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How Did Queen Victoria Influence British Parliamentary Government
• Queen Victoria sent Florence Nightingale out to help soldiers.
• Victoria saw great cultural expansion; advances in industry, science

• She exercised some influence over foreign affairs; British parliamentary politics went through a transition.
• She played a crucial role as mediator between arriving and departing prime ministers.

• Queen Victoria’s reign marks the great expansion of the British Empire.
• Queen Victoria was seen as the Grandmother of Europe because of not just her influence on the British Empire but for having family links throughout the royal families.

• She tended to favour measures to improve the poor.
• Queen Victoria was not partisan and she took opportunities to give her opinions sometimes very forcefully.
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