Queen Victoria's reign

Queen Victoria is the second-longest reigning monarch in British history. She became queen on 20 June 1837 at the age of 18 and spent six decades on the throne. She ruled until her death on 22 January 1901. What was she like as a queen? Find out here...

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English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

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Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

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Thomas Sully's portrait of Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria on an ivory throne

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The opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). On the evening of Wednesday 10 June 1840 Victoria and Prince Albert were travelling in a carriage along Constitution Hill near Buckingham Palace, London, when Edward Oxford fired a pistol at the Queen

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Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren. Kaiser Wilhelm II is pictured left in the front row. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Lucy Worsley. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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The results of the poll: 100 women who changed the world. (Photos by Getty Images/Alamy)

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