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June 20 in Victorian History

What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.

1837

Victoria becomes queen

At six in the morning, the Lord Chamberlain and the Archbishop of Canterbury wake the 18-year-old princess at Kensington Palace: King William IV is dead. I will be good, the young queen tells her ministers. The Victorian age begins.

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