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Queen Victoria was unwell. She died in 1901 and had a military funeral. She had reigned for nearly 64 years. She who had spent so many years wearing black requested a white funeral, an idea she may have had from Tennyson. Victoria was the last of the Hanoverians. Her eldest son, Bertie, would now be Edward VII.

Lord Baden-Powell

ROBERT BADEN-POWELL, FIRST BARON BADEN-POWELL OF GILWELL (1857-1941)

• Famous for founding the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and the siege of Mafeking in the second Boer War
• Served in India, Africa and the Mediterranean as a soldier
• Set up the South African Constabulary
• Returned to Britain in 1903
• Retired from the army in 1910
• Founded the Scouts in 1908, the year in which he published Scouting For Boys

Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight which had remained just as it was when Albert died in 1861.

Queen Victoria requested that in her coffin should be placed Prince Albert's dressing gown, a plaster moulded from his hand, family photographs and a photograph of John Brown.

POSTSCRIPT TO QUEEN VICTORIA'S DIARY

Here on Sunday, the thirteenth of January, the Queen's Journal, kept for nearly seventy years, ends.

On the Monday her Majesty saw Lord Roberts again for a short while; but within a few days the illness assumed a critical character; and on Saturday, the nineteenth, a bulletin was published, giving her people the first intimation of the impending calamity.

It said: "The Queen has not lately been in her usual health, and is unable for the present to take her customary drives. The Queen during the past year has had a great strain upon her powers, which has rather told upon her Majesty's nervous system. It has, therefore, been thought advisable by her Majesty's physicians that the Queen should be kept perfectly quiet in the house, and should abstain for the present from transacting business".

The last phase was mercifully short; and at 6.30pm on Tuesday, the twenty second of January nineteen hundred and one, Queen Victoria, in the words of the final bulletin, 'breathed her last, surrounded by her children and grandchildren'.

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1837	Victoria becomes Queen
1859	Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
1861	Prince Albert dies
1865	Palmerston dies Russell becomes Prime Minister
1868	Disraeli becomes Prime Minister Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1870	Franco-Prussian War First Irish Land Act
1874	Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
1877	Victoria becomes Empress of India
1880	Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1881	Disraeli dies Second Irish Land Act
1885	Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
1887	Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
1892	Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1894	Rosebery becomes Prime Minister
1895	Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
1897	Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1898	Gladstone dies
1899	Second Boer War breaks out
1901	Queen Victoria dies Edward VII becomes king