Alexandrina Victoria was born in 1819. His father, Edward Augustus, was the younger brother of the English King William IV, who had no children. Therefore, when he died in 1837, Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen of England Victoria I. He ruled his country for 63 years until his death in 1901. his was the longest reign in British history. Married at age 21 with her first cousin, the German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gota, was the mother of nine children and, when dying, had 37 grandchildren. Was connected with almost all the ruling houses of Europe. During his administration, the United Kingdom became the most powerful country on Earth. This was the period of the machine, during which the industrial revolution progressed with a speed that never again reached. It was also the moment of greatest growth and consolidation of British colonial rule. You could say Victoria, extraordinary popularity among his countrymen, was the queen who led the transformation of his country: an influential nation in the nineteenth century became the first superpower in the early twentieth century.
During the beginning of his reign, Victoria was supported by the Liberal Party and his henchman in this period was Lord Melbourne, the leader of that group. By marrying the Prince Albert, a conservative, bent by the Tories. The most influential conservatives was their prime ministers Benjamin Disraeli, who had himself crowned Empress of India.