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Originally Posted by thinreadline
... George IV was succeeded by his brother William IV rather than by Victoria though.
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Correct, I keep forgetting him since he wasn't around very long...he ruled 1830-37.
Alexandrina Victoria became Queen in 1837, starting the Alexandrinian age, er, somehow she became just Victoria on accession, so we think of her reign as Victorian'. (Probably too much of a mouthful, she was known as 'Drina' until she was crowned and finally broke free from her mother and insisted on being called 'Victoria'. The Drinian age would have sounded a bit odd.)
Anyhow, wood would (
) be better, the golden translucent fibrous horn of an overweight bellicose African herbivore on the endangered species list would not be PC.