Queen_Victoria

qas: question: Who did Victoria marry?
answers: text: Prince Albert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who did Victoria divorce?

question: What is her nickname that she was given because her siblings married into royal families across the continent?

question: What year didn't Prince Albert die?

question: How many children didn't she have?

question: In the earlier half of her reign, what happened to her popularity?
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: question: Who was extremely protective over Victoria?
answers: text: mother

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Kensington System

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: Sir John Conroy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who was extremely unprotective over Victoria?

question: What system of rules kept her in contact with other children?

question: Who was the Dutchess' rumored friend?

question: What was Victoria's cat's name?

question: During her free time, what didn't she play with?
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: question: Who was Victoria's eighth child?
answers: text: Leopold

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who was Victoria's 18th child?

question: What anaesthetic helped her give birth to her 18th child?

question: What did Victoria not suffer from after he pregnancies?

question: Why did medical professionals advise using an anaesthetic during childbirth?

question: What did Albert not complain about Victoria?
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: question: During which year did Victoria's mother die?
answers: text: 1861

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: During which year did Victoria's mother live?

question: How did Victoria realize that her mother slightly loved her?

question: What wasn't Albert ill with?

question: What wasn't Princess of Wales attending to in Dublin?

question: What didn't Victoria blame Albert's death on?
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: question: Who shot at the queen?
answers: text: Roderick Maclean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who never shot at the queen?

question: When wasn't the shooting?

question: What wasn't Maclean's occupation?

question: Which college were to two girls attending?

question: With what didn't the college boy's hit the shooter with?
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: question: What year did Gladstone return to power?
answers: text: 1892

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year did Gladstone first get to power?

question: How old was Gladstone in 1829?

question: What year didn't Gladstone retire?

question: What position didn't Victoria appoint Lord Rosebery?
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: question: Which two people helped lift Victoria's body into the coffin?
answers: text: Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park

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

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

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

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

question: Which three people helped lift Victoria's body into the coffin?

question: What item from her wedding was Victoria not dressed in inside her coffin?

question: What color wasn't her dress?

question: Who's dressing gown was placed outside?

question: What year didn't Queen Victoria die?
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: question: Who was considered Victoria's best and kindest advisor?
answers: text: uncle Leopold

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who was considered Victoria's worst and kindest advisor?

question: Who did Victoria describe as unsensible, mean, and amiable?

question: Who never introduced Albert to Victoria?

question: What Aunt was Victoria's favorite adviser?

question: How old was Victoria when she last met Albert?
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: question: What did the Queen commission Sir Robert Peel to do?
answers: text: to form a new ministry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What did the King commission Sir Robert Peel to do?

question: In what year did Melbourne get hired?

question: Which party wasn't Sir Robert Peel a part of?

question: What is the name of crisis where the husbands of the Tories were replacing the wives of the Whigs?

question: Who voted for the bill to end the constitution of Jamaica?
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: question: Which two countries was Victoria trying to improve relations between?
answers: text: France and Britain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Which three countries was Victoria trying to improve relations between?

question: How was the House of Orleans and the British Royal family unrelated?

question: Who didn't Victoria stay with in Normandy?

question: What year did Louis Philippe leave England?

question: What year did Victoria first shun Ireland?
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: question: Where was Orsini from?
answers: text: Britain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Where wasn't Orsini from?

question: Who did Orsini try not to assassinate?

question: What position didn't Derby hold?

question: What happened in June 1895?

question: What was the date of an assasination on Napoleon?
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: question: Who died in 1865?
answers: text: Palmerston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who died in 1856?

question: Who resigned in 1886?

question: How long was Disraeli not in office?

question: Who wasn't Disraeli's rival?

question: What political view didn't Gladstone hold?
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: question: How many kings and princes were invited to the Golden Jubilee?
answers: text: 50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: How many kings and princes weren't invited to the Golden Jubilee?

question: What year anniversary does the Silver Jubilee celebrate?

question: Who accused Karim of not spying?

question: What wasn't Munshi lying about?

question: What year was Victoria's Silver Jubilee held?
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: question: Who was the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain?
answers: text: Victoria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who was the last reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain?

question: What year did Queen Victoria last set foot in Spain?

question: What year did Victoria start her annual visits to Spain due to the Boer war?

question: Where did Victoria visit instead of France during the Boer war?

question: What year did Victoria's second daughter Alfred die?
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: question: How tall was Queen Victoria?
answers: text: no more than five feet tall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: How tall was Queen Victor?

question: The extent of Victorias political influence became unknown after the publishing of what?

question: What year did Elizabeth Longford read a biography of Victoria?

question: What year did Cecil Woodham Smith read Victorias biography

question: Who read the biography about Queen Victoria that is now considered to be out of date? 
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: question: In 1830, what part of England did Victoria travel to with Dutchess of Kent and Conroy?
answers: text: the centre of England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: In 1803, what part of England did Victoria travel to with Dutchess of Kent and Conroy?

