22 JANYARY
After a short illness, Victoria queen of Britain and empress of India, died today ar Osborne, her seaside home on the Isle of Wight, surrouded by close members of her family. She was 81 years old. Victoria's reign lasted nearly 64 years, longer than any monarch before her. It was an age of expansion in which trade and industry flourished and the British Empire stretched to all four corners of the world.
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