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Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors —constituted the Victorian era .
Victoria, the Princess Royal and first child of Victoria and Albert (21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901), known as "Vicky", was not only the mother to their first grandchild, Wilhelm II; she was also the first of Victoria and Albert's children to become a grandparent, with the birth in 1879 of Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, who was the ...
The double florin was introduced as part of a coinage redesign that took place in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. One purpose of the redesign was to replace portraits of the queen which had changed little since her youth, and which no longer resembled the monarch, who was nearing her seventieth birthday.
The British florin, or two-shilling piece (2/– or 2s.), was a coin worth 1 ⁄ 10 of one pound, or 24 pence.It was issued from 1849 until 1967, with a final issue for collectors dated 1970.
The non-British royal most closely related to Queen Elizabeth, Harald V is also a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria and is actually descended from the same branch of the family as Elizabeth II.
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein 1885–1970: Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale 1864–1892: King George V 1865–1936 r. 1910–1936: Mary of Teck 1867–1953: Louise, Princess Royal 1867–1931: Alexander Duff 1st Duke of Fife 1849–1912: Princess Victoria 1868–1935: Maud of Wales 1869–1938: Haakon VII ...
Between 2007 and 2022, a drawing of Queen Victoria from 1869, a mid-19th Century engraving of King John granting the Magna Carta, a bronze sculpture of painter Thomas Stothard and a 1947 negative ...
The 1873 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen, and were published in The London Gazette on 24 May 1873.