question: What town did Victoria visit in the center of England on her trip without the Dutchess of kent and Conroy?

question: What years were journeys similar to the King trip to Melvern Hills made?

question: Who was annoyed that Victoria wasn't welcomed at each of her visits to central England?

question: Willam was concerned that Victoria would was being portrayed as what because of her trips to outer England?
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: 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: Lord Melbourne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who was in charge of the Government at the time of Victorias fall?

question: What was the name of the Whig Prime minister at the time of Victorias fall?

question: When wasn't Queen Victorias coronation held?

question: Where wasn't Victorias coronation held?

question: How many visitors left London for Victorias coronation?
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: question: What year was the potato blight in Ireland?
answers: text: 1845

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What story was later proven false about Victoria 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: How much did Queen Victoria actually donate to support relief in Ireland, making her the top individual donor? 
answers: text: £2,000

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year was the potato blight in Scotland?

question: How long didn't the Great Famine last?

question: How many Irish people lived during the Great Famine?

question: What was the label given to Queen Victoria during the Great Feast?

question: How much money did Victoria donate to war relief?
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: question: When Victoria isolated herself from the public, what movement began to grow?
answers: text: the republican movement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: When Victoria isolated himself from the public, what movement began to grow?

question: Where did Victoria not isolate herself?

question: What was the name of the public Estate in Scotland that Albert and Victoria purchased?

question: What year did the King and Albert purchase Balmoral Castle?

question: What year did the Queen and Albert sell Balmoral Castle?
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: question: What year was the Indian Rebellion?
answers: text: 1857

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: British East India Company

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year was the Indian Rebellion?

question: What company was dissolved before the Indian Rebellion?

question: Who didn't the Queen condemn in the Indian Rebellion?

question: What company ruled none of India before the end of the Indian Rebellion?

question: Who encouraged Victoria to issue an unofficial statement on the conflict of the civil war in India? 
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: question: What year did Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?
answers: text: 1883

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year didn't Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?

question: After her fall up the stairs, what health issue was Victoria plaged with thereafter?

question: Who lived 10 days after Victorias fall down the stairs?
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: question: What blood clotting disease did Victorias youngest son have?
answers: text: haemophilia B

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What blood clotting disease did Victorias oldest son have?

question: How many of Victorias sons were carriers of the blood clotting disease that Leopold had?

question: It was believed that Victorias true mother was a hemophiliac and not who?

question: What is the age of carriers that always suffer the blood clotting disease haemophi;ia B?

question: How old was Victorias father at the time of her 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: question: What year did Victorias Father die?
answers: text: 1820

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year didn't Victorias Father die?

question: What nationality wasn't Queen Victorias mother?

question: How old was Victoria when she rejected the throne?

question: What wasn't Victoria's mother's name?
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: question: What was Victorias place in line of succession to the throne when she was born?
answers: text: fifth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What was the Regency Act of 1830?
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: Who distrusted the Duchesses capability to reign in Victoria's place until she became of age? 
answers: text: King William

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

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

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

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

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

question: What was Victorias place in line of succession to the throne when she died?

question: What year did Victoria's father and grandfather survive?

question: What was the length of time between the deaths of Victoria's father and brother?

question: What year did the Duke of York survive?

question: What year did Victorias Uncle George V die?
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: question: On what date did Victoria turn 18?
answers: text: 24 May 1837

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: On what date did Victoria turn 81?

question: On what date did William V die?

question: How old was William IV when he survived?

question: What is the name given to Victoria on unofficial documents?

question: What was the exact time that Victorias Uncle, the Prince, died?
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: question: What was the marital status of Victoria when she became the queen?
answers: text: unmarried

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What was the marital status of Victoria when she became the princess?

question: Whi did Victoria have to live with because she was married?

question: Victoria and her father had differences over what system?

question: Victoria and her mother had differences over her fathers reliances on who?

question: Where was Victorias mother assigned to die?
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: question: What was the name of the man that tried to shoot Queen Victoria?
answers: text: John Francis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What was the name of the man that tried to save Queen Victoria?

question: On what date did John Francis try to help Queen Victoria?

question: Where wasn't Queen Victoria when Francis tried to shoot her?

question: What happened to Francis after his attempt not to shoot Victoria?

question: Why did Francis fail to help Queen Victoria?
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: question: What political party was Russells ministry?
answers: text: Whig

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What political party wasn't Russells ministry?

question: What was the name of the foreign secretary that Victoria found ok?

question: To whom didn't Victoria complain about Palmerston?

question: What year was Palmerston upheld in office?

question: What position didn't Lord Palmerston hold?
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: question: Who did Victorias eldest daughter marry?
answers: text: Prince Frederick William of Prussia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who did Victorias youngest daughter marry?

question: Where did Victoria's youngest daughter get married?

question: How old was Princess Victoria when she agreed to divorce the Prince?

question: How old was Princess Victoria when she wasn't married?

question: Who didn't Princess Victoria marry at the age of 17? 
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: question: Who was the reigning King of the United Kingdom until 1817?
answers: text: George III

