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70 unusual facts about Queen Victoria


5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers F.C.

Ultimately eleven Companies were raised throughout Galloway and their services accepted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

A Pele do Ogro

In his travels across the European continent, André established friendly relations with historical figures like Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Queen Victoria and others, who talk about Lydia and their wealth, power, beauty and youth .

Alfred McCune Home

After being voted patron of the organization, Elizabeth was entertained by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

Arthur Macnamara

Sophia's father, a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, was able to secure his daughter a position as a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen's daughter, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll.

Australian Gas Light Company

The lights were turned on in 24 May 1841 to celebrate the birthday of Queen Victoria.

Banksia victoriae

He named it in honour of Queen Victoria; thus the full name for the species is Banksia victoriae Meisn.

Bedford, Pennsylvania

While Buchanan was there the first trans-Atlantic cable message was sent to his room from Queen Victoria on August 17, 1858.

Breckinridge County, Kentucky

During the nineteenth century, the Victoria Coal mines, named in honor of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, were the first to produce coal oil, and Cloverport exported coal oil to Great Britain, where it was used to light Buckingham Palace.

Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts

The Guild's most famous works on public display are the main gates of Buckingham Palace and the Canada Gate both part of Sir Aston Webb's memorial scheme to Queen Victoria.

Brunswick stew

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in her Cross Creek Cookery (1942), wrote that the stew, said to have been one of Queen Victoria's favorites, may have come from the original Brunswick: Braunschweig, Germany.

Bullet catch

Anderson, or The Great Wizard of the North as he was called, performed for P.T. Barnum, Czar Nicholas, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert and toured in the United States and Australia, thus bringing the bullet catch into mainstream magic illusions.

Burmese glass

Burmese glass found favor with Queen Victoria, and from 1886, the British company of Thomas Webb & Sons was licensed to produce their own version known as Queen's Burmeseware, which was used for tableware and decorative glass, often with painted decoration.

Central line

The line opened in 1900 and was the last line to be built during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Charles Warner

He first appeared in 1861 at a special performances of Richelieu before Queen Victoria.

Charlotte Square

The memorial in the centre of the garden commemorates Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, and features an equestrian statue of the prince, in field marshal's uniform, by Sir John Steell.

Chute-Saint-Philippe, Quebec

The settlement initially had the name Chute-Leon at the beginning of the 20th century, in memory of Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), and was called Victoria Falls by 1903, in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Clivia nobilis

Charlotte Percy (née Clive), Duchess of Northumberland (1787–1866), governess of Queen Victoria, was the first to cultivate the plant in the United Kingdom and bring it to flower.

Duvelleroy

After the production of a fan representing the Royal Family of England, based on a painting by Winterhalter, Duvelleroy was appointed supplier to Queen Victoria, and opened a boutique in London.

Edward Chandos Leigh

Leigh's cricketing career and first class stats might be considered average but he was a popular choice as President of the MCC in its first centenary year in 1887 and the Golden Jubilee year of Queen Victoria.

Edward Webb and Sons

By the 1890s Webb and Sons had been appointed seedsmen to Queen Victoria, and had become a household name around the UK.

Fisher Park Public School

The park was first called "West End Park" but later renamed Victoria Park in honour of Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1897.

Flag of Quebec

On May 26, 1868, Queen Victoria approved Quebec's first coat of arms.

George Clement Martin

He was a composer, mostly of church music, which included a Te Deum in A, performed at the Thanksgiving Service held on the steps of the Cathedral in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year.

Gloucestershire Victoria County History

It forms part of the overall Victoria County History of England founded in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria.

Gunvalkyrie

With these technologies the British Empire quickly conquers the Earth, and he is regarded as a god by everyone on Earth, even to the point where when he speaks out against Queen Victoria she is overthrown and he is chosen to lead.

Győri Keksz

In addition to these, in 1912, the company bought the licence of the Albert keksz (Albert biscuit – probably named after the husband of Queen Victoria) from the British T&T Vicars Company.

