Queen Victoria: The Queen Who Led During Big Changes | KS1 History

👑 Step back in time with your Key Stage One students to meet Queen Victoria at her childhood home, Kensington Palace. Learn about the challenges she faced as queen and explore what life was like during the Victorian period.

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📌 In this video:
00:00 Queen Victoria Key facts
00:51 Life in the Victorian period
01:56 What is it like being queen?
02:34 Do you have a big family?
03:16 How do we know about Queen Victoria today?
03:42 Mystery object
04:29 How can we remember Queen Victoria today?

Produced by Three Arrows Media
Performers supplied by History Riot
Queen Victoria played by Érin Geraghty

📷 Images
Queen Victoria by Hubert Herkomer, 1891 © National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

London : a pilgrimage © British Library Collection WF1/1856 after 124

All about the telephone and phonograph © British Library Collection 8765.a.4 front cover

Fun © British Library Collection P.P.5273.c, volume XLII, page 247

London Town © British Library Collection 12805.s.9, page 29

Familiar Scenes for Object Lessons © British Library Collection 14000.r.8 sheet 4

The Royal Family on terrace at Osborne © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust

Queen Victoria’s journals and drawings. Supplied by the Royal Archives | © His Majesty King Charles III 2024

A Passenger Steamer © British Library Collection OIOC Photo 205/(1)

All other images © Historic Royal Palaces