Encyclopedia > List of places named for Queen Victoria
A number of places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria.
There are other places that have the name "Victoria", with or without other words, but not all were named after Queen Victoria; see Victoria for a list of all places so named.
Victoria, who was largely of German descent, was the last monarch of the House of Hanover; her successor King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III and Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Victoria's personal life was marked by many personal tragedies, including the death of her son, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the fatal illness of her daughter, The Empress Friedrich, Queen Dowager of Prussia, and the death of two of her grandsons, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein.
Victoria's personal life was marked by many personal tragedies, including the death of her son, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the fatal illness of her daughter, the German Empress, and the death of two of her grandsons.
Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, the Prince of Wales, who reigned as King Edward VII.
As of 2005, the European monarchs and former monarchs descended from Victoria are: the Queen of the United Kingdom, the King of Norway, the King of Sweden, the Queen of Denmark, the King of Spain, the King of the Hellenes (deposed) and the King of Romania (deposed).
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