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Mar 3, 2013. #4. redcoat said: The role of the monarch and the nation they ruled changed in the period between the two, Elizabeth I was the monarch of England in her reign and she was the person who made the major decisions, while Victoria who was now the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Empire, was ...
The first letter I chose to focus on is an open letter written to Queen Victoria by Commissioner Lin Zexu in which he requests the end of illegal opium trafficking. The second is a letter written by Lin Zexu and his aid Eleang to the Daoguang Emperor regarding the trade rights of the Portuguese in Macao. Both of these letters give firsthand ...
Jan 10, 2012 · Welsh Marches. Jan 10, 2012. #2. English was her first language, she didn't become fluent in German until later. As often in marriages with people of different nationalities, they would speak in both languages in the domestic circle, but Victoria insisted that they should speak at least as much in English as in German.
Dec 15, 2010 · Dec 15, 2010. #1. Queen Victoria's eldest daughter,who was named Victoria like herself, married Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Prussia, and became Empress of Germany for a few months in 1888. In the 1870's she heard people talking about Karl Marx and his strange ideas, and asked Sir Mounstuart Grant Duff, a British politician with whom she was ...
Jul 12, 2020 · While both her mother, Princess Victoria the Duchess of Kent, and her governess, Luise Lehzen, were German, her mother, whose English was poor, was determined that the young Victoria should speak faultless English in addition to German because of the likelihood of the two people ahead of her in line to the throne dying childless.
Apr 4, 2013 · A little (mostly on-line) reading leads me to believe it is fundamentally historically accurate. Most of the crown heads of Europe were related to Queen Victoria; Edward VII was the uncle of both Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Edward VII had some degree of influence over his nephews and the crown heads of Europe.
Jul 1, 2013 · Queen Victoria you could say was really the first monarch to reign and not Rule. World War 1 saw the the power of the monarchy became even more limited as the King handed over more power to parliament at the end if the War, That you could say what led to the modern Constitutional Monarchy.
May 17, 2013. #2. Royalty had to marry protestant royalty. The protestant thing came in with all the trouble with Charles I, James II, and the Jacobites.There were tons of protestant German states with princes and princesses to marry. Princess Diana was a departure in the she was English aristocracy.
Feb 19, 2015 · Feb 19, 2015. #2. Even though Great Britain never officially had the word "empire" in its official name, it undoubtedly was an empire. It was the largest empire in history both in terms of landmass and population. Wouldn't this question be also applied to Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, and others who were ...
Feb 24, 2020 · Victoria was the daughter of Duke of Kent, the 4th son of George III. He died shortly after Victoria was born. The fifth son, William IV succeeded George IV and left no legitimate heirs. Victoria succeeded William IV as the only child of the Duke of Kent under British laws of succession. The male line was not extinct.
