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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".

Question: Who died in 1865?
Answer: Palmerston

Question: Who resigned in 1868?
Answer: Derby

Question: How long was Disraeli in office?
Answer: matter of months

Question: Who was Disraeli's rival?
Answer: William Ewart Gladstone

Question: What political view did Gladstone hold?
Answer: Liberal

Question: What year did Palmerston die?
Answer: 1865

Question: Who let the ministry for a very short time after the death of Palmerston?
Answer: Russell

Question: Who returned to power after Russels brief rule of the ministry?
Answer: Derby

Question: Following Alberts death, what was the first year that Victoria attended the State opening of Parliment?
Answer: 1866

Question: Who replaced Derby after his resignation?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What year did Pamerston die? 
Answer: 1865

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

Question: What Act by Victoria granted the ability to vote to working men, but not women? 
Answer: Reform Act 1867

Question: Who replaced Derby when he resigned in 1868? 
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What Liberal replaced Disraeli after only a few short months in office? 
Answer: William Ewart Gladstone

Question: When did Palmerston die?
Answer: 1865

Question: Who was ultimately returned to office after Palmerston's death?
Answer: Derby

Question: When did Derby resign?
Answer: 1868

Question: Who was Derby's replacement?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: How long did Disralei last in office?
Answer: only lasted a matter of months
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.

Question: How many kings and princes were invited to the Golden Jubilee?
Answer: 50

Question: What year anniversary does the Golden Jubilee celebrate?
Answer: fiftieth anniversary

Question: Who accused Karim of spying?
Answer: Her family and retainers

Question: What was Munshi lying about?
Answer: his parentage

Question: What year was Victoria's Golden Jubilee held?
Answer: 1887

Question: Who did Ponsonby report the Munshis lies about his parentage to?
Answer: Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India

Question: What was the name of the waited that was promoted to Munshi?
Answer: Abdul Karim

Question: Whio was Equerry Frederick Ponsonby's father?
Answer: Sir Henry

Question: Who discovered that Victoria's new Munshi lied about his parentage?
Answer: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby

Question: When was Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee? 
Answer: 1887

Question: What was Abdul Karim teaching Queen Victoria after his promotion? 
Answer: Hindustani

Question: Who was Karim accused of spying for by Victoria's family? 
Answer: Muslim Patriotic League

Question: Who discovered that Karim had lied about his parentage to Victoria? 
Answer: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby

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

Question: When was Victoria's Golden Jubilee?
Answer: 1887

Question: What is the point of the Golden Jubilee?
Answer: the fiftieth anniversary of her accession

Question: Who was promoted from waiter to Munshi?
Answer: Abdul Karim

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

Question: How long was Karim in the Queen's employment?
Answer: until he returned to India with a pension on her death
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."

Question: Who was the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain?
Answer: Victoria

Question: What year did Queen Victoria first set foot in Spain?
Answer: 1889

Question: What year did Victoria stop her annual visits to Spain due to the Boer war?
Answer: 1900

Question: Where did Victoria visit instead of Spain during the Boer war?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What year did Victoria's second son Alfred die?
Answer: 1900

Question: Where did Victoria stay in Spain in 1889? 
Answer: Biarritz

Question: What war prevented Queen Victoria from taking her annual trip to France in 1900?
Answer: Boer War

Question: What country did Victoria visit instead of France during the Boer War? 
Answer: Ireland

Question: Which of Queen Victoria's children died in July of that year? 
Answer: her second son Alfred

Question: Where did Victoria often go for holiday?
Answer: mainland Europe

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

Question: Why did Victoria visit Ireland in 1861?
Answer: acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war

Question: Why was Victoria advised not to visit France in April of 1900?
Answer: the Boer War

Question: What tragedy did Victoria face in July of 1900?
Answer: her second son Alfred ("Affie") died
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.

