Victoria

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 10.

Victoria.—The late queen of England reigned longer than any other queen of history, longer than any other European sovereign except Louis XIV., longer by four years, three months, and twenty-six days than the longest reign of English monarchs, that of George III. “She outlived all the members of the House of Lords who were peers of the realm at the time of her accession, except Earl Nelson, and all the peers who were then or had been members of the House of Commons; she survived all the members of her original Privy Council and of her first House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone having been one of the oldest former members of the latter; she saw every Episcopal see vacated and refilled at least twice during her reign; she saw her judicial bench recruited twice at least from end to end; she lived to see five archbishops of Canterbury and six of York and five bishops of London, rule and pass away; she outlived eleven lord chancellors, ten prime ministers, and six speakers of the House of Commons.” She was empress of India for twenty-five years. She was a widow for forty years prior to her death. It was a remarkable reign in a remarkable age.