2-716-499 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Queen Victoria's First Parliament: The Opening Ceremony, November 20, 1837', (1901). Victoria (1819-1901) at the Houses of Parliament in London. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after the death of her uncle, King William IV. She ruled as Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]