QUEEN VICTORIA & THE VICTORIAN ERA

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QUESTIONS

1. a) When was Queen Victoria born?
   b) In which palace was she born?
2. What sort of childhood did she have?
3. a) When was she crowned Queen of England?
   b) How old was she?
   c) Where did the ceremony take place?
4. What promise did the coronation of Victoria bring to the English people?
5. What happened to the following cities: London, Manchester, and Birmingham?
6. What new means of transport were able to transport passengers at a speed of 33 miles/hour?
7. a) Who was her “great adviser”?
   b) Who was he?
   c) What was Victoria’s opinion about him?  
8. What “political event” showed Victoria’s strong personality? Explain in your own words.
9. Victoria was eager to marry and have babies: right or wrong?
10. What was the name of her husband?
11. When did they first meet?
12. What was her first opinion of him?
13. When did they get married?
14. How many children did they have?
15. a) Because he was not King of England but was still very influential in terms of politics, a “title” was coined⁴ specifically for the Monarch’s husband. Which one?
    b) What role did this position acknowledge?  
16. What was the queen’s husband fascinated by?
17. a) What event took place in 1851?
    b) What was it supposed to celebrate? “All that was ……………………………”
    c) To host it, the prince had a project: he imagined a building called “………”
    d) How many exhibits were on display?
    e) How many visitors came to visit it?
18. a) Which other place did the prince imagine (for his family)?
    b) When did they buy it?
    c) What about the style?
    d) Complete: “everything about it was designed to ……………………….”.
    e) What was it made for?
    f) What did they celebrate there (among other things)?
19. What tragic event occurred in 1861?  
20. How did the Queen try to preserve her husband’s image? (3 elements)
21. In the end, how did she mourn her loss? (3 elements)
22. a) How long did her grief last?
    b) How did her subjects react?
    c) How did the press react?
    d) However, what did the Queen refuse to do?
    e) Who did she blame for her husband’s death? Why (explain)?
23. The Queen was so absent from public life that
    a) Buckingham Palace started to look like an ………..;
    b) some posters were plastered on Buckingham Palace saying “……………”
24. What did Benjamin Disraeli suggest the Queen do in 1876 to cheer her up?
25. a) What did Victoria celebrate in 1877?  
    b) What did she finally symbolise?
26. Which family (in which country) did her daughter (and granddaughter) become part of?
27. a) When did Victoria die (this date marked the end of the Victorian era)?
    b) How old was she?
    c) Queen Victoria was regretted and missed: right or wrong?
28. Victoria’s real (first) name was ………… 
29. What was the “Kensington System?”
30. Victoria could also speak …… fluently.
31. What disease did Victoria suffer from (as well as some of her descendants) which became known as the “Royal disease”?
32. Victoria’s personality: “Victoria was renowned for her __________ and ___________.”
33. Which custom did Queen Victoria and her husband popularize in 1848 (with an image of the royal family that inspired many other British families (to do the same))?
34. Where can you see the statue of the queen in her coronation robes?
35. She is the ……-longest reigning British monarch (after …..).
36. What did the queen give her name to (places)?