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a crowd gathers around and the Princess looks on from a window
Plate 259 from chapter 49 of Gleanings of natural history
View of Peter's Lane
England hero Ian Botham celebrates taking an Australian wicket
The setting is a theatre and the curtain is just about to rise
Queen Victoria careless a crowd gathers around andQueen Victoria, 1859. Victoria (1819 1901) succeeded her uncle, William IV, to the throne in 1837. Her reign, the longest of any British monarch to date, saw the peak of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire into the world's pre eminent power.