How Tall Was Queen Victoria?Queen Victoria was 5'0"
Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empress of India, whose reign of 63 years was 5'0".She took the throne in 1837 at age 18. She married Albert, the German son of the Due of Saxe-Coburg. The story of the young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the move The Young Victoria follows Victoria's rise to power, the romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert.
It is said Queen Victoria started the tradition of brides wearing white dresses at their wedding. Before Queen Victoria’s wedding a bride would wear her best dress of no particular color. Her reign, 63 years is known as the Victorian Era, a period of great expansion and progress of cultural, political, scientific, industrial and military aspects within the United Kingdom. At the end of her reign, the Queen's full style and title was: "Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India"
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