Question: How tall was Queen Victoria?
Answer: no more than five feet tall

Question: The extent of Victorias political influence became well known after the publishing of what?
Answer: her diary and letters

Question: What year did Elizabeth Longford write a biography of Victoria?
Answer: 1964

Question: What year did Cecil Woodham Smith writ Victorias biography?
Answer: 1972

Question: How tall was Queen Victoria? 
Answer: five feet

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

Question: What woman wrote a biography of Queen Victoria in 1964?
Answer: Elizabeth Longford

Question: When did Celcil Woodham-Smith also write a well recieved biography about Victoria? 
Answer: 1972

Question: What was Victoria like, physically?
Answer: stout, dowdy and no more than five feet tall

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

Question: Who were two good biographers of Queen Victoria?
Answer: Elizabeth Longford and Cecil Woodham-Smith

Question: When were the best biographies of Queen Victoria written?
Answer: 1964 and 1972

Question: What kind of person was Victoria?
Answer: emotional, obstinate, honest, and straight-talking
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.

Question: In 1830, what part of England did Victoria travel to with Dutchess of Kent and Conroy?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Malvern Hills

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

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

Question: Who was annoyed that Victoria was welcomed at each of her visits to central England?
Answer: William

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

Question: Where did Victoria become seriously ill during one of her trips? 
Answer: Ramsgate

Question: Who did Victoria dislike so much she banned him from her presence once she became Queen? 
Answer: Conroy

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

Question: Who took Victoria on a trip to Malvern Hills in 1830?
Answer: the Duchess of Kent and Conroy

Question: Who was Victoria convinced to make her secretery when she was very ill?
Answer: Conroy

Question: How did Victoria feel about all of the trips?
Answer: disliked

Question: What annoyed the King about the way Victoria was received at her stops?
Answer: enthusiastically welcomed in each

Question: Why did the King dislike Victoria taking the trips?
Answer: concerned that they portrayed Victoria as his rival

Question: When she was made Queen, what did Victoria do about Conroy?
Answer: banned him from her presence
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.

Question: Who was in charge of the Governemnt at the time of Victorias ascession?
Answer: Lord Melbourne

Question: What was the name of the Whig Prime minister at the time of Victorias ascession?
Answer: Lord Melbourne

Question: When was Queen Victorias coronation held?
Answer: 28 June 1838

Question: Where was Victorias coronation held?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: How many visitors came to London for Victorias coronation?
Answer: Over 400,000

Question: When did Victoria's coronation take place at Westminster Abbey?
Answer: 28 June 1838

Question: Who thought that Melbourne saw Victoria as if she was his daughter? 
Answer: Charles Greville

Question: How many people visited London for the Coronation of Queen Victoria? 
Answer: 400,000

Question: What was Victoria's allowance upon becoming Queen? 
Answer: £385,000 per year

Question: What Whig was prime minister during Victoria's accession? 
Answer: Lord Melbourne

Question: Who was leading the government at the time of Victoria's accension?
Answer: Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne

Question: What kind of influence was Melbourne to Victoria?
Answer: powerful

Question: When was Victoria's coronation?
Answer: 28 June 1838

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

Question: Where did Queen Victoria reside?
Answer: Buckingham Palace
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.

Question: What year was the potato blight in Ireland?
Answer: 1845

Question: How much money did Victoria donate to famine relief?
Answer: £2,000

Question: How long did the Great Famine last?
Answer: four years

Question: How many Irish people died during the Great Famine?
Answer: over a million

Question: What was the label given to Queen Victoria during the Great Famine?
Answer: The Famine Queen

Question: What crisis struck Ireland during 1845?
Answer: potato blight

Question: How many people died during the Great Famine in Ireland?
Answer: over a million

Question: What was Queen Victoria called in Ireland during the Great Famine? 
Answer: The Famine Queen

Question: What story was later proven false about Victoria during the Great Famine? 
Answer: 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? 
Answer: £2,000

Question: What happened that decimated a large portion of Ireland?
Answer: potato blight

Question: When did the potato blight begin?
Answer: 1845

Question: How many people did Ireland lose to the potato blight?
Answer: a million

Question: What did the potato blight cause Victoria to be called?
Answer: The Famine Queen

Question: How much did Victoria donate to Ireland to help with famine relief?
Answer: £2,000
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.

