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Empress Victoria (other)
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Empress Victoria may refer to: *Victoria (Gallic Empire) (), called ''Empress of the West'' and ''de facto'' empress of Gaul *Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Empress of India () *Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901), German Empress *The Empress (hotel), in Victoria, British Columbia See also *Princess Victoria (other) *Queen Victoria (other) Queen Victoria (1819–1901; ) was Queen of the United Kingdom. Queen Victoria may also refer to: People * Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901), queen consort of Prussia in 1888 * Victoria of Baden (1862–1930), queen consort of Sweden from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Gallic Empire)
Victoria (), also known as Vitruvia, was a leader in the Roman Empire, Roman breakaway realm known as the Gallic Empire in the late 3rd century. She was the mother of Victorinus, who ruled as Gallic Emperor until his assassination in 271. Afterwards, Victoria used her authority to stabilize the empire and select a successor. History Victoria is mentioned in Aurelius Victor's ''Liber de Caesaribus'', and in the account of the Thirty Tyrants (Roman), Thirty Tyrants in the unreliable ''Historia Augusta''. Nothing is known of her early life, though she must have been from a wealthy and distinguished Gauls, Gallic family, which produced the emperor Victorinus, her son.''Liber de Caesaribus'' 33.12. See Bird, p. 34; 141. According to Aurelius Victor, after Victorinus was killed in a mutiny, Victoria stepped in, using her copious resources to buy the support of the legions. Thus she assured the ascension of her chosen candidate for emperor, Tetricus I, who was formerly the governor of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her Comptrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Princess Royal
Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was created Princess Royal in 1841. As the eldest child of the British monarch, she was briefly heir presumptive until the birth of her younger brother, the future Edward VII. She was the mother of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor. Educated by her father in a politically Liberalism in the United Kingdom, liberal environment, Victoria was married at the age of 17 to Frederick III, German Emperor, Prince Frederick of Prussia, with whom she went on to have eight children. Victoria shared with Frederick her liberal views and hopes that Prussia and the later German Empire should become a constitutional monarchy, based on the British model. Criticised for this attitude and for her English origins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Empress (hotel)
The Fairmont Empress, formerly and commonly referred to as The Empress, is one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Located on 721 Government Street, it is situated in Downtown Victoria, facing the city's Inner Harbour. The hotel was designed by Francis Rattenbury, and was built by Canadian Pacific Hotels, a division of the Canadian Pacific Railway company. The hotel is presently managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, part of AccorHotels since 2016. It is owned by Nat and Flora Bosa of Vancouver. The Empress Hotel is an elegant hotel with gables, spires, and a gothic architectural style. Opened on 20 January 1908, the Châteauesque-styled building is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. Since its opening, the hotel has undergone two expansions, the first from 1910 to 1912, and a second expansion in 1928. The building was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in January 1981. The Empress underwent a significant restoration be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Victoria (other)
Princess Victoria or Princess Viktoria may refer to: Royalty British royalty * Victoria of the United Kingdom (other), various princesses ** Queen Victoria (1819–1901; ), born ''Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent'' Continental European royalty * Duchess Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660–1690), later Dauphine Victoire of France as the wife of Louis, Grand Dauphin * Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (1718–1781), Queen of Portugal as the wife of Joseph I * Princess Victoire of France (1733–1799), daughter of Louis XV of France * Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal (1768–1788), daughter of Maria I and Peter III of Portugal * Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, (1786–1861), mother of Queen Victoria * Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1822–1857), wife of Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours * Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901), eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
