Victoria Victoria , Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , Empress of India and Defender of the Faith , was an influential monarch on Earth in the 19th century , ruling from 1837 to 1901 . Her reign , known as the Victorian era , was marked by tremendous strides in technology and the arts in Britain and elsewhere . Victoria met the Doctor at least twice ; she met him during her coronation ceremony in 1838 , and in 1879 she experienced an adventure with the Tenth Doctor . The latter led to her effectively banishing the Doctor from her country and forming the Torchwood Institute as the British Empire ' s defence against the dark forces with which the Doctor seemed to consort . Biography . The Third Doctor claimed to have attended Queen Victoria ' s coronation in 1838 . ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " ) In 1863 , the Fifth Doctor was temporarily appointed Queen Victoria ' s scientific advisor while investigating a recently - discovered rift that appeared to lead to the afterlife ; in fact , it actually led to another dimension which shaped itself according to the wishes of the inhabitants . ( PROSE : " Empire of Death " ) Queen Victoria ' s late husband Prince Albert had known Sir George MacLeish , the owner of Torchwood House . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) In 1878 , Queen Victoria oversaw the " Cygnus " , the " Draco " and the " Lynx " , which were launched to the Moon . This resulted in the alien life - forms known as the Vrall being unleashed on Earth . The Fifth Doctor had his companion Kamelion pose as a vision of Albert to convince Victoria to abandon space travel . ( PROSE : " Imperial Moon " ) In the summer of 1879 , Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee . Count Otto Von Harnstein presented her with the Giant ' s Heart which was housed in the Tower of London until it could be set into her crown . The Giant ' s Heart was taken by the Doctor and replaced with a similar looking diamond from the Mines of Horno Ciego . The Doctor believed Queen Victoria would not notice the difference . ( PROSE : " The Giant ' s Heart " ) Later that same year , Queen Victoria met the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler , and saw on the former ' s psychic paper that he had been assigned as her protector . They stayed the night at Torchwood House , where Father Angelo and the Brethren , who stopped her train so that she would come there , unleashed an alien werewolf on her , their intention being to take over the throne and create the Empire of the Wolf , and guarded the house from outside to prevent escape . The Queen killed Angelo with a pistol , though claimed that Captain Reynolds did so when asked about it . Though the werewolf killed almost everyone in the house , the Doctor and Rose used a light chamber created by the late Prince Albert and George MacLeish , powered by moonlight to kill it , before it could kill them or the Queen . The Queen knighted both Rose Tyler and the Tenth Doctor for saving her , before having an abrupt change of heart and banished the Doctor from the British Empire , never to return ; she found it worrying how much fun they found in a life of terror and blasphemy , and wanted nothing more to do with it , ordering them to leave her world and never return . Shortly after , she founded the Torchwood Institute , taking the name from the estate where she encountered the Doctor . Despite his having saved her life , Victoria had the Doctor listed as " an enemy of the Crown " in Torchwood ' s original charter , ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) as related by Yvonne Hartman . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) The Queen seemed very guarded about a bite the werewolf may have given her , leading Rose and the Doctor to jokingly speculate that the werewolf curse was subsequently passed down through the royal line . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) Four years later , in 1883 , the being calling itself Josiah Samuel Smith trained the deranged Redvers Fenn - Cooper as an assassin to kill the Queen . Cooper had an invitation to visit Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen , so Smith saw him as the perfect assassin to kill her , which would enable Smith to take over the throne . Fenn - Cooper believed the monarch to be a wild animal called the " Crowned Saxe - Coburg " . ( TV : " Ghost Light " ) In 1889 , Li H ' sen Chang was scheduled to perform for Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace but he was killed one month earlier . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) In the 49th century , refugees who had escaped from a dying world projected their consciousnesses through time and made contact with a spiritualist named Mrs Vanguard in the 1890s , passing themselves off as ghost s . They planned to transfer their consciousnesses into the bodies of influential people in 1890s London with their ultimate goal to take control of Queen Victoria . From the historical records , they were aware that she was still in mourning for her long deceased husband Prince Albert . The refugee possessing the body of Henry Gordon Jago mentioned that , in decades to come , there would be " brutal , terrible wars which will determine the fate of this planet . " With one of their kind possessing Queen Victoria ' s body , they intended to " turn the tides of history " and create a new future , thereby preventing the destruction of their world . Their plan was defeated by Jago , Professor George Litefoot , Ellie Higson and Toby . ( AUDIO : " The Spirit Trap " ) She once attended a play at the New Regency Theatre , which was a source of great pride to Jago , its owner and proprietor . ( AUDIO : " The Theatre of Dreams " ) She was saved from Jack the Ripper by Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot , and gave them a royal pardon . ( AUDIO : " The Wax Princess " ) She did not support women ' s suffrage . She once stated , " Let women be what God intended : a helpmate for man . " ( AUDIO : " The Suffering " ) On 17 May 1899 , Queen Victoria visited Torchwood One ' s base at the National History Museum in London for an annual inspection when an alien creature which fed on youth escaped and started attacking people . Despite her advanced age , the Queen took to pursuing the creature alongside Jack Harkness , she would infact realise that its weakness was the elderly who lacked youth . She initially considered using the creature to prolong her own life abundantly due to her lack of faith in her future successors to oversee Torchwood . Ultimately , however , she relented and stopped the creature by rallying elderly Londoners to surround it , granting them all minutely prolonged lives while the creature was reduced to dust . Following this adventure , Victoria decided to allow the Torchwood Institute to continue operating as well opting to retire from the public view . ( AUDIO : " The Victorian Age " ) Towards the end of her life , Queen Victoria met Agnes Havisham before she was cryogenically preserved to act as Torchwood ' s Assessor . ( PROSE : " Risk Assessment " ) Legacy . Victoria was succeeded as the British monarch by her son Edward VII . ( TV : " Inferno " ) Knowledge of the Doctor passed down from one generation to another in the Royal Family following the incident with the werewolf and exile by Queen Victoria , being remembered as far as the 33rd century by Elizabeth X of " Starship UK " . ( TV : " The Beast Below " ) Even 100 years after her death , the phrase " We are not amused " was still often linked to Queen Victoria ; this led to Rose Tyler , who met her in 1879 , making a wager with the Doctor that she could make her say it . ( TV : Tooth and Claw ) Following her encounter with the werewolf , Queen Victoria founded Torchwood ; Torchwood still existed even in the 42nd century . ( TV : " The Satan Pit " ) Minor references . Upon visiting Venus in the far future , Henry Gordon Jago suggested claiming the planet for Queen Victoria and the British Empire . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) When the Fourth Doctor mentioned the dress Sarah Jane Smith was wearing was also worn by the Doctor ' s former travelling companion Victoria , Sarah , referencing Queen Victoria ' s husband , quipped " Well , I hope Albert didn ' t wear it . " ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) There was a statue of Queen Victoria in the garden of Harrison Chase ' s mansion . ( TV : " The Seeds of Doom " ) When they travelled to Mars , British soldiers took a painting of her to the red planet , putting it on display while they mined the area . They later marked it as her territory by writing " God save the Queen " on the surface with rocks with the Twelfth Doctor and Bill ' s help . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " )