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Queen_Victoria

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.

Question: Where was Orsini from?
Answer: Britain

Question: Who did Orsini try to assassinate?
Answer: Napoleon III

Question: What happened in June 1859?
Answer: Victoria recalled Palmerston to office

Question: What position did Derby hold?
Answer: prime minister

Question: What was the date of an attempted assasination on Napoleon?
Answer: 14 January 1858

Question: What was the name of the person that attempted to assasinate Napoleon?
Answer: Orsini

Question: What was the name of the French military port that opened on 5 August 1858?
Answer: port of Cherbourg

Question: Where was the bomb that Orsini used to attempt to assasinate Napoleon made?
Answer: England

Question: Who resigned due to the attempt on Napoleons life?
Answer: Palmerston

Question: Who survived an assasination attempt by the Italian refugee Orsini in 1858?
Answer: Napoleon III

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

Question: What new military port in France did Victoria and Albert visit after the crisis in 1858?
Answer: Cherbourg

Question: Why did Victoria repremend Derby following her visit with Napolean III? 
Answer: 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? 
Answer: Palmerston

Question: Who attempted to assassinate Napoleon?
Answer: an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini

Question: When did Orsinin attempt to assassinate Napoleon?
Answer: 14 January 1858

Question: How did Orsini try to assassinate Napoleon?
Answer: a bomb

Question: When did Victoria ask Palmerston to resume his office?
Answer: June 1859

Question: Where did Victoria visit that led her to reprimand Derby for the state of the Royal Navy?
Answer: French military port of Cherbourg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"