Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.  But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of 18. She married her first cousin, Albert, and had nine children who married into families across Europe. By the time she had earned the nickname “The Grandmother of Europe” and the title “Empress of India” it was indeed true that the sun never set on the British Empire. Publicly, she became a national icon, but privately, Who Was Queen Victoria?


維多利亞女王在位長達六十三年又七個月，這段期間稱為維多利亞時代，此時正值大英帝國工業、文化、科學、政治大幅擴張的時代。她十八歲繼承大英帝國的王位之前，就一直在嚴格且封閉的監督下成長。她嫁給最大的表弟艾伯特，並和他生下九個小孩。這些小孩後來也和歐洲各國王室通婚，因此維多利亞也贏得「歐洲祖母」以及「印度女王」的美名，她也確實讓大英帝國成為日不落國。維多利亞女王代表英國，但私底下的維多利亞究竟是什麼樣子呢？7