She ruled Great Britain for 64 years, which went down in history as the Victorian era. She has been called "the greatest woman of all time." But simple female happiness did not bypass the queen. A rare case: the royal marriage was not a marriage of convenience - she loved herself and was loved. The most romantic love story is far from the “great and eternal love of Victoria and Albert.” Her relationship with her husband became a model of a happy family life. After the death of her husband, she did not stop mourning for almost 40 years, but she bequeathed to be buried in white. She wanted her and Albert to be the same age at the tomb - then it would look as if they died on the same day... “I mourn the old, motherly, middle-class queen, under whose spacious, ugly tartan shawl the whole nation warmed itself and whose reign was so cozy and beneficial,” the writer Henry James said of Victoria. Perhaps you couldn’t say it better...