Harrow train accident 1838

The first part of the London to Birmingham Railway opened between Euston Station and Hemel Hempstead on 20 July 1837, and then on to Bletchley in time for Queen Victoria's coronation on 28 June 1838.

Helford River

A little further up river is Tremayne Quay, built for a visit by Queen Victoria in the 1840s which she then declined to make-—allegedly because it was raining.

Herbert Taylor Reade

After his military service, he served as a surgeon to Queen Victoria.

High Tory

By the reign of Queen Victoria High Tories supported the empire and were personified by the Prime Ministers Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury.

Historical romance

These novels are set between 1832 and 1901 England, beginning with the Reform Act 1832 and including the reign of Queen Victoria.

History of Regina, Saskatchewan

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, wife of the Duke of Argyll, who was then the Governor General of Canada, named the new community Regina (Latin for queen), after her mother, the Queen.

Inversnaid

The hotel has had many distinguished guests including Queen Victoria.

Irma Hotel

A focal point is a famous back bar made of cherry that was a gift given by Queen Victoria to Buffalo Bill.

Kent County, New Brunswick

Established in 1826 from Northumberland County: named for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1820) and the father of Queen Victoria.

Laurits Tuxen

In the 1880s and 1890s, he travelled widely painting portraits for Europe's royal families including Christian IX of Denmark, Queen Victoria and the Russian royalty.

Legal history of Chinese Americans

Emperor Qianlong wrote a letter to Queen Victoria to say that China has everything and that there is no need to do business with the United Kingdom.

Lord Mayor of Nottingham

Contrary to popular belief, the Mayoral status was unaffected when Nottingham achieved city status during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in June 1897.

Mannargudi Raju Sastri

In commemoration of the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1887, Raju Sastrigal was selected from the south for the title Mahamahopadhyaya and was invited to Delhi for the award ceremony.

Medical College and Hospital Building, Kolkata

The foundation stone was laid by Most Noble, the Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T., Governor-General of India on 30th Sept. 1848 in the 12th year of the reign of Queen Victoria.

My Famous Family

Each episode shows an ordinary member of the public with a famous ancestor: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, George Stephenson, Lawrence of Arabia, or the Duke of Wellington.

Outlawries Bill

The following outlawry bill, as introduced during the reign of Queen Victoria, may serve as an illustration for such a bill's form.

Parsee cricket team in England in 1886

The last match of the tour at Cumberland Lodge against Prince Christian Victor's XII was arranged on the express desire of Queen Victoria.

Princeland

The new colony was named after Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert and was to comprise the area west of Longitude 143°, part of the Wimmera and parts of South Australia near the Victorian border.

Purple mangosteen

There is a legend about Queen Victoria offering a reward of 100 pounds sterling to anyone who could deliver to her the fresh fruit.

Queen Victoria's journals

In 2012, they were scanned and made available online as a special project for the diamond jubilee of Victoria's great-great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth.

Rachel Kollock McDowell

From an early age, she was interested in writing, and at the age of 15 was paid for her poem on the death of Queen Victoria, published in The New York Journal.

Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine, Glasgow

The Regius Chair of Forensic Medicine at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1839 by Queen Victoria.

Roderick McLean

Roderick McLean (died June 9, 1921) attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria on March 2, 1882, at Windsor, England, with a pistol.

Sandy Bowers

Shortly thereafter, the Bowers decided to build a home and they travelled to Europe between 1861 and 1863 to purchase furnishings for their mansion and had a desire to meet Queen Victoria.

Seru Epenisa Cakobau

Cakobau retained his position as Fiji's second most senior chief the title of Vunivalu of Bau,and formally ceded the highest and most precedent Chiefly title of Tui Viti or Paramount Chief of Fiji to the person of Her Majesty Queen Victoria which is currently held by her descendant Elizabeth II.

Shire of Esk

In 1980, the Council of the Shire of Esk adopted the head of the red deer as its logo, honouring a gift of from Queen Victoria in September 1873 to the district.

