During the last few years of her life she suffered from rheumatism, failing eyesight and a tendency to aphasia. On 15 Jan. 1901 she drove out for the last time, and from that day gradually sank till the 22d, when she peacefully passed away at 6.30 P.M. in the presence of all her surviving children except her eldest daugh ter, who was slowly dying in Germany. Her reign of 63 years, seven months and two days is the longest in English history, and she out lived all previous British sovereigns, being at her death three days older than George III.. Her remains rest in a sarcophagus in Frogmore mausoleum, besides those of her husband. Dur ing the later years of her life she spent ranch of her time abroad and at Balmoral and Osborne, and never remained in London for any length of tizne. Several attempts were made upon her life at various times, but none of them was of any significance or importance. In 1868 she issued 'Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands,' and in 1883 'More Leaves'— both being very unpretentious little works corresponding with their titles. She also supervised the publication (1868) of (The Early Years of His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort,' and in 1874-80 supervised another life of her late husband.
To Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were born four sons and five daughters: Victoria Adelaide Maria Louisa, Princess Royal, born 21 Nov. 1840, married 25 Jan. 1858, Frederidc, afterward Icing of Prussia and German em peror, died 5 Aug. 1901; Albert Edward, after ward Edward VII, born 9 Nov. 1841, married 10 March 1863, Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louisa Julia, eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, died 6 May 1910; Alice Maud Mary, born 25 April 1843, married 1 July 1862, the Grand Duke of Hesse, died 14 Dec. 1878; Alfred Ernest, Duke of
Edinburgh, born 6 Aug. 1844, married 23 Jan. 1874, the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, be came Duke of Saxe-Coburg 22 Aug. 1893, died 30 July 1900; Helen Augusta Victoria, born 25 May 1846, married 5 July 1866, Prince Frederick Christian of Scheswig-Holstein, died 2,8 Oct. 1917; Louise Caroline Alberta, born 18 March 1848, married 21 March 1871, the Marquis of Lorne, afterward Duke of Argyle; Arthur Wil liam Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, born 1 May 1850, married 13 March 1879, Princess Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes of Prussia; Leopold, Duke of Albany, born 7 April 1853, married 27 April 1882, Princess Helen of Waldeck, dicd 28 March 1884; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, born 14 April 1857, married 23 July 1885, Prince Henry Maurice of Batten berg. Six of the queen's children survived her, and of the nine all but the Duchess of Argyle had issue. At the time of her death she had 31 grandchildren, and of her great-grand children there were 37.
Biographies and sketches of Queen Victoria in great numbers are accessible everywhere. Among them may be mentioned Arnold, 'Victoria, Qupen and Empress: the Sixty Years' (1897) ; Benson, A. C., and Esher, Viscount, 'Letters of Queen Victoria' (1837-61; 1908) ; Esher, (Girlhood of Queen Victoria) (1912) ; Gurney, (Childhood of Queen Victoria' (1901) ; Holmes, (Queen Victoria' (1901) ; the series by Clare Jerrold,