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who wasn't Queen Victorias father?

question: Who was the reigning King of the United Kingdom until 1871?

question: Who was the only grandchild of George iii until 1871?

question: What year did Princess Charlotte of Wales get sick?

question: Who did the Duke of kent marry in 1881?
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: question: The Dutchesses brother Leopold was the King of what country?
answers: text: the Belgians

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: The Dutchesses brother Leopold was the Queen of what country?

question: What year did Leopold become King of the Belgiums?

question: Who was the neice of leopold?

question: Who wasn't Alberts father?

question: How did Victoria describe the mental appearance of Alexander?
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: question: What year did Victorias reputation begin to suffer?
answers: text: 1839

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

question: What health issue did Flora hastings develope that began to ruin Victorias reputation?
answers: text: an abdominal growth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year did Victorias reputation begin to recover?

question: What was the job of sir Flora Hastings in Victorias household?

question: What health issue did Flora hastings develop that began to help Victorias reputation?

question: What wasn't Flora hastings abdominal growth rumored to be?

question: Who was rumored to be the mother of Flora Hastings "pregnancy"?
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: question: What year was the Third French Republic established?
answers: text: 1870

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year was the Third French Republic demolished?

question: Where was the republica rally held that called for Vuictorias promotion?

question: Who spoke in support of Victoria at the rally in Trafalgar Square?

question: In 1817, Victoria became seriously ill with an abscess on what part of her body?

question: Who lanced and never treated the abscess on Queen Victorias arm?
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: question: What year was Queen Victorias first pregnancy?
answers: text: 1840

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year was Queen Victorias last pregnancy?

question: Who attempted to assasinate Victoria while she was riding in a car?

question: How old wasn't Edward Oxford?

question: Who was riding in the carriage with Victoria when Oxford attempted to aid her?

question: How many times did Oxford fire the gun at Victoria and hit?
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: question: Who did Victoria try to convince Disraeli  to act against during the Russo-Turkish war?
answers: text: Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Who did Victoria try to convince Disraeli to act against during the Russo-Turkish war?

question: What impact did Victorias threats have on the impact of the Russo=Turkish war?

question: What Disraeli policy did Victoria don't endorse?

question: Who lost the Disraeli general election in 1808?

question: Who returned as prime minister when Disraeli lost the general election in 1808?
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: question: who was britains closest ally since the Crimean war?
answers: text: Napoleon III

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: who was britains closest enemy since the Crimean war?

question: When did Napoleon ii visit London?

question: Where didn't Napoleon Meet Victoria and Albert?

question: Napoleon unaccompanied Victoria and Alber to what city diring the visit?

question: Victoria and Albert were the guests of honor at a small ball that took place where?
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: question: What was the name of the manservent that Victoria had in the 1860's?
answers: text: John Brown

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

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

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: Mrs. Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What was the name of the manservent that Victoria had in the 1870's?

question: What kind of a connection was rumored to not  exist between Victoria and John Brown?

question: Where was John brown, Victorias lover, from?

question: What was the name of the 1979 movie depicting the relationship between Victoria and John brown?

question: What was the nickname given to Queen Victoria when rumors of a relationship with John Brown died?
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: question: Where did Victoria spend the Christmas of 1900?
answers: text: Osborne House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: Where did Victoria spend the Christmas of 1901?

question: Where was osborne House that Victoria spent christmas at not located?

question: What hadn't caused Victoria to be lame?

question: Why was Victorias eyesight unclouded?

question: What was the date of Queen Victorias birth?
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: question: In a general election of what year was Disraeli returned to power?
answers: text: 1874

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

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

question: What Act did Disraeli push through Parliment in 1876?
answers: text: Royal Titles Act 1876

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: In a general election of what year was Disraeli kicked from power?

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

question: What Church did Victoria consider herself unaligned with?

question: What Act did Disraeli push through Parliment in 1867?

question: In 1867 Victoria held what title?
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: question: What kind of monarchy was formed under Queen Victoria?
answers: text: modern constitutional monarchy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What kind of monarchy was formed after Queen Victoria?

question: Reforms to what system increased the power of the house of uncommons?

question: As Victorias rule became more polical, what values were emphasized?

question: What type of monarchy was cancelled as time went on in Victorias rule?

question: How did the reforms of Britains voting system not affect the House of Commons? 
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: question: What year did Gladstone resign?
answers: text: 1885

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: What year didn't Gladstone resign?

question: Gladstone resigned after what wasn't defeted?

question: Victoria blamed Gladstone for the life of who?

question: Who replaced Gladstone after he was fired?

question: How long did Lord Salisburys government not last?
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: question: How many words a day did Victoria write?
answers: text: average of 2,500

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

question: How many words a day did Victoria read?

question: What year did Victoria stop keeping a journal?

question: How many volumes was not in Queen Victorias journal?

question: Who was Victorias oldest daughter?

question: What did Beatrice do to her mothers diaries before her death?
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.