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Their mutual affection led to Victoria’s Whig partisanship. On May 7, 1839, during the crisis over the “bedchamber question” (the queen insisted her attendants be Whig ladies), Melbourne resigned but soon resumed office when Peel could not form a government.
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Jan 1, 2013 · To the outside world Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different, writes historian Jane Ridley.
Would his eye turn to other, more comely women in a few years' time, as Lord Melbourne (William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was the prime minister [1835-1841], and the young queen's mentor) had so unkindly suggested? Why did so many people think Albert would interfere politically when it was clear she was the ruler, the one in charge?
Jan 29, 2017 · Although many people have been rooting for Lord Melbourne and Victoria to end up together, history decided a different fate for the pair. Rufus Sewell, the actor who plays Lord M, joins us...
What the people truly want is for Lord Melbourne to come back from the dead and take Victoria away from Albert. Those people have a Tumblr tag. And it is Vicbourne. Since Albert has spent...
Lord Melbourne's tutoring of Victoria took place against a background of two damaging political events: first, the Lady Flora Hastings affair, followed not long after by the Bedchamber Crisis. Victoria's reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when Hastings, one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, developed an abdominal growth that was ...
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But it is true that Victoria was so distraught at the possibility of Melbourne leaving office in 1839 (as is depicted in the ITV series’ second ever episode) that she nearly caused a...
