Also referred to as the ‘white wedding cake monument’, The Queen Victoria Memorial stands in front of Buckingham Palace at almost 25m high. It is the largest standing monument to a monarch in England, and was carved from a 2,300 pound block of solid Carrara marble. The monument was designed in 1903 by Sir Aston Webb who also designed Admiralty Arch, the grand entrance to the Mall and approach to the Palace. Currently, Queen Victoria is the longest reigning monarch in British history, and she is associated with ‘Britain’s great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire’. She was born in 1819 at Kensington Palace in London, and she became queen at the young age of 18. Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, and they produced nine children between the years 1840 and 1857. Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, in 1901 after a reign which lasted almost 64 years. The Queen Victoria Memorial was unveiled in 1911 by her grandson, King George V.
- The Queen Victoria Memorial
- Buckingham Palace
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- Underground: Green Park