Queen Victoria interred beside Prince Albert in Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park. With a reign of 63 years, seven months and two days, Victoria was the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-reigning queen regnant in world history until her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II surpassed her on 9 September 2015. She was the last monarch of Britain from the House of Hanover. Her son and successor Edward VII belonged to her husband's House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. According to one of her biographers, Giles St Aubyn, Victoria wrote an average of 2,500 words a day during her adult life. From July 1832 until
Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha The wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ("later Prince Consort") took place on 10 February 1840 at Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, in London. Though queen, as an unmarried young woman Victoria was required by social convention to live with her mother, despite their differences over the Kensington System and her mother's continued reliance on Sir John Conroy. Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to meet her. When Victoria complained to Melbourne that her mother's