Spaniel?

answers: text: French, German, Italian, and Latin
question: What are some of the languages that Victoria studied?

answers: text: Kensington System
question: What system was in place to raise and educate Victoria; while also rendering her weak and dependent?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was the Duchess' comptroller and cohort?

answers: text: most of her father's family
question: Who was included in the list of people that the Duchess and Sir John Conroy didn't want the Princess Victoria associating with?

context: In 1853, Victoria gave birth to her eighth child, Leopold, with the aid of the new anaesthetic, chloroform. Victoria was so impressed by the relief it gave from the pain of childbirth that she used it again in 1857 at the birth of her ninth and final child, Beatrice, despite opposition from members of the clergy, who considered it against biblical teaching, and members of the medical profession, who thought it dangerous. Victoria may have suffered from post-natal depression after many of her pregnancies. Letters from Albert to Victoria intermittently complain of her loss of self-control. For example, about a month after Leopold's birth Albert complained in a letter to Victoria about her "continuance of hysterics" over a "miserable trifle".
qas: answers: text: Leopold
question: Who was Victoria's eighth child?

answers: text: chloroform
question: What anaesthetic helped her give birth to her eighth child?

answers: text: post-natal depression
question: What did Victoria suffer from after he pregnancies?

answers: text: thought it dangerous
question: Why did medical professionals advise against using an anaesthetic during childbirth?

answers: text: her "continuance of hysterics" over a "miserable trifle"
question: What did Albert complain about Victoria?

answers: text: Leopold
question: What was the name of Victoria's eighth child?

answers: text: post-natal depression
question: Hysteria and loss of control after the birts of many of her children were likely caused by what?

answers: text: chloroform
question: What was the name of the new anesthetic given to Victoria for the birth of Leopold?

answers: text: 1857
question: What year did Victoria give birth to her final child?

answers: text: Beatrice
question: What was the name of Victoria's final child?

answers: text: 1853
question: When did Victoria give birth to her eigth child?

answers: text: Leopold
question: What was the name of Victorias eighth child?

answers: text: chloroform.
question: What was the name of the new anesthetic used during leopolds birth?

answers: text: 1857
question: What year was victorias final child born?

answers: text: Beatrice
question: What was the name of Victorias final child?

answers: text: Leopold
question: Who was Victoria's eighth child? 

answers: text: 1857
question: When was Victoria's final child, Beatrice, born? 

answers: text: chloroform
question: What was the new anastethetic Victoria used in her last two childbirths? 

answers: text: considered it against biblical teaching
question: Why did members of the clergy oppose the use of chloroform? 

answers: text: loss of self-control
question: What did Albert complain about in letters to Victoria after the birth of her children? 

answers: text: Leopold
question: What was the name of Victoria's eigth child?

answers: text: chloroform
question: What was a new anaesthetic being used for childbirth in Victoria's time?

answers: text: Beatrice
question: What was the name of Victoria's ninth child?

answers: text: considered it against biblical teaching
question: Why did members of the clergy oppose the use of chloroform for childbirth?

answers: text: post-natal depression
question: After nine pregnancies, what could Victoria have been suffering from that would make her sad and depressed?

context: In March 1861, Victoria's mother died, with Victoria at her side. Through reading her mother's papers, Victoria discovered that her mother had loved her deeply; she was heart-broken, and blamed Conroy and Lehzen for "wickedly" estranging her from her mother. To relieve his wife during her intense and deep grief, Albert took on most of her duties, despite being ill himself with chronic stomach trouble. In August, Victoria and Albert visited their son, the Prince of Wales, who was attending army manoeuvres near Dublin, and spent a few days holidaying in Killarney. In November, Albert was made aware of gossip that his son had slept with an actress in Ireland. Appalled, Albert travelled to Cambridge, where his son was studying, to confront him. By the beginning of December, Albert was very unwell. He was diagnosed with typhoid fever by William Jenner, and died on 14 December 1861. Victoria was devastated. She blamed her husband's death on worry over the Prince of Wales's philandering. He had been "killed by that dreadful business", she said. She entered a state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of her life. She avoided public appearances, and rarely set foot in London in the following years. Her seclusion earned her the nickname "widow of Windsor".
qas: answers: text: 1861
question: During which year did Victoria's mother die?

answers: text: Through reading her mother's papers
question: How did Victoria realize that her mother deeply loved her?

answers: text: chronic stomach trouble
question: What was Albert ill with?

answers: text: Prince of Wales's philandering
question: What did Victoria blame Albert's death on?

answers: text: army manoeuvres
question: What was Prince of Wales attending to in Dublin?

answers: text: 1861
question: What year did Victoria's mother die?

answers: text: 1861
question: What year did Albert die?

answers: text: Conroy and Lehzen
question: Who did Victoria blame for her poor relationship with her mother?

answers: text: Albert
question: Who took on most of Victoria's duties while she grieved her mothers death?

answers: text: chronic stomach trouble
question: What illness was Albert suffering from while he helped Victoria through her grief?

answers: text: March 1861
question: When did Victoria's mother die? 

answers: text: typhoid fever
question: What disease was Albert diagnosed with? 

answers: text: 14 December 1861
question: When did Albert die of his illness? 

answers: text: widow of Windsor
question: What was Victoria's nickname following Alberts death? 

answers: text: an actress in Ireland
question: Who was the Prince of Wales suspected to be having an affair with? 

answers: text: 1861
question: When did the Duchess die?

answers: text: Conroy and Lehzen
question: Who did Victoria blame for the problems between herself and the Duchess?

answers: text: typhoid fever
question: What caused Prince Albert's death?

answers: text: their son, the Prince of Wales
question: Who did Victoria blame for Prince Albert's death?

answers: text: had slept with an actress in Ireland
question: What gossip did Prince Albert hear about their son?

context: On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen as her carriage left Windsor railway station. Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman. Victoria was outraged when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but was so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she said it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved".
qas: answers: text: Roderick Maclean
question: Who shot at the queen?

answers: text: 2 March 1882
question: When was the shooting?

answers: text: poet
question: What was Maclean's occupation?

answers: text: Eton College
question: Which college were to two boys attending?

answers: text: umbrellas
question: With what did the college boy's hit the shooter with?

answers: text: Roderick Maclean
question: Who shot Queen Victoria?

answers: text: 1882
question: What year was the Queen shot?

answers: text: Two schoolboys from Eton College
question: Who stopped Maclean after he shot the Queen?

answers: text: not guilty by reason of insanity
question: What did the court determine was the fate for Maclean after shooting the Queen?

answers: text: struck him with their umbrellas
question: How did the schoolboys stop Maclean?

answers: text: Roderick Maclean
question: What disgruntled poet shot at Victoria's carriage on March 2, 1882?

answers: text: Eton College
question: What school did the boys who defended the Queen with umbrellas attend? 

answers: text: he was found not guilty by reason of insanity
question: What was the verdict in Roderick Maclean's trial? 

answers: text: offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems
question: What provoked the attack on Queen Victoria as she left Windsor? 

answers: text: outraged
question: What was Victoria's reaction to the verdict?

answers: text: Roderick Maclean
question: Who attempted to assassinate the Queen?

answers: text: not guilty by reason of insanity
question: What was the verdict in Maclean's trial?

answers: text: "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved"
question: What position did Victoria take on being shot at?

answers: text: 2 March 1882
question: When did Maclean attempt to shoot Victoria?

answers: text: refusal to accept one of his poems
question: Why did Maclean shoot at Victoria?

context: Gladstone returned to power after the 1892 general election; he was 82 years old. Victoria objected when Gladstone proposed appointing the Radical MP Henry Labouchere to the Cabinet, so Gladstone agreed not to appoint him. In 1894, Gladstone retired and, without consulting the outgoing prime minister, Victoria appointed Lord Rosebery as prime minister. His government was weak, and the following year Lord Salisbury replaced him. Salisbury remained prime minister for the remainder of Victoria's reign.
qas: answers: text: 1892
question: What year did Gladstone return to power?

answers: text: 82
question: How old was Gladstone in 1892?

answers: text: 1894
question: What year did Gladstone retire?

answers: text: prime minister
question: What position did Victoria appoint Lord Rosebery?

answers: text: 1892
question: What year did Gadstone return to power?

answers: text: Lord Salisbury
question: Who replaced Lord Rosebery the year following his appointment?

answers: text: 82 years old
question: How old was Gladstone when he returned to power?

answers: text: 1894
question: What year did Gladstone retire?

answers: text: Lord Rosebery
question: Who did Victoria appoint to replace Gladstone?

answers: text: 82 years old
question: How old was Gladstone after the general election in 1892? 

answers: text: Henry Labouchere
question: What radical MP did Victoria object to being appointed to the cabinet by Gladstone? 

answers: text: Lord Rosebery
question: Who did Victoria appoint to Prime Minister after Gladstone retired in 1894?

answers: text: Lord Salisbury
question: Who replaced Lord Rosenbery after only a year of government? 

answers: text: for the remainder of Victoria's reign
question: How long did Lord Salisbury remain as Prime Minister?

answers: text: Gladstone
question: Who was returned to power in 1892?

answers: text: Lord Rosebery
question: Who did Victoria appoint as Gladstone's succesor?

answers: text: His government was weak
question: How did Lord Roseberry fare as Prime Minister?

answers: text: Lord Salisbury
question: Who replaced Lord Roseberry as Prime Minister?

answers: text: the remainder of Victoria's reign
question: How long was Lord Sailsbury Prime Minister?

