维多利亚 Victoria.ppt

* BREAD PPT DESIGN Alexandrina Victoria 维多利亚女王 （1819.5.24—1901.1.22) Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom Reign 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901 Coronation 28 June 1838 House House of Hanover Born 24 May 1819 Kensington Palace, London Died 22 January 1901 (aged 81) Melancholic childhood Her?father?died?of?pneumonia,?leaving?his?wife?and?children?heavy?debt. Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called Kensington System” Studied court etiquette, and many taboos. Do?not?talk?to?strangers,?not?allowed?to?show?feeling?in?front?of?outsiders,?shall?not?break?the?rules,?not?allowed?to?choose?books?according?to?their?own?likes?and?dislikes?etc.? She?inherited ?the?throne?at the?age?of?18?after her?fathers?three?elder brothers?died?without?surviving?legitimate?issue.? ?1840?British?occupied?New?Zealand,?which?means?British?colonial?system?has?formed.?In?early?1840,?Queen?Victoria?in?Parliament?made?a?famous ?speech?which?called?“for?the?interests?of?the?British,?then?the?first?Opium?War?began. Diplomacy： external expansion the empire on which the sun never sets ?Held?the?Great?Exhibition Economy： laissez-faire capitalism to monopoly capitalism The?World?Expo?is?dating?back?to??the?Great?Exhibition?in?1851. Politics：constitutional monarchy The major Victorian novelists are: Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Bront? Emily Bront? George Eliot Thomas Hardy January?22rd,?1901,?Queen?Victoria?died?in?the?Isle?of?Wight,?at?the?age?of?82?years.? The?Victorian?Age?was?at ?the?height?of?the?Industrial?Revolution,?a?period?of? significant?social,?economic?and?technological?change?in?the?United?Kingdom. In?that?period?the?United?Kingdom?became?thelargest?superpower?the?world?had?ever?seen. THANK YOU