Victoria

Victoria
noun /viktɔɹiːə/
a) A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).

Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious. Let us hope, and we have reason to hope, that the Queen will nationalize that of Victoria, and make it the theme of song and history with that of Elizabeth.

b) One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.

George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.

See Also: Queen Victoria, Victorian, Vickey, Vicki, Vickie, Vicky

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