context: In 1897, Victoria had written instructions for her funeral, which was to be military as befitting a soldier's daughter and the head of the army, and white instead of black. On 25 January, Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, helped lift her body into the coffin. She was dressed in a white dress and her wedding veil. An array of mementos commemorating her extended family, friends and servants were laid in the coffin with her, at her request, by her doctor and dressers. One of Albert's dressing gowns was placed by her side, with a plaster cast of his hand, while a lock of John Brown's hair, along with a picture of him, was placed in her left hand concealed from the view of the family by a carefully positioned bunch of flowers. Items of jewellery placed on Victoria included the wedding ring of John Brown's mother, given to her by Brown in 1883. Her funeral was held on Saturday, 2 February, in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and after two days of lying-in-state, she was interred beside Prince Albert in Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park. As she was laid to rest at the mausoleum, it began to snow.
qas: answers: text: Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
question: Which two people helped lift Victoria's body into the coffin?

answers: text: wedding veil
question: What item from her wedding was Victoria dressed in inside her coffin?

answers: text: white
question: What color was her dress?

answers: text: Albert's
question: Who's dressing gown was placed by her side?

answers: text: his hand
question: A plaster cast of what part of Alberts body was placed in the coffin with the Queen?

answers: text: St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
question: Where was the funeral of Queen Victoria held?

answers: text: a white dress and her wedding veil
question: What clothing was Queen Victoria laid to rest in?

answers: text: 1897
question: What year did Queen Victoria die?

answers: text: a lock of John Brown's hair
question: What was placed in the Queens left hand when she was placed in her coffin?

answers: text: She was dressed in a white dress and her wedding veil
question: What did Victoria wear upon her death in her coffin? 

answers: text: John Brown
question: Whose lock of hair was concealed in her left hand by flowers? 

answers: text: 1883
question: When did John Brown give Victoria his mother's wedding ring? 

answers: text: Saturday, 2 February
question: When was Queen Victoria's funeral held? 

answers: text: Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park
question: Where was Queen Victoria laid to rest after her death? 

answers: text: Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park
question: Where was Victoria laid to rest?

answers: text: 2 February
question: When was Queen Victoria's funeral held?

answers: text: a lock of John Brown's hair, along with a picture of him
question: What was hidden in Queen Victoria's hand by her father's family?

answers: text: a white dress and her wedding veil
question: How was Victoria dressed for burial?

answers: text: Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
question: Who placed Victoria into her coffin?

context: Victoria wrote to her uncle Leopold, whom Victoria considered her "best and kindest adviser", to thank him "for the prospect of great happiness you have contributed to give me, in the person of dear Albert ... He possesses every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy. He is so sensible, so kind, and so good, and so amiable too. He has besides the most pleasing and delightful exterior and appearance you can possibly see." However at 17, Victoria, though interested in Albert, was not yet ready to marry. The parties did not undertake a formal engagement, but assumed that the match would take place in due time.
qas: answers: text: uncle Leopold
question: Who was considered Victoria's best and kindest advisor?

answers: text: Albert
question: Who did Victoria describe as sensible, kind, and amiable?

answers: text: uncle Leopold
question: Who introduced Albert to Victoria?

answers: text: Leopold
question: What Uncle was Victoria's favorite adviser?

answers: text: 17
question: How old was Victoria when she met Albert?

answers: text: her uncle Leopold
question: Who introduced Victoria and Albert?

answers: text: every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy
question: What qualities did Victoria believe Albert posessed when she met him?

answers: text: uncle Leopold
question: Whom did Queen Victoria consider her "best and kindest adviser"? 

answers: text: Albert
question: Who was Victoria not ready to marry at age 17?

answers: text: the most pleasing and delightful exterior
question: What was Victoria's opinion of Albert's appearance? 

answers: text: her uncle Leopold
question: Who did Victoria credit for her relationship to Albert?

answers: text: He possesses every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy
question: What did Victoria think of Albert at 17 years of age?

answers: text: sensible, so kind, and so good, and so amiable
question: What were Albert's best qualities?

answers: text: most pleasing and delightful exterior and appearance
question: How did Victoria find Albert's looks?

answers: text: 17
question: How old was Victoria when she was introduced to Albert?

context: In 1839, Melbourne resigned after Radicals and Tories (both of whom Victoria detested) voted against a bill to suspend the constitution of Jamaica. The bill removed political power from plantation owners who were resisting measures associated with the abolition of slavery. The Queen commissioned a Tory, Sir Robert Peel, to form a new ministry. At the time, it was customary for the prime minister to appoint members of the Royal Household, who were usually his political allies and their spouses. Many of the Queen's ladies of the bedchamber were wives of Whigs, and Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. In what became known as the bedchamber crisis, Victoria, advised by Melbourne, objected to their removal. Peel refused to govern under the restrictions imposed by the Queen, and consequently resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office.
qas: answers: text: to form a new ministry
question: What did the Queen commission Sir Robert Peel to do?

answers: text: 1839
question: In what year did Melbourne resign?

answers: text: Tory
question: Which party was Sir Robert Peel a part of?

answers: text: bedchamber crisis
question: What is the name of crisis where the wives of the Tories were replacing the wives of the Whigs?

answers: text: 1839
question: What year did Melbourne resign?

answers: text: Radicals and Tories
question: Who voted against the bill to end the constitution of Jamaica?

answers: text: Sir Robert Peel
question: Who did the Queen commission to form a new ministry?

answers: text: Melbourne
question: Who returned to office after Peel resigned?

answers: text: the bedchamber crisis
question: The removal of the Queens bedchamber ladies became known as what?

answers: text: Melbourne
question: Who resigned their position in 1839? 

answers: text: The bill removed political power from plantation owners who were resisting measures associated with the abolition of slavery.
question: Why did the Radicals and Tories oppose the bill about the constitution of Jamaica?

answers: text: Sir Robert Peel
question: What Tory did Victoria commision after Melbourne resigned his postion? 

answers: text: resigned his commission
question: After Queen Victoria refuse to replace her ladies with wives of Tories, what did Sir Robert Peel do? 

answers: text: Melbourne
question: Who did Victoria reappoint to the position after the Bedchamber Crisis? 

answers: text: voted against a bill to suspend the constitution of Jamaica
question: What did the Radicals and Tories do that made Melbourne resign?

answers: text: plantation owners
question: Which group was resisting the abolisment of slavery and were subsequently removed from power when the bill was voted down?

answers: text: wives of Tories
question: Who did Robert Peel want to replace the ladies of the bedchamber with, instead of wives of Whigs?

answers: text: Peel refused to govern under the restrictions imposed by the Queen
question: Why did Peel resign his comission?

answers: text: Melbourne
question: Who returned to office after Peel resigned?

context: Internationally, Victoria took a keen interest in the improvement of relations between France and Britain. She made and hosted several visits between the British royal family and the House of Orleans, who were related by marriage through the Coburgs. In 1843 and 1845, she and Albert stayed with King Louis Philippe I at château d'Eu in Normandy; she was the first British or English monarch to visit a French one since the meeting of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. When Louis Philippe made a reciprocal trip in 1844, he became the first French king to visit a British sovereign. Louis Philippe was deposed in the revolutions of 1848, and fled to exile in England. At the height of a revolutionary scare in the United Kingdom in April 1848, Victoria and her family left London for the greater safety of Osborne House, a private estate on the Isle of Wight that they had purchased in 1845 and redeveloped. Demonstrations by Chartists and Irish nationalists failed to attract widespread support, and the scare died down without any major disturbances. Victoria's first visit to Ireland in 1849 was a public relations success, but it had no lasting impact or effect on the growth of Irish nationalism.
qas: answers: text: France and Britain
question: Which two countries was Victoria trying to improve relations between?

answers: text: by marriage through the Coburgs
question: How was the House of Orleans and the British Royal family related?

answers: text: King Louis Philippe I
question: Who did Victoria stay with in Normandy?

answers: text: 1849
question: What year did Victoria first visit Ireland?

answers: text: 1844
question: What year did Louis Philippe visit England?

answers: text: France and Britain
question: What two countries did Victoria take a large interest in improving relations between?

answers: text: 1849
question: What year was Victorias first visit to Ireland?

answers: text: House of Orleans
question: Queen Victoria set up meetings between The Britian royal family and what house to help improve relations between Britain and France?

answers: text: King Louis Philippe I
question: What was the name of the King of Normandy that Victoria and Albert stayed with in 1843 and 1845?

answers: text: Louis Philippe
question: Who was the first French King to visit Queen Victoria?

answers: text: Louis Philippe
question: Who was the first French king to visit Queen Victoria? 

answers: text: fled to exile in England
question: What happened to Louis Philippe after the revolution in France? 

answers: text: Osborne House
question: Where did Victoria and her family retreat to safety during a conflict in 1848? 

answers: text: Ireland
question: What nation was visited for the first time by Victoria in 1849?

answers: text: House of Orleans
question: What French family did Victoria try to foster relations with? 

answers: text: improvement of relations between France and Britain
question: What was one of Victoria's major concerns?

answers: text: 1848
question: When was Louis Phillipe deposed?

answers: text: Osborne House, a private estate on the Isle of Wight
question: Where did Victoria and her family go to for safety during the revolutionary scare of April 1848?

answers: text: 1845
question: When was Osborne house purchased?

answers: text: Chartists and Irish nationalists
question: Which groups were demonstrating and trying to bring about a revolution before, ultimately, failing?

context: On 14 January 1858, an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England. The ensuing diplomatic crisis destabilised the government, and Palmerston resigned. Derby was reinstated as prime minister. Victoria and Albert attended the opening of a new basin at the French military port of Cherbourg on 5 August 1858, in an attempt by Napoleon III to reassure Britain that his military preparations were directed elsewhere. On her return Victoria wrote to Derby reprimanding him for the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French one. Derby's ministry did not last long, and in June 1859 Victoria recalled Palmerston to office.
qas: answers: text: Britain
question: Where was Orsini from?

answers: text: Napoleon III
question: Who did Orsini try to assassinate?

