She gave her name to an era of British greatness, especially in the far-flung [[British Empire]] with which she identified. She played a small role in politics, but became the iconic symbol of the nation, the empire, and proper, restrained behaviour. A conservative woman who rejected the wild hijinks of previous monarchs, she set the tone of moral earnestness and strait-laced propriety which characterized the [[Victorian Age]]. | She gave her name to an era of British greatness, especially in the far-flung [[British Empire]] with which she identified. She played a small role in politics, but became the iconic symbol of the nation, the empire, and proper, restrained behaviour. A conservative woman who rejected the wild hijinks of previous monarchs, she set the tone of moral earnestness and strait-laced propriety which characterized the [[Victorian Age]]. |