Question: When Victoria isolated herself from the public, what movement began to grow?
Answer: the republican movement

Question: Where did Victoria isolate herself?
Answer: in her royal residences

Question: What was the name of the private Estate in Scotland that Albert and Victoria purchased?
Answer: Balmoral Castle

Question: What year did the Queen and Albert purchase Balmoral Castle?
Answer: 1847

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

Question: What private estate did Victoria aquire with Albert in 1847?
Answer: Balmoral Castle

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

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

Question: What movement gained popularity due to the lack of Victoria appearing in public? 
Answer: republican movement

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

Question: What did Victoria's isolation give way to?
Answer: the growth of the republican movement

Question: Who advised Vicotria to begin appaering in public?
Answer: Her uncle Leopold

Question: Where did Victoria visit to become more in the public view?
Answer: Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington

Question: What else did Victoria do to try to return her former public image?
Answer: take a drive through London in an open carriage
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.

Question: What year was the Indian Rebellion?
Answer: 1857

Question: What company was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion?
Answer: British East India Company

Question: What company ruled much of India before the end of the Indian Rebellion?
Answer: British East India Company

Question: Who did the Queen condemn in the Indian Rebellion?
Answer: both sides

Question: What ruler was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion in 1857?
Answer: British East India Company

Question: Who encouraged Victoria to issue an official statement on the conflict of the civil war in India? 
Answer: Albert

Question: What happened to the British possesions after the Rebellion of 1857? 
Answer: were formally incorporated into the British Empire

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

Question: Before 1857, who controlled most of India?
Answer: British East India Company

Question: What caused the British East India Company to lose control of India?
Answer: the Indian Rebellion of 1857

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

Question: How did the Queen view the Indian Rebellion?
Answer: 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?
Answer: "should breathe feelings of generosity, benevolence and religious toleration"
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.

Question: What year did Victoria fall down the stairs at Windsor?
Answer: 1883

Question: After her fall down the stairs, what health issue was Victoria plaged with thereafter?
Answer: rheumatism thereafter

Question: Who died 10 days after Victorias fall down the stairs?
Answer: Brown

Question: How was Victoria notified of her youngest son leopolds death?
Answer: by telegram

Question: Who was Victorias private secretary during the years following her accident at Windsor?
Answer: Sir Henry Ponsonby

Question: When was Queen Victoria get injured after taking a fall down some stairs? 
Answer: 17 March 1883

Question: Who did Queen Victoria write a biography about that was never published? 
Answer: John Brown

Question: Where did Victoria's youngest son, Leopold die? 
Answer: Cannes

Question: Victoria initially opposed Beatrice's marriage to what man? 
Answer: Prince Henry of Battenberg

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

Question: What caused Victoria's rheumatism?
Answer: she fell down some stairs at Windsor

Question: Who died 10 days after Victoria's accident?
Answer: Brown

Question: What did Victoria begin working on after Brown's death?
Answer: a eulogistic biography

Question: Who was opposed to Victoria writing a biography of Brown?
Answer: Sir Henry Ponsonby

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

Question: What blood clotting disease did Victorias youngest son have?
Answer: haemophilia B

Question: How many of Victorias daughters were carriers of the blood clotting disease that Leopold had?
Answer: two

Question: It was believed that Victorias true father was a hemophiliac and not who?
Answer: the Duke of Kent

Question: What is the sex of carriers that always suffer the blood clotting disease haemophi;ia B?
Answer: male

Question: How old was Victorias father at the time of her conception?
Answer: over 50

Question: What disease did Victoria's youngest son have? 
Answer: the blood-clotting disease haemophilia B

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

Question: Who was Queen Victoria's father rumored to be instead of the Duke of Kent?
Answer: a haemophiliac

Question: What disease affected Leopold and was carried by two of Victoria's daughters?
Answer: haemophilia B

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

Question: Which of Victoria's daughters were carriers of haemophilia?
Answer: Alice and Beatrice

Question: What is a big factor on whether or not an offspring will spontaneously develop haemophilia?
Answer: older fathers

Question: In how many births do spontaneous cases of haemophilia arise?
Answer: about a third of cases
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.