answers: text: Victoria recalled Palmerston to office
question: What happened in June 1859?

answers: text: prime minister
question: What position did Derby hold?

answers: text: 14 January 1858
question: What was the date of an attempted assasination on Napoleon?

answers: text: Orsini
question: What was the name of the person that attempted to assasinate Napoleon?

answers: text: port of Cherbourg
question: What was the name of the French military port that opened on 5 August 1858?

answers: text: England
question: Where was the bomb that Orsini used to attempt to assasinate Napoleon made?

answers: text: Palmerston
question: Who resigned due to the attempt on Napoleons life?

answers: text: Napoleon III
question: Who survived an assasination attempt by the Italian refugee Orsini in 1858?

answers: text: Palmerston
question: Who resigned their position following the scandal due to Orsini's bomb being made in England? 

answers: text: Cherbourg
question: What new military port in France did Victoria and Albert visit after the crisis in 1858?

answers: text: the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French one
question: Why did Victoria repremend Derby following her visit with Napolean III? 

answers: text: Palmerston
question: Who did Victoria recall to office following her disappointment with Derby in June of 1859? 

answers: text: an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini
question: Who attempted to assassinate Napoleon?

answers: text: 14 January 1858
question: When did Orsinin attempt to assassinate Napoleon?

answers: text: a bomb
question: How did Orsini try to assassinate Napoleon?

answers: text: June 1859
question: When did Victoria ask Palmerston to resume his office?

answers: text: French military port of Cherbourg
question: Where did Victoria visit that led her to reprimand Derby for the state of the Royal Navy?

context: Palmerston died in 1865, and after a brief ministry led by Russell, Derby returned to power. In 1866, Victoria attended the State Opening of Parliament for the first time since Albert's death. The following year she supported the passing of the Reform Act 1867 which doubled the electorate by extending the franchise to many urban working men, though she was not in favour of votes for women. Derby resigned in 1868, to be replaced by Benjamin Disraeli, who charmed Victoria. "Everyone likes flattery," he said, "and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." With the phrase "we authors, Ma'am", he complimented her. Disraeli's ministry only lasted a matter of months, and at the end of the year his Liberal rival, William Ewart Gladstone, was appointed prime minister. Victoria found Gladstone's demeanour far less appealing; he spoke to her, she is thought to have complained, as though she were "a public meeting rather than a woman".
qas: answers: text: Palmerston
question: Who died in 1865?

answers: text: Derby
question: Who resigned in 1868?

answers: text: matter of months
question: How long was Disraeli in office?

answers: text: William Ewart Gladstone
question: Who was Disraeli's rival?

answers: text: Liberal
question: What political view did Gladstone hold?

answers: text: 1865
question: What year did Palmerston die?

answers: text: Russell
question: Who let the ministry for a very short time after the death of Palmerston?

answers: text: Derby
question: Who returned to power after Russels brief rule of the ministry?

answers: text: 1866
question: Following Alberts death, what was the first year that Victoria attended the State opening of Parliment?

answers: text: Benjamin Disraeli
question: Who replaced Derby after his resignation?

answers: text: 1865
question: What year did Pamerston die? 

answers: text: State Opening of Parliament
question: What event did Victoria attend in 1866 for the first time following Albert's death?

answers: text: Reform Act 1867
question: What Act by Victoria granted the ability to vote to working men, but not women? 

answers: text: Benjamin Disraeli
question: Who replaced Derby when he resigned in 1868? 

answers: text: William Ewart Gladstone
question: What Liberal replaced Disraeli after only a few short months in office? 

answers: text: 1865
question: When did Palmerston die?

answers: text: Derby
question: Who was ultimately returned to office after Palmerston's death?

answers: text: 1868
question: When did Derby resign?

answers: text: Benjamin Disraeli
question: Who was Derby's replacement?

answers: text: only lasted a matter of months
question: How long did Disralei last in office?

context: In 1887, the British Empire celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Victoria marked the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June with a banquet to which 50 kings and princes were invited. The following day, she participated in a procession and attended a thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey. By this time, Victoria was once again extremely popular. Two days later on 23 June, she engaged two Indian Muslims as waiters, one of whom was Abdul Karim. He was soon promoted to "Munshi": teaching her Hindustani, and acting as a clerk. Her family and retainers were appalled, and accused Abdul Karim of spying for the Muslim Patriotic League, and biasing the Queen against the Hindus. Equerry Frederick Ponsonby (the son of Sir Henry) discovered that the Munshi had lied about his parentage, and reported to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India, "the Munshi occupies very much the same position as John Brown used to do." Victoria dismissed their complaints as racial prejudice. Abdul Karim remained in her service until he returned to India with a pension on her death.
qas: answers: text: 50
question: How many kings and princes were invited to the Golden Jubilee?

answers: text: fiftieth anniversary
question: What year anniversary does the Golden Jubilee celebrate?

answers: text: Her family and retainers
question: Who accused Karim of spying?

answers: text: his parentage
question: What was Munshi lying about?

answers: text: 1887
question: What year was Victoria's Golden Jubilee held?

answers: text: Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India
question: Who did Ponsonby report the Munshis lies about his parentage to?

answers: text: Abdul Karim
question: What was the name of the waited that was promoted to Munshi?

answers: text: Sir Henry
question: Whio was Equerry Frederick Ponsonby's father?

answers: text: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby
question: Who discovered that Victoria's new Munshi lied about his parentage?

answers: text: 1887
question: When was Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee? 

answers: text: Hindustani
question: What was Abdul Karim teaching Queen Victoria after his promotion? 

answers: text: Muslim Patriotic League
question: Who was Karim accused of spying for by Victoria's family? 

answers: text: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby
question: Who discovered that Karim had lied about his parentage to Victoria? 

answers: text: 20 June
question: What day did Queen Victoria celebrate her Golden Jubilee at a dinner with kings and queens from other nations? 

answers: text: 1887
question: When was Victoria's Golden Jubilee?

answers: text: the fiftieth anniversary of her accession
question: What is the point of the Golden Jubilee?

answers: text: Abdul Karim
question: Who was promoted from waiter to Munshi?

answers: text: spying for the Muslim Patriotic League, and biasing the Queen against the Hindus
question: Why did Victoria's family disapprove of Abdul Karim?

answers: text: until he returned to India with a pension on her death
question: How long was Karim in the Queen's employment?

context: Victoria visited mainland Europe regularly for holidays. In 1889, during a stay in Biarritz, she became the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain when she crossed the border for a brief visit. By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable. Instead, the Queen went to Ireland for the first time since 1861, in part to acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war. In July, her second son Alfred ("Affie") died; "Oh, God! My poor darling Affie gone too", she wrote in her journal. "It is a horrible year, nothing but sadness & horrors of one kind & another."
qas: answers: text: Victoria
question: Who was the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain?

answers: text: 1889
question: What year did Queen Victoria first set foot in Spain?

answers: text: 1900
question: What year did Victoria stop her annual visits to Spain due to the Boer war?

answers: text: Ireland
question: Where did Victoria visit instead of Spain during the Boer war?

answers: text: 1900
question: What year did Victoria's second son Alfred die?

answers: text: Biarritz
question: Where did Victoria stay in Spain in 1889? 

answers: text: Boer War
question: What war prevented Queen Victoria from taking her annual trip to France in 1900?

answers: text: Ireland
question: What country did Victoria visit instead of France during the Boer War? 

answers: text: her second son Alfred
question: Which of Queen Victoria's children died in July of that year? 

answers: text: mainland Europe
question: Where did Victoria often go for holiday?

answers: text: set foot in Spain
question: In 1889, what was Victoria the first reining monarch from Britian to do?

answers: text: acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war
question: Why did Victoria visit Ireland in 1861?

answers: text: the Boer War
question: Why was Victoria advised not to visit France in April of 1900?

answers: text: her second son Alfred ("Affie") died
question: What tragedy did Victoria face in July of 1900?

context: Victoria was physically unprepossessing—she was stout, dowdy and no more than five feet tall—but she succeeded in projecting a grand image. She experienced unpopularity during the first years of her widowhood, but was well liked during the 1880s and 1890s, when she embodied the empire as a benevolent matriarchal figure. Only after the release of her diary and letters did the extent of her political influence become known to the wider public. Biographies of Victoria written before much of the primary material became available, such as Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria of 1921, are now considered out of date. The biographies written by Elizabeth Longford and Cecil Woodham-Smith, in 1964 and 1972 respectively, are still widely admired. They, and others, conclude that as a person Victoria was emotional, obstinate, honest, and straight-talking.
qas: answers: text: no more than five feet tall
question: How tall was Queen Victoria?

answers: text: her diary and letters
question: The extent of Victorias political influence became well known after the publishing of what?

answers: text: 1964
question: What year did Elizabeth Longford write a biography of Victoria?

answers: text: 1972
question: What year did Cecil Woodham Smith writ Victorias biography?

answers: text: five feet
question: How tall was Queen Victoria? 

answers: text: Lytton Strachey
question: Who wrote the biography about Queen Victoria that is now considered to be out of date? 

answers: text: Elizabeth Longford
question: What woman wrote a biography of Queen Victoria in 1964?

answers: text: 1972
question: When did Celcil Woodham-Smith also write a well recieved biography about Victoria? 

answers: text: stout, dowdy and no more than five feet tall
question: What was Victoria like, physically?

answers: text: after the release of her diary and letters
question: When did people really start to understand the political mind of Queen Victoria?

answers: text: Elizabeth Longford and Cecil Woodham-Smith
question: Who were two good biographers of Queen Victoria?

answers: text: 1964 and 1972
question: When were the best biographies of Queen Victoria written?

answers: text: emotional, obstinate, honest, and straight-talking
question: What kind of person was Victoria?

