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Queen Victoria: Fact or Fiction?

This document provides 15 facts about Queen Victoria and indicates that one of the facts is a lie. The facts relate to her family relationships, actions during the Irish potato famine, assassination attempts, mourning period after her husband's death, and role in the royal family's health history. Readers are prompted to discuss which fact they think is untrue using phrases from a provided list to help structure their analysis.

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Queen Victoria: Fact or Fiction?

This document provides 15 facts about Queen Victoria and indicates that one of the facts is a lie. The facts relate to her family relationships, actions during the Irish potato famine, assassination attempts, mourning period after her husband's death, and role in the royal family's health history. Readers are prompted to discuss which fact they think is untrue using phrases from a provided list to help structure their analysis.

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Ā Queen Vįctoria: Fifteen facts and one lie!


1 A|l of these facts about Oueen Victoria are true _ except for one. Read the facts and dīscuss
which one is nottrue. Use the phrases in the box to help you.

l'm fairly sure that ... is true. lt must be true. lt can't be true. lt might be true. What about ...?
Why do you think that? lf X is true, Y can't be. I just don't believe it. I'm not sure about ...

b Her husband's
c
father wās her uncle

She loved lreland


and donated f2.000 of
her own rnoney to help in
the potato famine.

-'i .
A young man once
:

tried to shoot her wįth .

a gun loaded with paper


and tobacco.

I She became known


as the 'Famine Oueen' and
was much criticized for
allowing the lrish to She wore black
starve. from Albertls'death
in 1861 until she
died in 1901.

P She was the first


known carrier of *when your blood does not thicken as it
haemophilia* in the should, for example, when you cut yourself
royal family.

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