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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.
- Victoria Was Born Fifth in Line to The Throne
- Queen Victoria Had An Unhappy Childhood
- Victoria Was only 18 When She Became Queen
- Queen Victoria Proposed to Prince Albert
- Victoria's Marriage Was The First of A Reigning Queen of England in 286 Years
- Queen Victoria Had Nine Children… But She Hated Being Pregnant
- The 1839 'Bedchamber Crisis' Got Queen Victoria Into Trouble
- Queen Victoria Spoke Several Languages
- The Queen's Relationship with Her Prime Ministers Wasn’T Always Easy
- Britain's Imperial Conquests Increased Nearly Fivefold During Victoria's Reign
“Plump as a partridge… more of a pocket Hercules than a pocket Venus”, is how the Duke of Kent described his spirited newborn daughter Princess Victoria when she was born on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace. Yet though she went on to become one of Britain’s most iconic monarchs, Victoria’s birth did not herald national celebration. As the daughter ...
Victoria spent her formative years at Kensington Palace. However, in many ways the palace proved a prison for the princess, and her childhood there was far from rosy. Following her father’s death from pneumonia when she was just eight months old, Victoria’s early life was dominated by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, and her ambitious adviser Sir J...
“I went into my sitting room (only in my dressing gown) alone and saw them. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at twelve minutes past two this morning and consequently that I was Queen.” This is how Victoria recalled the moment that would change her life forever. At 6am on 20 June 1837, the ...
Though as a young woman she had many suitors, a key figure throughout Victoria’s life and reign was her husband, Prince Albertof Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Victoria met the German prince at Kensington Palace when the pair were both just 17. The meeting of Victoria and Albert, who were also first cousins, had been masterminded by Victoria’s uncle, Leopo...
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's wedding, which took place in St James’s Palace chapel on 10 February 1840, was the first marriage of a reigning queen of England since Mary I in 1554. Victoria wore an 18-foot-long train carried by 12 bridesmaids and kicked off a modern-day tradition by wearing white. Outside, the nation erupted into huge public c...
Just over nine months after their wedding, Victoria and Albert’s first child, Princess Victoria, was born at Buckingham Palace. The queen soon after recorded how “after a good many hours suffering, a perfect little child was born… but alas! A girl & not a boy, as we both had so hoped & wished for”. The royal couple’s wishes were granted less than a...
Victoria took the throne at a time when the monarch’s role was intended to be largely apolitical. Yet early in her reign, the inexperienced queen got into hot water for meddling in political matters, in an event termed ‘The Bedchamber Crisis’. The first prime minister of Victoria’s reign was the Whig politician Lord Melbourne, with whom she enjoyed...
Perhaps in part due to her strict schooling under the ‘Kensington system’, Victoria proved herself to be a remarkably adept linguist. As well as being fluent in both English and German, she also spoke French, Italian and Latin. As her mother and governess both hailed from Germany, Victoria grew up speaking the language and at one stage reportedly e...
Over the course of the six decades she sat on the throne, Victoria saw many prime ministers come and go. Yet while she established a remarkably close bond with some, others failed spectacularly to win her favour. Victoria’s first prime minister, Lord Melbourne, was keen to flatter, instruct and influence the young queen from the very beginning. The...
Over the course of her reign, Victoria witnessed a mammoth expansion of the British empire. During her first 20 years on the throne, Britain’s imperial conquests had increased almost fivefold. By the time she died, it was the largest empire the world had ever known and included a quarter of the world’s population. As the monarchy was seen as a foca...
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Feb 6, 2018 · But in Melbourne’s case, styling her as though she was his wife alluded less to a perceived sexual relationship than it did to her showing a clear political preference based on personal bias. So, did she fall in love with him?
Victoria first met Melbourne shortly after she became queen in 1837. He was already serving as Prime Minister under her uncle, King William IV. Upon her accession, Melbourne’s relationship with Victoria quickly evolved from that of a Prime Minister to a monarch, to a mentor and father figure.
Feb 7, 2006 · Royal visits by Victoria’s children to Canada’s west were an opportunity to affirm Victoria’s personal relationship with her subjects. Victoria’s son-in-law, Lord Lorne, was greeted as the “great brother-in-law” by First Nations communities when he travelled across the Prairies in 1881.
Jan 31, 2023 · Unusually for monarchs, Victoria and Albert were of the same age, but as sovereign, the protocol required Victoria to ask Albert to marry her and not vice-versa. He agreed and was eventually given the title Albert, Prince Consort as Victoria remained the outright sovereign.
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Victoria and Albert redefine what it means to be Queen. Victoria, with the assistance of Albert, created a newly visible constitutional monarchy to stem a growing republican movement in Britain.