context: In 1830, the Duchess of Kent and Conroy took Victoria across the centre of England to visit the Malvern Hills, stopping at towns and great country houses along the way. Similar journeys to other parts of England and Wales were taken in 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835. To the King's annoyance, Victoria was enthusiastically welcomed in each of the stops. William compared the journeys to royal progresses and was concerned that they portrayed Victoria as his rival rather than his heiress presumptive. Victoria disliked the trips; the constant round of public appearances made her tired and ill, and there was little time for her to rest. She objected on the grounds of the King's disapproval, but her mother dismissed his complaints as motivated by jealousy, and forced Victoria to continue the tours. At Ramsgate in October 1835, Victoria contracted a severe fever, which Conroy initially dismissed as a childish pretence. While Victoria was ill, Conroy and the Duchess unsuccessfully badgered her to make Conroy her private secretary. As a teenager, Victoria resisted persistent attempts by her mother and Conroy to appoint him to her staff. Once queen, she banned him from her presence, but he remained in her mother's household.
qas: answers: text: the centre of England
question: In 1830, what part of England did Victoria travel to with Dutchess of Kent and Conroy?

answers: text: Malvern Hills
question: What town did Victoria visit in the center of England on her trip with the Dutchess of kent and Conroy?

answers: text: 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835
question: What years were journeys similar to the Queen trip to Melvern Hills made?

answers: text: his rival
question: Willam was concerned that Victoria would was being portrayed as what because of her trips to central England?

answers: text: William
question: Who was annoyed that Victoria was welcomed at each of her visits to central England?

answers: text: William
question: Who was annoyed at how well recieved Victoria was on her tours of the countryside of England and Wales? 

answers: text: Ramsgate
question: Where did Victoria become seriously ill during one of her trips? 

answers: text: Conroy
question: Who did Victoria dislike so much she banned him from her presence once she became Queen? 

answers: text: private secretary
question: What position did Conroy try and fail to get Victoria to appoint him to during her illness and later? 

answers: text: the Duchess of Kent and Conroy
question: Who took Victoria on a trip to Malvern Hills in 1830?

answers: text: Conroy
question: Who was Victoria convinced to make her secretery when she was very ill?

answers: text: disliked
question: How did Victoria feel about all of the trips?

answers: text: enthusiastically welcomed in each
question: What annoyed the King about the way Victoria was received at her stops?

answers: text: concerned that they portrayed Victoria as his rival
question: Why did the King dislike Victoria taking the trips?

answers: text: banned him from her presence
question: When she was made Queen, what did Victoria do about Conroy?

context: At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne, who at once became a powerful influence on the politically inexperienced Queen, who relied on him for advice. Charles Greville supposed that the widowed and childless Melbourne was "passionately fond of her as he might be of his daughter if he had one", and Victoria probably saw him as a father figure. Her coronation took place on 28 June 1838 at Westminster Abbey. Over 400,000 visitors came to London for the celebrations. She became the first sovereign to take up residence at Buckingham Palace and inherited the revenues of the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall as well as being granted a civil list allowance of £385,000 per year. Financially prudent, she paid off her father's debts.
qas: answers: text: Lord Melbourne
question: Who was in charge of the Governemnt at the time of Victorias ascession?

answers: text: Lord Melbourne
question: What was the name of the Whig Prime minister at the time of Victorias ascession?

answers: text: 28 June 1838
question: When was Queen Victorias coronation held?

answers: text: Westminster Abbey
question: Where was Victorias coronation held?

answers: text: Over 400,000
question: How many visitors came to London for Victorias coronation?

answers: text: 28 June 1838
question: When did Victoria's coronation take place at Westminster Abbey?

answers: text: Charles Greville
question: Who thought that Melbourne saw Victoria as if she was his daughter? 

answers: text: 400,000
question: How many people visited London for the Coronation of Queen Victoria? 

answers: text: £385,000 per year
question: What was Victoria's allowance upon becoming Queen? 

answers: text: Lord Melbourne
question: What Whig was prime minister during Victoria's accession? 

answers: text: Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne
question: Who was leading the government at the time of Victoria's accension?

answers: text: powerful
question: What kind of influence was Melbourne to Victoria?

answers: text: 28 June 1838
question: When was Victoria's coronation?

answers: text: she paid off her father's debts
question: What major accomplishment did Victoria achieve with her civil list allowance?

answers: text: Buckingham Palace
question: Where did Queen Victoria reside?

context: In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight. In the next four years over a million Irish people died and another million emigrated in what became known as the Great Famine. In Ireland, Victoria was labelled "The Famine Queen". She personally donated £2,000 to famine relief, more than any other individual donor, and also supported the Maynooth Grant to a Roman Catholic seminary in Ireland, despite Protestant opposition. The story that she donated only £5 in aid to the Irish, and on the same day gave the same amount to Battersea Dogs Home, was a myth generated towards the end of the 19th century.
qas: answers: text: 1845
question: What year was the potato blight in Ireland?

answers: text: £2,000
question: How much money did Victoria donate to famine relief?

answers: text: four years
question: How long did the Great Famine last?

answers: text: over a million
question: How many Irish people died during the Great Famine?

answers: text: The Famine Queen
question: What was the label given to Queen Victoria during the Great Famine?

answers: text: potato blight
question: What crisis struck Ireland during 1845?

answers: text: over a million
question: How many people died during the Great Famine in Ireland?

answers: text: The Famine Queen
question: What was Queen Victoria called in Ireland during the Great Famine? 

answers: text: that she donated only £5 in aid to the Irish, and on the same day gave the same amount to Battersea Dogs Home
question: What story was later proven false about Victoria during the Great Famine? 

answers: text: £2,000
question: How much did Queen Victoria actually donate to support relief in Ireland, making her the top individual donor? 

answers: text: potato blight
question: What happened that decimated a large portion of Ireland?

answers: text: 1845
question: When did the potato blight begin?

answers: text: a million
question: How many people did Ireland lose to the potato blight?

answers: text: The Famine Queen
question: What did the potato blight cause Victoria to be called?

answers: text: £2,000
question: How much did Victoria donate to Ireland to help with famine relief?

context: Victoria's self-imposed isolation from the public diminished the popularity of the monarchy, and encouraged the growth of the republican movement. She did undertake her official government duties, yet chose to remain secluded in her royal residences—Windsor Castle, Osborne House, and the private estate in Scotland that she and Albert had acquired in 1847, Balmoral Castle. In March 1864, a protester stuck a notice on the railings of Buckingham Palace that announced "these commanding premises to be let or sold in consequence of the late occupant's declining business". Her uncle Leopold wrote to her advising her to appear in public. She agreed to visit the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington and take a drive through London in an open carriage.
qas: answers: text: the republican movement
question: When Victoria isolated herself from the public, what movement began to grow?

answers: text: in her royal residences
question: Where did Victoria isolate herself?

answers: text: Balmoral Castle
question: What was the name of the private Estate in Scotland that Albert and Victoria purchased?

answers: text: 1847
question: What year did the Queen and Albert purchase Balmoral Castle?

answers: text: 1864
question: What year did a protester attach a note to the door at Buckingham Palace saying it was to be sold?

answers: text: Balmoral Castle
question: What private estate did Victoria aquire with Albert in 1847?

answers: text: Buckingham Palace
question: Where did a protector put a notice because of Queen Victoria's lack of public appearances in March of 1864?

answers: text: the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington
question: Where did Victoria visit after Leopold advised her to make more public appearances? 

answers: text: republican movement
question: What movement gained popularity due to the lack of Victoria appearing in public? 

answers: text: self-imposed isolation from the public
question: What was a major reason Victoria's monarchy was not as popular as some others?

answers: text: the growth of the republican movement
question: What did Victoria's isolation give way to?

answers: text: Her uncle Leopold
question: Who advised Vicotria to begin appaering in public?

answers: text: Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington
question: Where did Victoria visit to become more in the public view?

answers: text: take a drive through London in an open carriage
question: What else did Victoria do to try to return her former public image?

context: After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British East India Company, which had ruled much of India, was dissolved, and Britain's possessions and protectorates on the Indian subcontinent were formally incorporated into the British Empire. The Queen had a relatively balanced view of the conflict, and condemned atrocities on both sides. She wrote of "her feelings of horror and regret at the result of this bloody civil war", and insisted, urged on by Albert, that an official proclamation announcing the transfer of power from the company to the state "should breathe feelings of generosity, benevolence and religious toleration". At her behest, a reference threatening the "undermining of native religions and customs" was replaced by a passage guaranteeing religious freedom.
qas: answers: text: 1857
question: What year was the Indian Rebellion?

answers: text: British East India Company
question: What company was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion?

answers: text: British East India Company
question: What company ruled much of India before the end of the Indian Rebellion?

answers: text: both sides
question: Who did the Queen condemn in the Indian Rebellion?

answers: text: British East India Company
question: What ruler was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion in 1857?

answers: text: Albert
question: Who encouraged Victoria to issue an official statement on the conflict of the civil war in India? 

answers: text: were formally incorporated into the British Empire
question: What happened to the British possesions after the Rebellion of 1857? 

answers: text: a reference threatening the "undermining of native religions and customs"
question: What statement was replaced in her proclamation about the civil war? 

answers: text: British East India Company
question: Before 1857, who controlled most of India?

answers: text: the Indian Rebellion of 1857
question: What caused the British East India Company to lose control of India?

answers: text: formally incorporated into the British Empire
question: What happened to the assets of the British East India Company after it was removed from power?

answers: text: relatively balanced view of the conflict, and condemned atrocities on both sides
question: How did the Queen view the Indian Rebellion?

answers: text: "should breathe feelings of generosity, benevolence and religious toleration"
question: What did Victoria believe that an official proclamation transferring control from the company to the monarchy would do?