Sir Joseph de Courcy Laffan, 1st Baronet

Laffan treated troops in the Peninsular War, he was the personal physician (Physician-in-Ordinary) to Queen Victoria's father the Duke of Kent and also the Duke of York (an elder son of King George III).

South Salem, Ohio

According to legend, Mary A. Harriett was born on March 12, 1818 in London, England, the daughter of Queen Victoria's father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.

St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough

The Abbey was founded in 1881 by the Empress Eugénie (1826–1920) as a mausoleum for her late husband Napoleon III (1808–1873), and their son the Prince Imperial (1856–1879), both of whom rest in the Imperial Crypt, along with Eugénie herself, all in granite sarcophagi provided by Queen Victoria.

Staffordshire dog figurines

Owing to Queen Victoria’s spaniel Dash, however, the spaniel model enjoyed a siege of popularity in the 1840s which lasted through her reign.

Taveta, Kenya

1881 when Queen Victoria gave Mount Kilimanjaro away as a wedding present to her grandson, then Crown Prince of Prussia and later Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

The Joseph Cotten Show

The series also aired a Victorian-era mystery "The Tichborne Claimant", with Gladys Cooper portraying the Roman Catholic Lady Tichborne, who seeks the whereabouts of her son, Roger Cooper, who disappeared at sea.

The Mudlark

The Mudlark is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox, a fictionalized account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her mourning for her dead husband, Prince Albert.

The Queen's School, Chester

Founded in 1878 by a group of prominent Chester citizens as The Chester School for Girls, the school owes its royal name to Queen Victoria.

The Shootist

Arriving in Carson City, Nevada on January 22, 1901, reading reports of the death of Great Britain's Queen Victoria in the newspaper, Books seeks a medical opinion from someone he trusts, E. W. "Doc" Hostetler (Jimmy Stewart).

Transnational marriage

Queen Victoria's grandchildren were all over Europe, keeping the royalty together.

Victoria Island

Most of the islands are named for Queen Victoria by British explorers or by others in honour of the popular monarch.

Victoria Land

It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria.

Victoria Mansion

In 1941, Holmes opened the house as the Victoria Mansion (named for Britain’s Queen Victoria) as a museum.

Victoria Park, Charlottetown

Shortly after this proclamation, the name Victoria Park was assigned in honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Victoria Technical Institute

Victoria Technical Institute is an institute established to commemorate the silver jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.

William Lassell

When Queen Victoria visited Liverpool in 1851, Lassell was the only local she specifically requested to meet.

William Penny Brookes

In 1877, Brookes requested a prize from Greece to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee.

Winnipeg Victorias

The Victoria Hockey Club, and the first rink they played in, took their name from the then-reigning monarch of Canada, Queen Victoria.


Alberton, Victoria

The township was surveyed in 1842 and named after Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.

Aventure Malgache

Finally when the Vichy government falls, we see that the Vichy official is nothing but a turncoat; in his office he rapidly replaces a portrait of Marshal Philippe Pétain with a portrait of Queen Victoria, and he changes his bottle of Vichy water for bottles of Scotch and soda water.

Brühl station

Brühl station was opened on 15 February 1844 by the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BCE) on the occasion of the visit of Queen Victoria and was from the beginning the most important stop between Cologne and Bonn.

Canadian Museum of Nature

The newly renovated museum re-opened again on 22 May 2010, and the lantern structure was christened the "Queens' Lantern" in honour of both Elizabeth II, who visited the building on her 2010 royal tour, and Queen Victoria.

Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore

In 1841, Lady Dunmore was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria but resigned upon her husband's death four years later.

Clarence House

It passed to his sister Princess Augusta Sophia and, following her death in 1840, to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent.

Coat of arms of Ottawa

A royal crown alludes to Queen Victoria's choice of Ottawa as Canada's capital, while the maple leaf is the national emblem of Canada.

Desk

It is made from the timbers of the HMS Resolute, an abandoned British ship discovered by an American vessel and returned to the Queen of England as a token of friendship and goodwill.

