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Mourning Card · primary-source record

Queen Victoria

May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901

Died 1901 · mourning postcard from the United Kingdom

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Mourning Card

Date of death

January 22, 1901

Date of birth

May 24, 1819

Age at death

81 years, 7 months, 29 days

Where found

United Kingdom

The mourning card

From the funeral card

VICTORIA, REGINA ET IMPERATRIX.

BORN, MAY 24, 1819.

ACCESSION, JUNE 20, 1837.

DIED, JANUARY 22, 1901.

VICTORIA THE GOOD

"She wrought her people lasting good;

A thousand claims to reverence closed

In her as Mother, Wife and Queen."

- Tennyson

Raphael Tuck & Sons' "Empire" Postcard. No. 1485.

Contributor's notes

Mourning card — Queen Victoria's death, 1901 postcard from United Kingdom written in French

The postcard's French text was not transcribed on the original page; only the page's description of the card is preserved.

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Source & citation

Source type
Photograph & transcription
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-06-12
Permalink
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Image vs transcription
Both — photographs of the postcard and a description on this page

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