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British Empire

BRITISH EMPIRE

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time. The empire covered more than 33,700,000 km², almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe the British Empire, because its expanse across the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories. The independence of the Thirteen Colonies in North America in 1783 after the American War of Independence caused Britain to lose some of its oldest and most populous colonies. British attention soon turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Following the defeat of Napoleonic France in 1815, Britain enjoyed a century of almost unchallenged dominance and expanded its imperial holdings across the globe. Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were reclassified as dominions.

There are some types of possesion in the british empire: there are colonies, protectorates, economic imperialism, direct control, indirect control...

QUEEN VICTORIA

Alexandrina Victoria was born in 1819 and she died in 1901(nineteen ou one). Queen Victoria, was only 18 when she came to the throne so she had a lot to learn. She was the monarch of UK of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. Her power came before she reign, becouse she is the doughter of Prince Edward, duke of kent. The queen victoria reign for 63 years which is the longest of any british monarch and the longest women monarch. That reign was so powerful that recived a name: Victorian Era.

Her mother had a strong temperament, so she made the paper of father ang mother.

Victoria only spoke Germany. When was obious that she could be the queen of England, she had to learn to speak English.

When she was a teenager, she had never gone alone to any place neither in the palace.

When someone talked with Victoria about her possibilities to be the queen, she said: “I will be a good queen”. She only had 10 years old.

When Guillermo IV died, in 1837, the Canterbury archbishop knelt down in front of Victoria to said that she was the new England Queen.

The ceremony of her coronation took place in Westminster in 1838.

Victoria queen was in love of her husband and cousin, Alberto prince of Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha. They met when she was 16. They married when she was 21, he wasn't in love of Victoria but he was happy with she, years latter.

Alberto was one of few men that Victoria had spoken in her life and the firt who spoke in privacity. Alberto was a type of god for Victoria.

Alberto was nombered “Consort Prince” when they had married, but he didin't get the title until 1857.

They had nine sons, but Victoria loved more Alberto than they.

With the unions by her sons and grandchildren with Europe, she was know with the nickname of “Europe's Grandmother”. But she was Hemofilia's carrer and her children were victims of the desease.

The prestige of the crown was restored, thanks to the political skill of Prince Albert, who had undoubtedly become the real king in the shade.

In 1861 her mother and her husband died. It was the worst periode of her life.

At that moment, she took the soberany until her death.

Some romances are alleged to Victoria but she always wore mourning her husband. For example, Munshi Abdul Karim.

The Duke of Kent, lived in exile in Brussels, he was retired of the army since 1803, he was sunk on a hundred of debts but he was receiving a pension from the British Parlament, and he met the Princess Leiningen of 31 years old who, without her husband because of his sadly death, was taking care of her two children, Charles and Feodora, 12 and 9 years. Lately, they married at Kew Palace.

In 1820, when Victoria had only 8 months old, his father, the Duke of Kent, died of a fulminant pneumonia, and six days later, on January 29 in Windsor Castle, where he was confined from 1811 by permanent mental diseases his grandfather dies, king George III, blind and crazy. We have to remember that George III was marked by military conflicts. Early in his reign, he defeated France in the Seven Years War, but he will always be remembered because of the loss of his American colonies, which they became the actual United States.

Since 1811, after relapse end of George III, his eldest son George, Prince of Wales, and Victoria's uncle, would rule as regent until his death and was succeeded on the throne by the name of George IV. This would be remembered as Prince and extravagant monarch.

Victoria was then the third successor in line, having many chances to the throne, because his two uncles, the Duke of York had no children, and had 30 years separated from his wife, and the Duke of Clarence, who either had descendence. But it was that same year when the Duchess of Clarence gave birth to Elizabeth Georgiana, who died three months later, victim of seizures, the following year in 1822 the Duchess returned to give birth to a pair of twins who would born death and letting her unable to cenceive again.

At the age of three years, Victoria was back in the front of the succession but the Duke of York died when Victoria is seven so she remains in second place in the line of succession.

The June 26 of 1830, King George IV dies and he's succeeded by the Duke of Clarence and King William IV, without descendence, Victoria then became 11 years, the future to the throne. This Regent Law was enacted, which stipulated that the Duchess of Kent, Victoria's mother, would be regent of the kingdom during the monarchy of the future queen, with this law, ignored the precedent of George IV and Parliament create any council to limit the powers of the eventual Regent.

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