context: On 17 March 1883, she fell down some stairs at Windsor, which left her lame until July; she never fully recovered and was plagued with rheumatism thereafter. Brown died 10 days after her accident, and to the consternation of her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, Victoria began work on a eulogistic biography of Brown. Ponsonby and Randall Davidson, Dean of Windsor, who had both seen early drafts, advised Victoria against publication, on the grounds that it would stoke the rumours of a love affair. The manuscript was destroyed. In early 1884, Victoria did publish More Leaves from a Journal of a Life in the Highlands, a sequel to her earlier book, which she dedicated to her "devoted personal attendant and faithful friend John Brown". On the day after the first anniversary of Brown's death, Victoria was informed by telegram that her youngest son, Leopold, had died in Cannes. He was "the dearest of my dear sons", she lamented. The following month, Victoria's youngest child, Beatrice, met and fell in love with Prince Henry of Battenberg at the wedding of Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine to Henry's brother Prince Louis of Battenberg. Beatrice and Henry planned to marry, but Victoria opposed the match at first, wishing to keep Beatrice at home to act as her companion. After a year, she was won around to the marriage by Henry and Beatrice's promise to remain living with and attending her.
qas: answers: text: 1883
question: What year did Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?

answers: text: rheumatism thereafter
question: After her fall down the stairs, what health issue was Victoria plaged with thereafter?

answers: text: Brown
question: Who died 10 days after Victorias fall down the stairs?

answers: text: by telegram
question: How was Victoria notified of her youngest son leopolds death?

answers: text: Sir Henry Ponsonby
question: Who was Victorias private secretary during the years following her accident at Windsor?

answers: text: 17 March 1883
question: When was Queen Victoria get injured after taking a fall down some stairs? 

answers: text: John Brown
question: Who did Queen Victoria write a biography about that was never published? 

answers: text: Cannes
question: Where did Victoria's youngest son, Leopold die? 

answers: text: Prince Henry of Battenberg
question: Victoria initially opposed Beatrice's marriage to what man? 

answers: text: at the wedding of Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse
question: Where did Beatrice meet and fall in love with Prince Henry? 

answers: text: she fell down some stairs at Windsor
question: What caused Victoria's rheumatism?

answers: text: Brown
question: Who died 10 days after Victoria's accident?

answers: text: a eulogistic biography
question: What did Victoria begin working on after Brown's death?

answers: text: Sir Henry Ponsonby
question: Who was opposed to Victoria writing a biography of Brown?

answers: text: her youngest son, Leopold, had died in Cannes
question: What happened in Victoria's life on the day after the one year anniversary of Brown's death?

context: Victoria's youngest son, Leopold, was affected by the blood-clotting disease haemophilia B and two of her five daughters, Alice and Beatrice, were carriers. Royal haemophiliacs descended from Victoria included her great-grandsons, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, and Infante Gonzalo of Spain. The presence of the disease in Victoria's descendants, but not in her ancestors, led to modern speculation that her true father was not the Duke of Kent but a haemophiliac. There is no documentary evidence of a haemophiliac in connection with Victoria's mother, and as male carriers always suffer the disease, even if such a man had existed he would have been seriously ill. It is more likely that the mutation arose spontaneously because Victoria's father was over 50 at the time of her conception and haemophilia arises more frequently in the children of older fathers. Spontaneous mutations account for about a third of cases.
qas: answers: text: haemophilia B
question: What blood clotting disease did Victorias youngest son have?

answers: text: two
question: How many of Victorias daughters were carriers of the blood clotting disease that Leopold had?

answers: text: the Duke of Kent
question: It was believed that Victorias true father was a hemophiliac and not who?

answers: text: male
question: What is the sex of carriers that always suffer the blood clotting disease haemophi;ia B?

answers: text: over 50
question: How old was Victorias father at the time of her conception?

answers: text: the blood-clotting disease haemophilia B
question: What disease did Victoria's youngest son have? 

answers: text: Alice and Beatrice
question: Which two of Victoria's daughters also were carriers for the blood clotting disorder? 

answers: text: a haemophiliac
question: Who was Queen Victoria's father rumored to be instead of the Duke of Kent?

answers: text: haemophilia B
question: What disease affected Leopold and was carried by two of Victoria's daughters?

answers: text: Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, and Infante Gonzalo of Spain
question: Which Royal haemophiliacs are said to have descended from Victoria?

answers: text: Alice and Beatrice
question: Which of Victoria's daughters were carriers of haemophilia?

answers: text: older fathers
question: What is a big factor on whether or not an offspring will spontaneously develop haemophilia?

answers: text: about a third of cases
question: In how many births do spontaneous cases of haemophilia arise?

context: Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne aged 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, Victoria attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.
qas: answers: text: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III
question: Who was Queen Victorias father?

answers: text: 1820
question: What year did Victorias Father die?

answers: text: 18
question: How old was Victoria when she inherited the throne?

answers: text: 1820
question: What year did King George III die?

answers: text: German
question: What nationality was Queen Victorias mother?

answers: text: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
question: What was the name of Victoria's father? 

answers: text: 1820
question: When did the Duke of Kent die? 

answers: text: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
question: What was Victoria's mother's name?

answers: text: 18
question: At what age did Victoria inherit the throne, upon the death of her father's three eldest brothers?

answers: text: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III
question: Who was Victoria's father?

answers: text: mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
question: Who raised Victoria?

answers: text: aged 18
question: When did Victoria inherit the throne of England?

answers: text: her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children
question: Why did Victoria inherit the throne?

answers: text: constitutional monarchy
question: What kind of government did England have at the time?

context: At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession after her father and his three older brothers: the Prince Regent, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Clarence (later William IV). The Prince Regent and the Duke of York were estranged from their wives, who were both past child-bearing age, so the two eldest brothers were unlikely to have any further children. The Dukes of Kent and Clarence married on the same day 12 months before Victoria's birth, but both of Clarence's daughters (born in 1819 and 1820 respectively) died as infants. Victoria's grandfather and father died in 1820, within a week of each other, and the Duke of York died in 1827. On the death of her uncle George IV in 1830, Victoria became heiress presumptive to her next surviving uncle, William IV. The Regency Act 1830 made special provision for the Duchess of Kent to act as regent in case William died while Victoria was still a minor. King William distrusted the Duchess's capacity to be regent, and in 1836 declared in her presence that he wanted to live until Victoria's 18th birthday, so that a regency could be avoided.
qas: answers: text: fifth
question: What was Victorias place in line of succession to the throne when she was born?

answers: text: 1820
question: What year did Victoria's father and grandfather die?

answers: text: 1830
question: What year did Victorias Uncle George IV die?

answers: text: within a week of each other
question: What was th elength of time between the deaths of Victoria's father and grandfather?

answers: text: 1827
question: What year did the Duke of York die?

answers: text: fifth
question: What place was Victoria in the line of succession after her birth? 

answers: text: Duke of Clarence
question: Whose infant daugheters both died, leaving him without an heir to the throne of England? 

answers: text: 1830
question: When did George IV die? 

answers: text: made special provision for the Duchess of Kent to act as regent in case William died while Victoria was still a minor.
question: What was the Regency Act of 1830?

answers: text: King William
question: Who distrusted the Duchesses capability to reign in Victoria's place until she became of age? 

answers: text: fifth
question: Where did Victoria fall in the line of succession?

answers: text: her father and his three older brothers
question: Who came in line for the throne before Victoria?

answers: text: became heiress presumptive to her next surviving uncle
question: What happened when Victoria's Uncle George IV died?

answers: text: William IV
question: Who was Victoria's last surviving uncle?

answers: text: Duchess of Kent
question: Who was to act as regent if George died while Victoria was still a minor?

context: Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided. On 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. In her diary she wrote, "I was awoke at 6 o'clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing gown) and alone, and saw them. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen." Official documents prepared on the first day of her reign described her as Alexandrina Victoria, but the first name was withdrawn at her own wish and not used again.
qas: answers: text: 24 May 1837
question: On what date did Victoria turn 18?

answers: text: 20 June 1837
question: On what date did William IV die?

answers: text: 71
question: How old was William IV when he died?

answers: text: 12 minutes past 2
question: What was the exact time that Victorias Uncle, the King, died?

answers: text: Alexandrina Victoria
question: What is the name given to Victoria on official documents?

answers: text: 24 May 1837
question: When did Victoria turn 18?

answers: text: 20 June 1837
question: When did Victoria become Queen upon William IV's death? 

answers: text: Alexandrina Victoria
question: What name was Victoria referred to as on only the first day of her reign?

answers: text: 71
question: How old was Victoria's Uncle, King Willaim on his death? 

answers: text: the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham
question: Who informed Victoria of her Uncle's passing and that she was now to become Queen of England? 

answers: text: 20 June 1837, William IV died
question: What caused Victoria to become the Queen of the United Kingdom?

answers: text: Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham
question: Who came to tell Victoria that she was to be Queen of the United Kingdom?

answers: text: Alexandrina Victoria
question: What name did the first official documents of Victoria's monarchy have her listed as?

answers: text: 71
question: How old was William IV when he died?

answers: text: sitting-room
question: Where did she receive the news that she was to be queen?

context: Though queen, as an unmarried young woman Victoria was required by social convention to live with her mother, despite their differences over the Kensington System and her mother's continued reliance on Conroy. Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to see her. When Victoria complained to Melbourne that her mother's close proximity promised "torment for many years", Melbourne sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage, which Victoria called a "schocking  [sic] alternative". She showed interest in Albert's education for the future role he would have to play as her husband, but she resisted attempts to rush her into wedlock.
qas: answers: text: unmarried
question: What was the marital status of Victoria when she became the queen?

answers: text: her mother
question: Whi did Victoria have to live with because she was unmarried?

answers: text: Kensington System
question: Victoria and her mother had differences over what system?

answers: text: Conroy
question: Victoria and her mother had differences over her mothers reliances on who?

answers: text: a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace
question: Where was Victorias mother assigned to live?

answers: text: the Kensington System
question: What did Victoria and her mother disagree on? 

answers: text: Conroy
question: Whom did Victoria's mother continue to rely on, despite Victoria's displeasure? 

answers: text: Melbourne
question: To whom did Queen Victoria lament that marriage was a shocking alternative to her mother's prescence? 

answers: text: Buckingham Palace
question: Where did both Queen Victoria and her mother reside after she became Queen? 

answers: text: with her mother
question: Where did Victoria live at the beginning of her reign?

answers: text: was required by social convention
question: Why did Victoria live with her mother at the beginning of her reign?

answers: text: marriage
question: What could have allowed Victoria freedom from living with her mother?

