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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. The marriage...
The young Queen Victoria was nervous before her 1840 wedding to Albert, but what she described later was quite at odds with her era’s killjoy puritanism.
After Victoria fell in love with and became engaged to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 15 October 1839, Melbourne helped to push through approval for the marriage in parliament, although with some stumbling blocks, including Victoria's insistence that Albert be made king consort, to which Melbourne asked Victoria "to hear no more of it."
Feb 6, 2018 · The transition in dependence from Melbourne to Albert didn’t happen overnight – not by a long shot – but slowly but surely Victoria came to recognize she could use Albert to lessen her workload and perhaps even more significantly, she was pregnant every 18 months or so for the first decade of her marriage.
Jan 29, 2017 · Just as it happened in real life, Victoria proposed to Albert, and Lord Melbourne accepted that it was time for him to retire and leave the handsome new couple in peace. CLIP: Lord...
The Bedchamber crisis occurred on 7 May 1839 after Whig politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne declared his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a government bill passed by a very narrow margin of only five votes in the House of Commons.
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