Number 35, exercise 19.0:05
Listen to the final part of the text, Royal London, and read it in the same manner.0:11
Another strong queen was Queen Victoria, 1819-1901, whose monument you can see in front of Buckingham Palace.0:24
Queen Victoria came to the throne as a young woman in 1837 and reigned until her death in 1901.0:35
She ruled for the longest period in the English history for 64 years.0:44
Victoria married a German Prince Albert, but he died at the age of 42 in 1861.0:51
That was a great tragedy for Queen Victoria.1:00
She left London and never lived in the city where she had been so happy with her husband and nine children, five sons and four daughters.1:04
But there are places in London that remind us of their love.1:15
One of them is the Royal Albert Hall, a very large concert hall where the best musicians of the world perform classical music.1:20
In front of the Albert hall, there is a monument to Prince Albert built by Queen Victoria.1:30
Another place is the Victoria and Albert Museum V and A, with its rich collections of paintings and other works of art.1:38
The family life of Queen Victoria touched people's hearts.1:48
But this is not the only reason why Queen Victoria became very popular during her reign.1:53
Britain became a rich industrial country with a developed trade, an empire with a lot of colonies.2:00
Queen Victoria's great great granddaughter, Elizabeth II is on the British throne now.2:08
The Queen's title in the United Kingdom is Elizabeth II by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of her other realms and territories, Queen, head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the2:17
faith, etc, etc, etc, etc.2:34
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