Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876; she used the additional title of Empress of India. 1860.

Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era.

Benjamin Disraeli; 1st Earl of Beaconsfield; KG; PC; FRS; (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative politician; writer and aristocrat who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party; defining its policies and its broad outreach.

Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs; his political battles with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone; and his one-nation conservatism or 'Tory democracy'. He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He remains; as of 2015; the only British Prime Minister of Jewish (Sephardic) birth. Pictures From History