Great Britain under  Victoria - Queen:  20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901
1891 Silver 3 Pence 16mm (1.39 grams) 0.9250 Silver (0.0420 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 777
VICTORIA◦DEI◦GRA◦BRITT◦REGINA◦FID◦DEF IND◦IMP◦:, Crowned veiled bust of Queen Victoria left.
Crowned denomination divides date within wreath.

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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 her death. From 1 May 1876, she had 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 . Both the Duke of Kent and King  George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her  German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld . She  inherited the throne aged 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all  died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already  an established constitutional monarchy , in which the sovereign  held relatively little direct political power. Privately, Victoria attempted to  influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a  national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.

Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , in  1840. Their  nine children married into royal and noble  families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet  "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into  deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength, but  in the latter half of her reign her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of  public celebration.

Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era . It was a period of industrial,  cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom,  and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire . She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover . Her son and successor, Edward VII , belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , the line of his  father.

Great  Britain, also known as Britain, is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe . With an area of 209,331 km²  (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest island in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world . In 2011 the island  had a population of about 61 million people, making it the third-most populous island in the world, after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The island is the largest in the British Isles archipelago , which also includes the island of Ireland to its west and over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands .

The island is dominated by an oceanic climate with quite narrow temperature  differences between seasons. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ,  constituting most of its territory: most of England , Scotland , and Wales are on the island, with their respective  capital cities,  London , Edinburgh , and Cardiff . The term Great Britain often extends  to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales.

A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the Union of Scotland and England (which already comprised the  present-day countries of England and Wales ) in 1707. More than a hundred years  before, in 1603, King James VI , King of Scots , had inherited the throne of  England, but it was not until 1707 that the Parliaments of the two countries  agreed to form a unified state. In 1801, Great Britain united with the neighboring Kingdom of Ireland , forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ,  which was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after  the Irish Free State seceded in 1922.