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

answers: text: close proximity promised "torment for many years"
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?

context: On 29 May 1842, Victoria was riding in a carriage along The Mall, London, when John Francis aimed a pistol at her but the gun did not fire; he escaped. 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. As expected, Francis shot at her, but he was seized by plain-clothes policemen, and convicted of high treason. On 3 July, two days after Francis's death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, John William Bean also tried to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it was loaded only with paper and tobacco and had too little charge. Edward Oxford felt that the attempts were encouraged by his acquittal in 1840. Bean was sentenced to 18 months in jail. In a similar attack in 1849, unemployed Irishman William Hamilton fired a powder-filled pistol at Victoria's carriage as it passed along Constitution Hill, London. In 1850, the Queen did sustain injury when she was assaulted by a possibly insane ex-army officer, Robert Pate. As Victoria was riding in a carriage, Pate struck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead. Both Hamilton and Pate were sentenced to seven years' transportation.
qas: answers: text: John Francis
question: What was the name of the man that tried to shoot Queen Victoria?

answers: text: the gun did not fire
question: Why did Francis fail to kill Queen Victoria?

answers: text: 29 May 1842
question: On what date did John Francis try to shoot Queen Victoria?

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

answers: text: he escaped
question: What happened to Francis after his attempt to shoot Victoria?

answers: text: John Francis
question: Who made two unsuccessful attempts on Queen Victoria's life in 1842?

answers: text: transportation for life
question: What was John Francis's eventual sentence for the attempt on the Queens life? 

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

answers: text: William Hamilton
question: Who fired a shot at Queen Victoria's carriage in 1849?

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

answers: text: John Francis
question: Who escaped Victoria's guards after attempting to fire a shot at her?

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

answers: text: paper and tobacco
question: What did John William Bean try to fire at Queen Victoria?

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

answers: text: 1849
question: When did William Hamilton fire a powder charge at Victoria's carriage?

context: Russell's ministry, though Whig, was not favoured by the Queen. She found particularly offensive the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, who often acted without consulting the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, or the Queen. Victoria complained to Russell that Palmerston sent official dispatches to foreign leaders without her knowledge, but Palmerston was retained in office and continued to act on his own initiative, despite her repeated remonstrances. It was only in 1851 that Palmerston was removed after he announced the British government's approval of President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup in France without consulting the Prime Minister. The following year, President Bonaparte was declared Emperor Napoleon III, by which time Russell's administration had been replaced by a short-lived minority government led by Lord Derby.
qas: answers: text: Whig
question: What political party was Russells ministry?

answers: text: Emperor Napoleon III
question: What was president Bonapartes name changed to?

answers: text: Lord Palmerston
question: What was the name of the foreign secretary that Victoria found offensive?

answers: text: Russell
question: To whom did Victoria complain about Palmerston?

answers: text: 1851
question: What year was Palmerston removed from office?

answers: text: Foreign Secretary
question: What position did Lord Palmerston hold?

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

answers: text: Emperor Napoleon III
question: President Bonaparte was declared what in France? 

answers: text: Lord Derby
question: Who briefly replaced Russell as Prime Minister? 

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

answers: text: Lord Palmerston
question: Who was the Foreign Secretary of Russell's ministry?

answers: text: Whig
question: To what party did Russell and Palmerston belong?

answers: text: a short-lived minority government led by Lord Derby
question: What replaced Russell's administration?

answers: text: declared Emperor Napoleon III
question: What happened to President Bonaparte in 1852?

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

context: Eleven days after Orsini's assassination attempt in France, Victoria's eldest daughter married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in London. They had been betrothed since September 1855, when Princess Victoria was 14 years old; the marriage was delayed by the Queen and Prince Albert until the bride was 17. The Queen and Albert hoped that their daughter and son-in-law would be a liberalising influence in the enlarging Prussian state. Victoria felt "sick at heart" to see her daughter leave England for Germany; "It really makes me shudder", she wrote to Princess Victoria in one of her frequent letters, "when I look round to all your sweet, happy, unconscious sisters, and think I must give them up too – one by one." Almost exactly a year later, Princess Victoria gave birth to the Queen's first grandchild, Wilhelm, who would become the last German Kaiser.
qas: answers: text: Prince Frederick William of Prussia
question: Who did Victorias eldest daughter marry?

answers: text: London
question: Where did Victoria's oldest daughter get married?

answers: text: 14
question: How old was Princess Victoria when she agreed to marry the Prince?

answers: text: 17
question: How old was Princess Victoria when she was married?

answers: text: Germany
question: Where did princess Victoria move to after she was married?

answers: text: Prince Frederick William of Prussia
question: Who did Princess Victoria marry at the age of 17? 

answers: text: 14
question: How old was Princess Victoria when she became engaged to Prince Frederick? 

answers: text: Germany
question: Where did Princess Victoria and her husband leave for after their marriage? 

answers: text: Wilhelm
question: What was the name of Queen Victoria's first grandchild? 

answers: text: last German Kaiser
question: What position did Wilhelm later hold in Germany? 

answers: text: Eleven days after Orsini's assassination attempt
question: When was Victoria's oldest daughter married?

answers: text: 17
question: How old was Victoria's oldest daughter when she was amrried?

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

answers: text: Wilhelm
question: Who was the Queen's first grandchild?

answers: text: the last German Kaiser
question: What future awaited the first grandson of Queen Victoria?

context: Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower. The Duke and Duchess of Kent's only child, Victoria, was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London.
qas: answers: text: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
question: Who was Queen Victorias father?

answers: text: Princess Charlotte of Wales
question: Who was the only grandchild of George iii until 1817?

answers: text: George III
question: Who was the reigning King of the United Kingdom until 1817?

answers: text: 1817
question: What year did Princess Charlotte of Wales die?

answers: text: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
question: Who did the Duke of kent marry in 1818?

answers: text: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
question: Who was Queen Victorias father?

answers: text: Princess Charlotte of Wales
question: Who was the only legitimate grandchild of George III?

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

answers: text: Prince of Leiningen
question: Who was Princess Victoria widowed from?

answers: text: 4.15 a.m
question: What time was Queen Victoria born on May 24, 1819?

answers: text: Leopold
question: Who was Princess Charlotte married to until her death? 

answers: text: The Duke and Duchess of Kent
question: Who are Queen Victoria's mother and father?

answers: text: 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819
question: When was Queen Victoria born?

answers: text: 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 father's official title?

answers: text: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
question: What was Queen Victoria's mother's official title?

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

context: By 1836, the Duchess's brother, Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry his niece to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold, Victoria's mother, and Albert's father (Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) were siblings. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. William IV, however, disapproved of any match with the Coburgs, and instead favoured the suit of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, second son of the Prince of Orange. Victoria was aware of the various matrimonial plans and critically appraised a parade of eligible princes. According to her diary, she enjoyed Albert's company from the beginning. After the visit she wrote, "[Albert] is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same colour as mine; his eyes are large and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful." Alexander, on the other hand, was "very plain".
qas: answers: text: the Belgians
question: The Dutchesses brother Leopold was the King of what country?

answers: text: 1831
question: What year did Leopold become King of the Belgians?

answers: text: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
question: Who was the nephew of leopold?

answers: text: Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
question: Who was Alberts father?

answers: text: very plain
question: How did Victoria describe the physical appearance of Alexander?

answers: text: William IV
question: Who disapproved of the proposed marriage between Victoria and Albert?

answers: text: Prince Alexander of the Netherlands
question: Who was the man William IV wanted Victoria to wed instead? 

answers: text: Prince of Orange
question: Prince Alexander was the second son of whom? 

answers: text: very plain
question: What did Victoria think of her suiter, the Prince Alexander of Orange? 

answers: text: enjoyed Albert's company from the beginning
question: How did Victoria feel about Albert?

answers: text: the Duchess's brother, Leopold
question: Who wanted to see Victoria and Albert marry?

answers: text: William IV
question: Who opposed Victoria marrying Albert, or any Coburg?

answers: text: Prince Alexander of the Netherlands
question: Who did William IV feel was a suitable husband for Victoria?

context: At the start of her reign Victoria was popular, but her reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy. Victoria believed the rumours. She hated Conroy, and despised "that odious Lady Flora", because she had conspired with Conroy and the Duchess of Kent in the Kensington System. At first, Lady Flora refused to submit to a naked medical examination, until in mid-February she eventually agreed, and was found to be a virgin. Conroy, the Hastings family and the opposition Tories organised a press campaign implicating the Queen in the spreading of false rumours about Lady Flora. When Lady Flora died in July, the post-mortem revealed a large tumour on her liver that had distended her abdomen. At public appearances, Victoria was hissed and jeered as "Mrs. Melbourne".
qas: answers: text: an abdominal growth
question: What health issue did Flora hastings develope that began to ruin Victorias reputation?

answers: text: one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting
question: What was the job of lady Flora Hastings in Victorias household?

