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Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of White on 22nd January 1901; she was then the matriarch of European Royalty, had transformed the standing of the Monarchy and had made it
the single most obvious link holding together the world’s…

After the death of Prince Albert, unsubstantiated rumors about her relationship with her Scottish attendant, John Brown, led to increasing criticisms.
Date of withdrawal 1892 - 1896

By the late 1870’s her conservative Prime Minister Disraeli had managed to coax her back into public view. Queen Victoria described herself as a liberal and supported constitutional government, free trade and religious tolerance. In 1877 Disraeli…

Prince Albert died in December 1861 and Queen Victoria was so over whelmed by grief that she withdrew from public life for almost a decade confining her duties
to advising her ministers mainly by post, and unveiling memorials to her husband.The…