On This Day 178 Years Ago – Victoria crowned Queen of England
On 28th June 1838 the Coronation of Queen Victoria took place just over a year after she ascended the throne at the tender age of 18 when her uncle King William IV died in 1837. The procession to and from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey was witnessed by huge crowds because the new railways made it possible for an unprecedented 400,000 people to come to London from the rest of the country! Only four years later Queen Victoria became the first monarch to ride on a train!
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