answers: text: an out-of-wedlock pregnancy
question: What was Flora hastings abdominal growth rumored to be?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was rumored to be the father of Flora Hastings "pregnancy"?

answers: text: 1839
question: What year did Victorias reputation begin to suffer?

answers: text: Lady Flora Hastings
question: What lady in waiting was at the heart of a 1839 court scandal?

answers: text: large tumour on her liver
question: What was the cause of Lady Flora's death in July? 

answers: text: Conroy and the Duchess of Kent
question: With whom did Lady Flora consipire against Queen Victoria? 

answers: text: Mrs. Melbourne
question: What was Queen Victoria called after Lady Flora's death due?

answers: text: one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings
question: Who, in Victoria's court, was accused of having a pregnancy outside of mariage?

answers: text: Sir John Conroy
question: Who was believed to be the father of Lady Flor's "baby"?

answers: text: despised
question: What did Victoria think of Lady Flora?

answers: text: the Kensington System
question: Why did Victoria hate Sir Conroy and Lady Flora?

answers: text: large tumour on her liver that had distended her abdomen
question: What was actually the cause of Lady Flora's "pregnancy"?

context: In 1870, republican sentiment in Britain, fed by the Queen's seclusion, was boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic. A republican rally in Trafalgar Square demanded Victoria's removal, and Radical MPs spoke against her. In August and September 1871, she was seriously ill with an abscess in her arm, which Joseph Lister successfully lanced and treated with his new antiseptic carbolic acid spray. In late November 1871, at the height of the republican movement, the Prince of Wales contracted typhoid fever, the disease that was believed to have killed his father, and Victoria was fearful her son would die. As the tenth anniversary of her husband's death approached, her son's condition grew no better, and Victoria's distress continued. To general rejoicing, he pulled through. Mother and son attended a public parade through London and a grand service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral on 27 February 1872, and republican feeling subsided.
qas: answers: text: 1870
question: What year was the Third French Republic established?

answers: text: Trafalgar Square
question: Where was the republica rally held that called for Vuictorias removal?

answers: text: Radical MPs
question: Who spoke against Victoria at the rally in Trafalgar Square?

answers: text: arm
question: In 1871, Victoria became seriously ill with an abscess on what part of her body?

answers: text: Joseph Lister
question: Who lanced and treated the abscess on Queen Victorias arm?

answers: text: boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic
question: How was the republican sentiment in Britain changed?

answers: text: Trafalgar Square
question: Where was a rally calling for Queen Victoria's removal held? 

answers: text: new antiseptic carbolic acid spray
question: What cutting edge treatment did Joseph Lister use to treat Queen Victoria's illness?

answers: text: typhoid fever
question: What disease nearly took the Prince of Wales life? 

answers: text: acid spray
question: WHat was a new antiseptic being used to treat abcesses in the 1870's?

answers: text: establishment of the Third French Republic
question: What helped to boost the rebublicians in 1870?

answers: text: 1870
question: When did the Third French Republic come onto the scene?

answers: text: carbolic acid spray
question: WHat was a new antiseptic being used to treat abcesses in the 1870's?

answers: text: typhoid fever
question: What disease was contracted by the Prince of Wales that nearly ended his life?

answers: text: Radical MPs
question: Who spoke against Victoria at Trafalgar Square?

answers: text: the tenth anniversary of her husband's death
question: After what event did the Prince of Wales' health begin to improve?

context: During Victoria's first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, 18-year-old Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother. Oxford fired twice, but either both bullets missed or, as he later claimed, the guns had no shot. He was tried for high treason and found guilty, but was acquitted on the grounds of insanity. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Victoria's popularity soared, mitigating residual discontent over the Hastings affair and the bedchamber crisis. Her daughter, also named Victoria, was born on 21 November 1840. The Queen hated being pregnant, viewed breast-feeding with disgust, and thought newborn babies were ugly. Nevertheless, over the following seventeen years, she and Albert had a further eight children: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (b. 1841), Alice (b. 1843), Alfred (b. 1844), Helena (b. 1846), Louise (b. 1848), Arthur (b. 1850), Leopold (b. 1853) and Beatrice (b. 1857).
qas: answers: text: 1840
question: What year was Queen Victorias first pregnancy?

answers: text: Edward Oxford
question: Who attempted to assasinate Victoria while she was riding in a carriage?

answers: text: 18
question: How old was Edward Oxford?

answers: text: Prince Albert
question: Who was riding in the carriage with Victoria when Oxford attempted to assasinate her?

answers: text: twice
question: How many times did Oxford fire the gun at Victoria and miss?

answers: text: Edward Oxford
question: Who tried to assassinate Queen Victoria while she was pregnant with her first child?

answers: text: eight
question: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had how many more children after Victoria's birth? 

answers: text: 21 November 1840
question: When was Queen Victoria's first daughter born? 

answers: text: 1841
question: What year was Albert Edward, Queen Victoria's first born son born? 

answers: text: first pregnancy
question: What major life event was Victoria facing when she also had to contend with her first assassination attempt?

answers: text: 1840
question: When was Victoria's first assassination attempt?

answers: text: popularity soared
question: What did the first assassination attempt do for Victoria's reign?

answers: text: high treason
question: What was Edward Oxford charged with after his assassination attempt?

answers: text: acquitted on the grounds of insanity
question: What happened to Edward Oxford to after he was found guilty of high treason?

context: Between April 1877 and February 1878, she threatened five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin. Disraeli's expansionist foreign policy, which Victoria endorsed, led to conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Anglo-Afghan War. "If we are to maintain our position as a first-rate Power", she wrote, "we must ... be Prepared for attacks and wars, somewhere or other, CONTINUALLY." Victoria saw the expansion of the British Empire as civilising and benign, protecting native peoples from more aggressive powers or cruel rulers: "It is not in our custom to annexe countries", she said, "unless we are obliged & forced to do so." To Victoria's dismay, Disraeli lost the 1880 general election, and Gladstone returned as prime minister. When Disraeli died the following year, she was blinded by "fast falling tears", and erected a memorial tablet "placed by his grateful Sovereign and Friend, Victoria R.I."
qas: answers: text: Russia
question: Who did Victoria try to convince Disraeli  to act against during the Russo-Turkish war?

answers: text: no impact
question: What impact did Victorias threats have on the impact of the Russo=Turkish war?

answers: text: expansionist foreign policy
question: What Disraeli policy did Victoria endorse?

answers: text: Disraeli
question: Who lost the Disraeli general election in 1880?

answers: text: Gladstone
question: Who returned as prime minister when Disraeli lost the general election in 1880?

answers: text: Russo-Turkish War
question: What caused Queen Victoria to threaten to abdicate five times? 

answers: text: Congress of Berlin
question: What ended the Russo-Turkish War?

answers: text: protecting native peoples from more aggressive powers or cruel rulers
question: Why did Queen Victoria want to take over other countries? 

answers: text: Gladstone
question: Who was elected Prime Minister after Disareli lost the election in 1880?

answers: text: Disraeli
question: To whom did Queen Victoria dedicate a memorial after his death for grateful service? 

answers: text: be Prepared for attacks and wars, somewhere or other, CONTINUALLY
question: What position did Victoria take on how to be a successful and top notch power?

answers: text: Gladstone
question: Who won the 1880 general election?

answers: text: Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Anglo-Afghan War
question: What conflicts can be attributed to Disraeli's stance on foreign policy?

answers: text: a memorial tablet
question: What did Victoria place to memorialize Disraeli?

context: Napoleon III, since the Crimean War Britain's closest ally, visited London in April 1855, and from 17 to 28 August the same year Victoria and Albert returned the visit. Napoleon III met the couple at Dunkirk and accompanied them to Paris. They visited the Exposition Universelle (a successor to Albert's 1851 brainchild the Great Exhibition) and Napoleon I's tomb at Les Invalides (to which his remains had only been returned in 1840), and were guests of honour at a 1,200-guest ball at the Palace of Versailles.
qas: answers: text: Napoleon III
question: who was britains closest ally since the Crimean war?

answers: text: April 1855
question: When did Napoleon iii visit London?

answers: text: Dunkirk
question: Where did Napoleon Meet Victoria and Albert?

answers: text: Paris
question: Napoleon accompanied Victoria and Alber to what city diring the visit?

answers: text: the Palace of Versailles
question: Victoria and Albert were the guests of honor at a large ball that took place where?

answers: text: Napoleon III
question: Who was Britains's closest ally following the Crimean War?

answers: text: Exposition Universelle
question: What did Napoleon III and the royal couple visit? 

answers: text: 1840
question: When were Napoleon I remains returned to their resting place at Les Invalides? 

answers: text: 1,200
question: How many guests attented a ball at the Palace of Versaille with Napoleon III and the royal couple in attendence?

answers: text: Dunkirk
question: Where did Napoleon III meet Victoria and Albert, before accompanying them to Paris?

answers: text: 1840
question: When were Napoleon I's remains interred in his mausoleum?

answers: text: Napoleon III
question: Who was Britian's closest ally after the Crimean War?

answers: text: Palace of Versailles
question: Where were Victoria and Albert honored guests at ball thrown by Napoleon III?

answers: text: April 1855
question: When did Napoleon III visit London?

context: Through the 1860s, Victoria relied increasingly on a manservant from Scotland, John Brown. Slanderous rumours of a romantic connection and even a secret marriage appeared in print, and the Queen was referred to as "Mrs. Brown". The story of their relationship was the subject of the 1997 movie Mrs. Brown. A painting by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer depicting the Queen with Brown was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and Victoria published a book, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, which featured Brown prominently and in which the Queen praised him highly.
qas: answers: text: John Brown
question: What was the name of the manservent that Victoria had in the 1860's?

answers: text: Scotland
question: Where was John brown, Victorias manservant, from?

answers: text: a romantic connection
question: What kind of a connection was rumored to exist between Victoria and John Brown?

