Ummm ... Nice try, Indie Singer, but somehow I think 1901 is more like it for Queen Victoria to have kicked the bucket. Our present Queen was born in 1926, but that doesn't fit the clue.
It wasn't "1926 YRVD", was it, by any chance? 'Cos then it might be "1926 the year Rudolph Valentino died". (In case the name means nothing to you, he was a 'great' of the silent-movie era.)