Dublin Corporation

A later monarch, Queen Victoria, refused to visit Ireland for a number of years, partly in protest at Dublin Corporation's decision not to congratulate her son, Prince Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales, on both his marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark and on the birth of the royal couple's oldest son, Prince Albert Victor.

Edward James Ravenscroft

The Pinetum Britannicum is regarded as a landmark publication on conifers, and both Napoleon III and Queen Victoria subscribed to its first edition.

Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

The Duchess of Wellington was appointed Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria in 1861 by the Liberal Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, and continued in that role until 1868, serving through the governments of Lord Russell, Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

Esther Maria Lewis Chapin

In 1888, at the age of 17 or 18, while her father was serving as Minister to Portugal, she was presented to Queen Victoria wearing a gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth, the world's first couturier.

Fallen London

It is implied that someone known as the Traitor Empress – most likely Queen Victoria – sold the city to the bazaar and allowed it to be taken to spare the life of her husband Albert, Prince Consort.

Gare de Cherbourg

Queen Victoria visited the city and its station the same day and took part in the grandiose celebrations.

George Claridge Druce

He presented the City of Oxford with the Sheriff's gold chain and badge, kept in the Town Hall, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

Golf Canada

The Royal prefix was granted to the CGA in June 1896 by Queen Victoria through then Governor General of Canada, Lord Aberdeen.

Henri François, comte de Ségur

His first cousin was Nicolas-Alexandre, marquis de Ségur and other relatives include Henri IV, vicomte de Ségur, leader and nobleman, becoming Duke in France and England, and Marguerite de Ségur, HRH Albert, Prince Consort's great-grandmother, also Queen Victoria's great-grandmother making Prince Albert and Queen Victoria second if not first cousins, part of Marquessate.

Herend Porcelain Manufactory

The name of well-known patterns refer to the first customers (Queen Victoria, Esterházy, Batthyány, Rothschild, Apponyi).

High sheriff

By contrast, Lord Campbell stated, perhaps without intention of publication, in February 1847, "it began in ancient times, sir, when sovereigns did not know how to write their names." while acquiring a prick and a signature from Queen Victoria as Prince Albert asked him when the custom began.

Hugh Pearson

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Irving Kaufman

The judgment embraced advances in psychiatry and emphatically rejected the M'Naghten test by stating that, "the outrage of a frightened Queen has for far too long caused us to forego the expert guidance that modern psychiatry is able to provide."

Jean de Reszke

De Reszke's singing was admired by Queen Victoria, and between 1889 and 1900 he was invited to take part in a number of royal galas mounted at Covent Garden or command performances held privately at Windsor Castle.

Jersey Eastern Railway

The official opening of Gorey station was on 25 May 1891, to coincide with Queen Victoria’s birthday.

King George III Museum

The collection of scientific and mathematical instruments assembled by George III, after whom the museum is named, was donated to the university by Queen Victoria in 1841, and the museum was opened by Albert, Prince Consort on 1 July 1843.

Myddle

In 1901 the village was graced by a visit of The All American Trumpeters who put on a free show to raise funds for a memorial to Queen Victoria.

Prince Alfred Hamlet

While Goosen was busy measuring out his plots, Queen Victoria's son Prince Alfred visited the Cape Colony.

Vin Mariani

Vin Mariani was very popular in its day, even among royalty such as Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland.

Wigan rail crash

In Victorian times annual holidays to Scotland were popular amongst the affluent; inspired by Queen Victoria's visits to Balmoral.

William Ballantine

Although he could be subpoenaed, he could not be forced to give evidence; Queen Victoria, his mother, advised him not to attend the court.

William Knyvett

His unpublished works included the grand anthem, "The King shall rejoice", produced officially for the coronation of George IV, and "This is the day the Lord has made" written for the coronation of Queen Victoria.

William Umpleby Kirk

Kirk's reputation grew when he photographed Queen Victoria's yacht HMY Alberta at a speed of 10 knots entering Cowes Harbour; this is said to be one of the first British photographs of a vessel in motion.