what countries did queen victoria rule?
United Kingdom British Raj
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 Victoria visited mainland Europe regularly for holidays . In 1889 , during a stay in Biarritz , she became the first reigning monarch from Britain to set foot in Spain when she crossed the border for a brief visit . By April 1900 , the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable . Instead , the Queen went to Ireland for the first time since 1861 , in part to acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war . In July , her second son Alfred ( " Affie " ) died ; " Oh , God ! My poor darling Affie gone too " , she wrote in her journal . " It is a horrible year , nothing but sadness & horrors of one kind & another . " 

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 The British Empire was the largest on Earth , and Britain protected that empire and its trade routes with the world 's largest navy . Great Britain assumed the role of peacekeeper on the world 's oceans , and the Royal Navy was the instrument by which the Pax Britannica was kept . The global reach of the Royal Navy included the western Pacific Ocean , patrolled by the Australia Station . In 1887 Captain Henry Coey Kane took Calliope to the Pacific . At first assigned to the China Station , the vessel was reassigned to the Australia Station later in 1887 . The cruiser was in New Zealand at the end of that year , and was the first vessel to enter the new Calliope Dock . In early 1888 Calliope was sent north to watch over a looming diplomatic crisis and potential military confrontation in Samoa . 

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 Queen Victoria , Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 

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 Internationally , Victoria took a keen interest in the improvement of relations between France and Britain . She made and hosted several visits between the British royal family and the House of Orleans , who were related by marriage through the Coburgs . In 1843 and 1845 , she and Albert stayed with King Louis Philippe I at château d 'Eu in Normandy ; she was the first British or English monarch to visit a French one since the meeting of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 . When Louis Philippe made a reciprocal trip in 1844 , he became the first French king to visit a British sovereign . Louis Philippe was deposed in the revolutions of 1848 , and fled to exile in England . At the height of a revolutionary scare in the United Kingdom in April 1848 , Victoria and her family left London for the greater safety of Osborne House , a private estate on the Isle of Wight that they had purchased in 1845 and redeveloped . Demonstrations by Chartists and Irish nationalists failed to attract widespread support , and the scare died down without any major disturbances . Victoria 's first visit to Ireland in 1849 was a public relations success , but it had no lasting impact or effect on the growth of Irish nationalism . 

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 After a successful visit to Northern Ireland in July 1924 , the Labour government agreed that Albert and Elizabeth could tour East Africa from December 1924 to April 1925 . The Labour government was defeated by the Conservatives in a general election in November ( which Elizabeth described as " marvellous " to her mother ) and the Governor @-@ General of Anglo @-@ Egyptian Sudan , Sir Lee Stack , was assassinated three weeks later . Despite this , the tour went ahead , and they visited Aden , Kenya , Uganda , and Sudan , but Egypt was avoided because of political tensions . 
