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When was she born?
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24 May 1819
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Where was she born?
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Kensington Palace, London
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Who was her father?
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Edward, Duke of Kent
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Who was her mother?
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Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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Who was her paternal grandfather?
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George III
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What house was she born into?
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Hanover
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What was her first name, which she dropped when becoming queen?
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Alexandrina
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When did her father die?
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23 January 1820
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What Act of Parliament allowed Victoria's mother to regent in case her Uncle died before she was of age, in 1830?
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Regency Act
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How many languages did she learn how to speak, including ones she learnt later in life?
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6 (English, German, French, Italian, Latin and Urdu)
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How old was she when she wrote 'The Adventures of Alice Laselles', which was eventually published in 2015?
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ten years old
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Who wanted to become Victoria's private secretary, during her teenage year, but once she became queen banned him for her presence?
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John Conroy
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What king did Victoria consider her "best and kindest adviser", who was also her uncle?
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Leopold I of Belgium
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When did her predecessor, William IV, die?
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20 June 1837
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What kingdom did Victoria not inherit because women were excluded from its succession, Britain and this kingdom shared a monarch since 1714 before this?
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Kingdom of Hanover
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Who was the king of above, who became Victoria's heir until she had children?
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Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
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Who was Victoria's first prime-minister, who she probably saw as a father figure?
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Henry William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne
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When did her coronation take place?
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28 June 1838
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What palace did Victoria become the first sovereign to take up residence of?
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Buckingham Palace
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Who was one of her mothers lady-in-waiting, who Victoria accused of being pregnant out-of-wedlock by the man who tried to be Victoria's private secretary, but after her death turned out to be a tumour on her liver?
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Lady Flora Hastings
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What was the name of the crisis, in 1939, where the new prime minister wanted to replace the Royal chambers with Tory wives instead of the Whigs?
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"bedchamber crisis"
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When did the queen propose to her future husband?
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15 October 1839
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Who was her husband?
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Where was the Royal couple married in?
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Chapel Royal of St James' Palace, London
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Who was the first man to attempt to assassinate Victoria, in 1840?
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Edward Oxford
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How many assassination attempts did Victoria experience in total?
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8
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Who was her first daughter, born on 21 November 1840?
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Victoria
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Who was her first son, born on 9 November 1841?
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Albert Edward (Edward VII)
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How many children did Victoria have in total?
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9
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What was the crop of the Great famine in 1845 that killed millions of Irish people, this resulted in 1847 Victoria to donat more than any other donor to help?
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potato
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How many people became prime ministers during Victoria's reign, serving a total of 21 terms?
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10
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In 1843 and 1845, Victoria was the first English monarch to visit a French monarch since who, on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520?
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Henry VIII
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What French monarch did Victoria visit in the meetings above, who was deposed in 1848 and exiled to England?
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Louis Philippe I
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In 1853, what new anaesthetic was given to Victoria for her second to last pregnancy and also used it again for her last in 1857?
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chloroform
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What war was fought against the Russians in 1853-1856, with the alliance of Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont?
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Crimean War
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When Napoleon III invited Victoria and her husband to Paris in April 1855, what year did the last English Monarch, Henry VI, be in Paris?
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1431
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What British company was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the territory then formally became apart of the British Empire?
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East India Company (EIC)
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Who did Victoria's eldest daughter marry, who reigned Germany for 99 days until his death?
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Frederick William of Prussia (Frederick III)
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When did Victoria's mother die?
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16 March 1861
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When did Victoria's husband die?
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14 December 1861
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Following the death of her husband, what colour did she wear for the rest of her life?
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black
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In August 1871, while seriously ill with an abscess on her arm, what antiseptic did Joseph Lister create and treat Victoria with>
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carbolic acid
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What Prime Minister pushed the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, which gave Victoria the title "Empress of India" in 1877, some consider Victoria's favourite PM?
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Benjamin Disraeli
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What Prime-minister succeeded above and Victoria considered his government "the worst I have ever had"?
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William Gladstone
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Who was Victoria's first great-grandchild born on 12 May 1879?
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Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
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Who taught Victoria Urdu after being promoted to "Munshi"?
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Abdul Karim
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Who was her grand-child who became king of Germany after her son died in 1888?
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Wilhelm II
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When did Victoria die?
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22 January 1901
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Who succeeded her?
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her eldest son, Edward
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