. A short history of England and the British Empire. e. 502. Queen In 1837 William IV died and thecrown passed to his niece, the Princess Victoria, a young girlVictoria. of eignteen Queen Victoria took her do- mestic and social duties very seriously; she had,therefore, not always the necessary time for governmentalaffairs, and as a result the office of the prime minister grew togreat importance. Victorias long reign of more than sixty- 1 Cheyney, No. 426. 2 The genealogy of the Hanoverian dynasty. James I,1603-1625 Elizabeth Sophia = Ernest Augustus, I elector ol HanoverGeor
. A short history of England and the British Empire. e. 502. Queen In 1837 William IV died and thecrown passed to his niece, the Princess Victoria, a young girlVictoria. of eignteen Queen Victoria took her do- mestic and social duties very seriously; she had,therefore, not always the necessary time for governmentalaffairs, and as a result the office of the prime minister grew togreat importance. Victorias long reign of more than sixty- 1 Cheyney, No. 426. 2 The genealogy of the Hanoverian dynasty. James I,1603-1625 Elizabeth Sophia = Ernest Augustus, I elector ol HanoverGeorge I,1714-1727 George II,1727-1760 IFrederick,prince of Wales George III1760-1820 George IV, Frederick William IV, Edward, Ernest. Two other 1820-1830 duke of York, 1830-1837 duke of Kent, duke of Cumberland, sons and fourdied l827 died 1820 later king of Han- daughters I over, died 1851 Albert of = VictoriaSaxe-Coburg | 1837-1901 Edward VII Eight other 1901-1910 children Albert, George V, Three other died 1892 1910- • children QUEEN VICTORIA 551. 552 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REFORMS Victorian prime ministers. three years, the longest in English history, saw a series of re-markable men in charge of the queens government. Four of these played large andbrilliant parts: RobertPeel, Lord Palmerston,Benjamin Disraeli, andWilliam Ewart Glad-stone. The queen didnot allow the cabinet tocontrol the governmentabsolutely : she tried tokeep informed at alltimes and claimed aright to share in theadoption of govern-mental policies; how-ever, in such mattersshe usually found itnecessary to defer tothe opinions of the min-isters in Queen Victoria mar-ried Albert, a princefrom one of the lesser German Prince Albert was neverPrince popular with the English people: he was some- Albert, what stiff and reserved and had none of those genial graces that Englishmen love to see in royalty. No placewas made for him in the government, and for a long time hehad no legal title; but the quee
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