answers: text: Mrs. Brown
question: What was the nickname given to Queen Victoria when rumors of a relationship with John Brown arose?

answers: text: Mrs. Brown
question: What was the name of the 1997 movie depicting the relationship between Victoria and John brown?

answers: text: Scotland
question: What country was Queen Victoria's manservant with whom she was rumored to have a romantic interest?

answers: text: Mrs. Brown
question: What was the name of the movie that told the story of Queen Victoria's romance with John Brown?

answers: text: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
question: What artist painted the Queen and Brown which hung in the Royal Academy?

answers: text: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands
question: In what memior written by Queen Victoria was John Brown praised?

answers: text: John Brown
question: Which manservent was Victoria's most trusted ally?

answers: text: Mrs. Brown
question: Which movie was made about the scandalous affair that Victoria was believed to have had with John Brown?

answers: text: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands
question: Which book did Victoria publish that did nothing to take away from the rumors about her and John Brown?

answers: text: John Brown
question: Who did the Queen feature in her book that drew so much criticism?

context: Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Rheumatism in her legs had rendered her lame, and her eyesight was clouded by cataracts. Through early January, she felt "weak and unwell", and by mid-January she was "drowsy ... dazed, [and] confused". She died on Tuesday, 22 January 1901, at half past six in the evening, at the age of 81. Her son and successor King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, were at her deathbed. Her favourite pet Pomeranian, Turri, was laid upon her deathbed as a last request.
qas: answers: text: Osborne House
question: Where did Victoria spend the Christmas of 1900?

answers: text: on the Isle of Wight
question: Where was osborne House that Victoria spent christmas at located?

answers: text: Rheumatism in her legs
question: What had caused Victoria to be lame?

answers: text: cataracts
question: Why was Victorias eyesight clouded?

answers: text: 22 January 1901
question: What was the date of Queen Victorias death?

answers: text: Isle of Wight
question: Where was Osborne House located?

answers: text: Tuesday, 22 January 1901
question: When did Queen Victoria die? 

answers: text: 81
question: How old was Queen Victoria upon her death? 

answers: text: King Edward VII
question: Who was Queen Victoria's successor after her death? 

answers: text: pet Pomeranian, Turri
question: Who did she wish to see on her deathbed, making it her last request? 

answers: text: Osborne House on the Isle of Wight
question: Where did Victoria usually spend Christmases?

answers: text: Rheumatism
question: What caused Victoria limited mobility later in life?

answers: text: Tuesday, 22 January 1901
question: Whaen did Queen Victoria die?

answers: text: 81
question: How old was Victoria when she died?

answers: text: King Edward VII
question: Who was Queen Victoria's successor?

context: In the 1874 general election, Disraeli was returned to power. He passed the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, which removed Catholic rituals from the Anglican liturgy and which Victoria strongly supported. She preferred short, simple services, and personally considered herself more aligned with the presbyterian Church of Scotland than the episcopal Church of England. He also pushed the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, so that Victoria took the title "Empress of India" from 1 May 1876. The new title was proclaimed at the Delhi Durbar of 1 January 1877.
qas: answers: text: Royal Titles Act 1876
question: What Act did Disraeli push through Parliment in 1876?

answers: text: Empress of India
question: In 1876 Victoria held what title?

answers: text: 1874
question: What year was the Public Worship Regulation Act passed?

answers: text: presbyterian Church of Scotland
question: What Church did Victoria consider herself aligned with?

answers: text: 1874
question: In a general election of what year was Disraeli returned to power?

answers: text: Public Worship Regulation Act 1874
question: What removed Catholic Rituals from Anglican services? 

answers: text: presbyterian Church of Scotland
question: Which church did Queen Victoria consider her favorite? 

answers: text: Disraeli
question: Who published the Royal Titles Act of 1876?

answers: text: 1 May 1876
question: When was Queen Victoria named the Empress of India? 

answers: text: Delhi Durbar
question: Where was the new title of Empress of India proclaimed? 

answers: text: 1874
question: When was Disraeli returned to office?

answers: text: removed Catholic rituals
question: What change, supported by Victoria, did Disraeli make to the Anglician liturgy?

answers: text: presbyterian Church of Scotland
question: Where did Victoria really align herself when it came to religion?

answers: text: Royal Titles Act 1876
question: What allowed Victoria to become the Empress of India?

answers: text: Public Worship Regulation Act 1874
question: Whic act, passed by Disraeli, allowed him to alter the Anglician liturgy?

context: Through Victoria's reign, the gradual establishment of a modern constitutional monarchy in Britain continued. Reforms of the voting system increased the power of the House of Commons at the expense of the House of Lords and the monarch. In 1867, Walter Bagehot wrote that the monarch only retained "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn". As Victoria's monarchy became more symbolic than political, it placed a strong emphasis on morality and family values, in contrast to the sexual, financial and personal scandals that had been associated with previous members of the House of Hanover and which had discredited the monarchy. The concept of the "family monarchy", with which the burgeoning middle classes could identify, was solidified.
qas: answers: text: modern constitutional monarchy
question: What kind of monarchy was formed under Queen Victoria?

answers: text: the voting system
question: Reforms to what system increased the power of the house fo commons?

answers: text: morality and family values
question: As Victorias rule became less polital, what values were emphasized?

answers: text: family monarchy
question: What type of monarchy was established as time went on in Victorias rule?

answers: text: increased the power
question: How did the reforms of Britains voting system affect the House of Commons? 

answers: text: emphasis on morality and family values
question: What was most important as the monarchy under Queen Victoria shifted from political to symbolic? 

answers: text: family monarchy
question: What idea was solidified to which the increasing middle classes in Britain could identify with?

answers: text: modern constitutional monarchy
question: What was Queen Victoria's reign considered? 

answers: text: modern constitutional monarchy
question: What kind of government was Victoria's reign leaning towards?

answers: text: Reforms of the voting system
question: What increased the power in the House of Commons?

answers: text: House of Lords and the monarch
question: Who paid the price for the reforms of the voting system?

answers: text: symbolic
question: Rather than political, what was Victoria's monarchy seen as?

answers: text: family
question: What was a monarchy that the more middle clas could get behind and support?

context: Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated. She thought his government was "the worst I have ever had", and blamed him for the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Gladstone was replaced by Lord Salisbury. Salisbury's government only lasted a few months, however, and Victoria was forced to recall Gladstone, whom she referred to as a "half crazy & really in many ways ridiculous old man". Gladstone attempted to pass a bill granting Ireland home rule, but to Victoria's glee it was defeated. In the ensuing election, Gladstone's party lost to Salisbury's and the government switched hands again.
qas: answers: text: 1885
question: What year did Gladstone resign?

answers: text: his budget
question: Gladstone resigned after what was defeted?

answers: text: General Gordon at Khartoum.
question: Victoria blamed Gladstone for the death of who?

answers: text: Lord Salisbury
question: Who replaced Gladstone after he resigned?

answers: text: a few months
question: How long did Lord Salisburys government last?

answers: text: General Gordon
question: What man was Gladstone blamed for after his death at Khartoum?

answers: text: Lord Salisbury
question: Who replaced Gladstone for only a few short months? 

answers: text: granting Ireland home rule
question: What did the bill Gladstone failed to pass state, much to Queen Victoria's pleasure? 

answers: text: Salisbury
question: Who defeated Gladstone yet again in the general elction?

answers: text: his budget was defeated
question: Why did Gladstone resign in 1885? 

answers: text: 1885
question: When did Gladstone resign?

answers: text: his budget was defeated
question: Why did Gladstone resign?

answers: text: pleased
question: How did Victoria feel about the resignation of Gladstone?

answers: text: General Gordon
question: Who's death did Victoria blame on Gladstone?

answers: text: Lord Salisbury
question: Who replaced Gladstone?

context: According to one of her biographers, Giles St Aubyn, Victoria wrote an average of 2,500 words a day during her adult life. From July 1832 until just before her death, she kept a detailed journal, which eventually encompassed 122 volumes. After Victoria's death, her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, was appointed her literary executor. Beatrice transcribed and edited the diaries covering Victoria's accession onwards, and burned the originals in the process. Despite this destruction, much of the diaries still exist. In addition to Beatrice's edited copy, Lord Esher transcribed the volumes from 1832 to 1861 before Beatrice destroyed them. Part of Victoria's extensive correspondence has been published in volumes edited by A. C. Benson, Hector Bolitho, George Earle Buckle, Lord Esher, Roger Fulford, and Richard Hough among others.
qas: answers: text: average of 2,500
question: How many words a day did Victoria write?

answers: text: 1832
question: What year did Victoria begin keeping a journal?

answers: text: 122
question: How many volumes was Queen Victorias journal?

answers: text: Princess Beatrice
question: Who was Victorias youngest daughter?

answers: text: transcribed and edited
question: What did Beatrice do to her mothers diaries after her death?

answers: text: 122
question: How many journals did Queen Victoria write in her lifetime?

answers: text: burned the originals
question: What did Beatrice do with the journals after she transcribed and edited them? 

answers: text: Princess Beatrice
question: Who was appointed as Queen Victoria's literary executor upon her death? 

answers: text: Lord Esher
question: Who transcribed Queen Victoria's journals from 1832 to 1861? 

answers: text: Giles St Aubyn
question: What biographer said Queen Victoria wrote an average of 2500 words a day in her journals?

answers: text: Victoria wrote an average of 2,500 words a day
question: How avid of a writer was the Queen?

answers: text: 122 volumes
question: How many volumes did her journal span?

answers: text: transcribed and edited
question: What did Beatrice do with her mother's journals?

answers: text: her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice
question: Who was Victoria's literary executer?

answers: text: burned
question: What did Beatrice do with the origional volumes of her mother's diaries?