Victoria


 * For other meanings, see Victoria.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, more commonly known as Queen Victoria, was a powerful and influential monarch on Earth in the 19th century, ruling from 1837 to 1901. Her reign, known as the Victorian era, was marked by tremendous strides in technology and the arts in Britain and elsewhere. Victoria is known to have met the Doctor at least twice; once during her coronation ceremony in 1838, and in 1879 she experienced an adventure with the Tenth Doctor. The latter led to her effectively banishing the Doctor from her country and to form the Torchwood Institute, as the British Empire's defence against the dark forces with which the Doctor seemed to consort.

Biography
The Third Doctor claimed to have attended Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838. (DW: The Curse of Peladon)

In 1863, the Fifth Doctor was temporarily appointed Queen Victoria's scientific advisor while investigating a recently-discovered rift that appears to lead to the afterlife; it fact, it actually led to another dimension which shaped itself according to the wishes of the inhabitants. (PDA: Empire of Death)

Queen Victoria's late husband Prince Albert had known Sir George MacLeish, the owner of Torchwood House. (WEB: visittorchwood.co.uk)

In 1873, Queen Victoria oversaw the Cygnus, the Draco and the Lynx, which were launched to the Moon. This resulted in the alien life-forms known as the Vrall being unleashed on Earth. The Fifth Doctor had his companion Kamelion pose as a vision of Albert to convince Victoria to abandon space travel. (PDA: Imperial Moon)

Following an adventure with an alien werewolf, the Queen knighted both Rose and the Tenth Doctor for saving her. However, she abruptly had a change of heart and banished the Doctor from the British Empire. Shortly after, she founded the Torchwood Institute, taking the name from the estate where she encountered the Doctor. Despite his having saved her life, Victoria had the Doctor listed as "an enemy of the Crown" in Torchwood's original charter (DW: Tooth and Claw), as related by Yvonne Hartman. (DW: Army of Ghosts) Among other matters, the Queen took an interest in the Cardiff rift. (WEB: torchwood.org.uk)

The Queen seemed very guarded about a bite the werewolf may have given her, leading Rose and the Doctor to jokingly speculate that the werewolf curse was subsequently passed down through the royal line. (DW: Tooth and Claw)

Four years later, in 1883, the being calling itself Josiah Samuel Smith, trained the deranged Redvers Fenn-Cooper as an assassin to kill the Queen. Cooper had an invitation to visit Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen, so Smith saw him as the perfect assassin to kill her, which would enable Smith to take over the throne. Fenn-Cooper believed the monarch to be a wild animal called the "Crowned Saxe-Coburg". (DW: Ghost Light)

Towards the end her life, Queen Victoria met Agnes Havisham before she was cryogenically preserved to act as Torchwood's Assessor. (TWN: Risk Assessment)

Knowledge of the Doctor passed down from one generation of the Royal Family to another following the incident with the werewolf and exile by Queen Victoria, being remembered as far as the 33rd century by Elizabeth X of Starship UK. (DW: The Beast Below)

Parallel Universe
In Pete's World, Queen Victoria still went to Torchwood House. The Werewolf attacked the house and Queen Victoria was killed in this event. It is theorised this was the splitting point that created Pete's World. (REF: Doctor Who: Creatures and Demons)

Minor References
When he mentioned his companion Victoria Waterfield to her, Sarah Jane Smith jokingly suggested to the Fourth Doctor that Queen Victoria had travelled in the TARDIS with him. (DW: Pyramids of Mars).

There was a statue of Queen Victoria in the garden of Harrison Chase mansion. (DW: The Seeds of Doom)