Princess Victoria inherited the English throne at the age of 18 years after the death of the last of the Hanoverian dynasty male – Kings George IV and William IV, leaving no heirs.  June 20, 1837 she came to the throne, and her coronation took place in Westminster Abbey on June 28, 1838. The house and yard management Victoria has fully entrusted her former educator Baroness Leisen. In the management she was helped the former secretary of her mother’s brother Leopold, Baron Shtokmar, a confidant of the family of Saxe-Coburg. Domestic policy was entrusted to the leader of the Whig the Prime Minister of Melbourne. Queen Victoria has become one of the biggest iconic figures in British history, along with William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The time of her reign has created a set of historical concepts such as “Victorianism”, “Victorians”, “Victorian era”. There is also a “Victorian morality”, “Victorian families,” “Victorian architecture”.
For 64 years of the reign of the Queen Victoria, Britain has experienced extraordinary political, economic and cultural progress. In the country there were constructed street lights, sidewalks, sanitation and hygiene, water supply and sewerage, underground.  At that time, there were invented and widely spread kitchen equipment cans, photography, music boxes and mechanical pianos, toys, postcards. In the Victorian era there were introduced a theatrical celebration of Christmas and the practice of presenting Christmas gifts.