1. The British Empire Asiah S. BriggsWorld History Period:50
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2. Queen Victoria
3. Biography Of Queen Victoria Queen Victoria's nearly 64-year
reign (1837-1901) was the longest in British history. She presided
over a period of British industrial progress, artistic successes
and political empire-building which became known as the Victorian
Era. Victoria was only 18 when she became queen upon the death of
her uncle, King William IV. In 1840 she married her first cousin
Albert, the German son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Victoria was shattered by his untimely death at age 42, and she
went into a prolonged period of mourning. (She never stopped
mourning entirely, wearing black the rest of her life.) Late in the
1860s she re-emerged into public life, and as years passed she
became increasingly venerated among her subjects. Victoria
celebrated her diamond jubilee -- 60 years on the throne -- in
1897. After her death in 1901 she was succeeded by her son Prince
Albert, who became King Edward VII.
4. QueenElizabethII
5. Biography Of Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II has been the United Kingdom's reigning
monarch since 1952. Elizabeth was proclaimed queen on 6 February
1952 following the death of her father, George VI; she was formally
crowned the next year, on 2 June 1953. Her husband, Prince Philip,
comes from the royal family of Greece and was created Duke of
Edinburgh prior to their wedding on 20 November 1947. Elizabeth and
Philip had four children: Charles (b. 1948), Anne (b. 1950), Andrew
(b. 1960) and Edward (b. 1964); as the eldest, Prince Charles is
heir to the throne. Queen Elizabeth is the sister of the late
Princess Margaret, daughter of the late Queen Mother, mother-in-law
to the late Princess Diana, and grandmother to the princes William
and Harry. She also shares a name with a famous predecessor, Queen
Elizabeth I. The queen celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 2002,
marking 50 years on the throne.
6. The Castle
7. Queen Elizabeth With President & FirstLady
8. Charles & Diana
9. Charles & Camilla
10. Biography Of Charles Charles Philip Arthur George, the
Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the throne, was born in
Buckingham Palace on November 14, 1948. Prince Charles takes an
active role in many organizations and attends official functions.
In 1997, for instance, he represented the Queen at the handover of
the former British colony of Hong Kong to Chinese authorities. He
is also particularly interested in architecture and is an active
sportsman. He attended the rigorous and spartan Gordonstoun School
in Scotland, and became the first royal ever to study overseas when
he was an exchange student at theGeelong Church of England Grammar
School in Melbourne, Australia. He also spent two years at the
University of Cambridge.
11. William & Kate
12. Biography Of William Prince William is second in line to
the British throne, following his father Charles, Prince of Wales.
Prince William is the first son of Charles and the late Princess
Diana, and the grandson of the current Queen Elizabeth II. Prince
William attended Wetherby and Ludgrove schools, followed by Eton
College and then the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His
good looks, athletic manner and royal status made him a popular
public heartthrob during his teen years. On 22 June 2005 he
graduated from St. Andrews, receiving an upper-second class honors
degree with a focus in geography. He entered Sandhurst Military
Academy in January of 2006 and graduated in December of that year;
in January of 2007 he reported for duty in the Blues and Royals
regiment of the Household Cavalry, and has continued military
service since then. His younger brother, Prince Harry, graduated
from Sandhurst and joined the Household Cavalry before him. Prince
William began dating Kate Middleton, a fellow student from St.
Andrews, in 2003. They broke up briefly in 2007, but reunited the
same year. On 16 November 2010, Buckingham Palace announced that
the couple were engaged to be married. The Royal Wedding was held
on 29 April 2011, a Friday, at Westminster Abbey in London. Queen
Elizabeth announced before the wedding that she had bestowed the
title of Duke of Cambridge on William, and had also given William
andKate the Scottish titles of Earl and Countess of Strathearn --
possibly a nod to their meeting at St. Andrews.
13. Biography Of Kate Kate Middleton was born January 9, 1982
in Reading, England. On April 29, 2011, she married Prince William
at Westminster Abbey in London. Shortly before the wedding, Queen
Elizabeth conferred Kate with the title of Catherine, Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. Born January 9, 1982, in
Reading, Berkshire, England, to pilot Michael and flight attendant
Carole Middleton. She has a younger sister, Philippa ("Pippa") and
a younger brother, James. Kate came from a decidedly working-class
stock of coal miners and builders. Her maternal grandmother,
Dorothy Goldsmith, became the first member of the family to attempt
to improve the family's social and economic status. Dorothy pushed
her children to aim high and, as a result, Kate's mother became an
airline hostessat the time, a considerably glamorous job. It was on
this job that Carole met dispatcher Michael Middleton. The couple
married soon after. By the time Kate was born, her mother was
already looking for new ways to climb the social ladder. In 1987,
Kate's mother founded her own mail-order party goods company, with
ambitions of sending her children to private schools. The business
was a surprise success, eventually making the Middleton family
multi-millionaires.