Question: Who was Queen Victorias father?
Answer: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III

Question: What year did Victorias Father die?
Answer: 1820

Question: How old was Victoria when she inherited the throne?
Answer: 18

Question: What year did King George III die?
Answer: 1820

Question: What nationality was Queen Victorias mother?
Answer: German

Question: What was the name of Victoria's father? 
Answer: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Question: When did the Duke of Kent die? 
Answer: 1820

Question: What was Victoria's mother's name?
Answer: 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?
Answer: 18

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

Question: Who raised Victoria?
Answer: mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Question: When did Victoria inherit the throne of England?
Answer: aged 18

Question: Why did Victoria inherit the throne?
Answer: 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?
Answer: constitutional monarchy
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.

Question: What was Victorias place in line of succession to the throne when she was born?
Answer: fifth

Question: What year did Victoria's father and grandfather die?
Answer: 1820

Question: What year did Victorias Uncle George IV die?
Answer: 1830

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

Question: What year did the Duke of York die?
Answer: 1827

Question: What place was Victoria in the line of succession after her birth? 
Answer: fifth

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

Question: When did George IV die? 
Answer: 1830

Question: What was the Regency Act of 1830?
Answer: 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? 
Answer: King William

Question: Where did Victoria fall in the line of succession?
Answer: fifth

Question: Who came in line for the throne before Victoria?
Answer: her father and his three older brothers

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

Question: Who was Victoria's last surviving uncle?
Answer: William IV

Question: Who was to act as regent if George died while Victoria was still a minor?
Answer: Duchess of Kent
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.

Question: On what date did Victoria turn 18?
Answer: 24 May 1837

Question: On what date did William IV die?
Answer: 20 June 1837

Question: How old was William IV when he died?
Answer: 71

Question: What was the exact time that Victorias Uncle, the King, died?
Answer: 12 minutes past 2

Question: What is the name given to Victoria on official documents?
Answer: Alexandrina Victoria

Question: When did Victoria turn 18?
Answer: 24 May 1837

Question: When did Victoria become Queen upon William IV's death? 
Answer: 20 June 1837

Question: What name was Victoria referred to as on only the first day of her reign?
Answer: Alexandrina Victoria

Question: How old was Victoria's Uncle, King Willaim on his death? 
Answer: 71

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

Question: What caused Victoria to become the Queen of the United Kingdom?
Answer: 20 June 1837, William IV died

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

Question: What name did the first official documents of Victoria's monarchy have her listed as?
Answer: Alexandrina Victoria

Question: How old was William IV when he died?
Answer: 71

Question: Where did she receive the news that she was to be queen?
Answer: sitting-room
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.

Question: What was the marital status of Victoria when she became the queen?
Answer: unmarried

Question: Whi did Victoria have to live with because she was unmarried?
Answer: her mother

Question: Victoria and her mother had differences over what system?
Answer: Kensington System

Question: Victoria and her mother had differences over her mothers reliances on who?
Answer: Conroy

Question: Where was Victorias mother assigned to live?
Answer: a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace

Question: What did Victoria and her mother disagree on? 
Answer: the Kensington System

Question: Whom did Victoria's mother continue to rely on, despite Victoria's displeasure? 
Answer: Conroy

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

Question: Where did both Queen Victoria and her mother reside after she became Queen? 
Answer: Buckingham Palace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question: Who did William IV feel was a suitable husband for Victoria?
Answer: Prince Alexander of the Netherlands