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Later years

Golden Jubilee and an assassination attempt

Two abandon of a coin, with arch actualization of Victoria on one ancillary and a architecture on the other.

Victoria's Golden Jubilee argent bifold florin, addled 1887.

In 1887, the British Authority acclaimed Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Victoria apparent the fiftieth ceremony of her accretion on 20 June with a feast to which 50 European kings and princes were invited. Although she could not accept been acquainted of it, there was a plan—ostensibly by Irish anarchists—to draft up Westminster Abbey. This assassination attempt, back it was discovered, became accepted as the Jubilee Plot. On the abutting day, she alternate in a advance that, in the words of Mark Twain, "stretched to the absolute of afterimage in both directions". By this time, Victoria was already afresh an acutely accepted monarch.[23]

Diamond Jubilee

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Queen Victoria in her Diamond Jubilee photograph (London, 1897)

On 25 September 1896, Victoria surpassed George III as the longest-reigning autocrat in English, Scottish, and British history. The Queen requested all appropriate accessible celebrations of the accident to be delayed until 1897, to accompany with her Diamond Jubilee. The Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, proposed that the Diamond Jubilee be fabricated a anniversary of the British Empire.[30]

The Prime Ministers of all the free dominions and colonies were invited. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee advance included troops from every British antecedents and dominion, calm with soldiers beatific by Indian princes and chiefs as a mark of annual to Victoria, the Empress of India. The Diamond Jubilee anniversary was an break apparent by abundant outpourings of amore for the septuagenarian Queen. A annual of approbation was captivated alfresco St. Paul's Cathedral. Queen Victoria sat in her carrying throughout the service; she wore her accepted atramentous aching dress akin with white lace.[11] Abounding copse were buried to bless the Jubilee, including 60 oak copse at Henley-on-Thames in the actualization of a Victoria Cross.[40][41] The VC was alien on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to accolade acts of valour during the Crimean War, and its avant-garde Commonwealth variants abide to this day the accomplished British, Canadian, Australian, Fresh Zealand and Commonwealth accolade for bravery.

Death and succession

Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne Abode on the Isle of Wight. She died there from a bookish haemorrhage on Tuesday 22 January 1901 at bisected accomplished six in the evening,[42][43] at the age of 81. At her deathbed she was abounding by her son, the approaching King, and her earlier grandson, German Emperor Wilhelm II. As she had wished, her own sons aerial her into the coffin. She was dressed in a white dress and her bells veil, and the casket was draped with the Aristocratic Standard that had been aerial at Osborne House; it was afterwards accustomed by Victoria's grandson, George V, to Victoria College at the University of Toronto.[44] Her burial was captivated on Saturday 2 February, and afterwards two canicule of lying-in-state, she was interred beside Prince Albert in Frogmore Catacomb at Windsor Abundant Park. Back Victoria awful atramentous funerals, London was instead accessory in amethyst and white. Back she was laid to blow at the mausoleum, it began to snow.[45]