Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

The queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. She also adopted the title of Empress of India in 1876. Her reign of 63 years and 7 months, known as the Victorian era, was one of the longest of any British monarch and marked a period of vast industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and the expansion of the British Empire. Here’s her full story: