Question

Queen Victoria of England ascended to the throne in 1837 and became one of the country’s most successful monarchs, in no small measure because she

waged a successful series of wars with virtually every nation in Europe to wipe out the last vestiges of Marxist thought.
met with her subjects regularly in very informal settings to find out what she could do to help them.
embodied the traits important to the middle class, whose habits of mind we now call Victorian.
returned to the principle of absolutism that had been abandoned by the British monarchy two centuries earlier.
bowed to public pressure and reestablished Roman Catholicism as the state religion of Great Britain.

Answer 1

embodied the traits important to the middle class, whose habits of mind we now call Victorian.

She came to symbolize middle‑class values — respectability, duty, family morality, thrift — and the era named for her reflected those ideals rather than a return to absolutism or religious change.