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1 day ago · Victoria is the eldest of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia 's children. The Crown Princess is first in line to the Swedish throne. Victoria shares two children, Estelle and Oscar, with her ...
5 days ago · non grata in Victoria’s household. The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley, wears a horsehair wig, the last Archbishop of Canterbury to do so. Malvern Priory boasts the most extensive collection of 15th-century stained glass in an English parish church, but this window was erected to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887.
4 days ago · Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). Her reign was the longest of any monarch in British history and came to be known as the Victorian era.
4 days ago · Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for valour in the British armed forces, awarded for extreme bravery in the face of the enemy. It was instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria at the request of her consort, Prince Albert. The first crosses were awarded during the Crimean War. In 1858, new statutes.
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3 days ago · See also: Descendants of Queen Victoria § Edward VII, and Descendants of George V. In 1861, Princess Alexandra met King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, then called Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, at the Speyer Cathedral in Germany. Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. [ 18]
5 days ago · The following year, in 2011, the Princess found herself the butt of global jokes after donning that infamous outré sculptural Philip Treacy number for Prince William and Kate’s wedding.
5 days ago · His marriage (July 11, 1818) to Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen produced two daughters, both of whom died in infancy. On William’s death, therefore, the British crown passed to his niece Princess Victoria, and the Hanoverian crown passed to his brother Ernest Augustus, duke of Cumberland.
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