she was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britan and irland from june 20 1876 until she died.

Intil the year 1820 all of her family was dead beside her German- born mother princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld.  Her father died when she only when she was eight months old. When she was 18 she inherited the throne, after all off her father’s three older brothers had died.

Victoria continued in her duties up to her death. In keeping with tradition, she spent Christmas 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, where her health quickly declined to the point that she was unable to return to London. She died on January 22, 1901, at age 81. Her son and successor King Edward VII and her eldest grandson Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany were both at her bedside.

After her husband died and she plunged into deep mourning and aviding public appearances.  But 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. Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover. Her son and successor, Edward VII, belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the line of his father.