[229] There is no documentary evidence of a haemophiliac in connection with Victoria's mother, and as male carriers always suffer the disease, even if such a man had existed he would have been seriously ill.[230] It is more likely that the mutation arose spontaneously because Victoria's father was over 50 at the time of her conception and haemophilia arises more frequently in the children of older fathers. 42–43, Kalakaua to his sister, 24 July 1881, quoted in Greer, Richard A. As expected, Francis shot at her, but he was seized by plainclothes policemen, and convicted of high treason. [141], On the last day of February 1872, two days after the thanksgiving service, 17-year-old Arthur O'Connor, a great-nephew of Irish MP Feargus O'Connor, waved an unloaded pistol at Victoria's open carriage just after she had arrived at Buckingham Palace. Outside Scotland, the blazon for the shield—also used on the Royal Standard—is: Quarterly: I and IV, Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III, Azure, a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland). This was the happiest day of my life! Brown". 282–284, Hibbert, pp. Britain's Queen Victoria's sordid love affairs and astonishingly high sexual libido have been unveiled in a new TV documentary. Their living descendants include Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Harald V of Norway; Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden; Margrethe II of Denmark; and Felipe VI of Spain. 323–324; Marshall, pp. [209] She was the last monarch of Britain from the House of Hanover. She was named after Queen Victoria’s favourite, and youngest, child, Princess Beatrice, who was born 20 years into the monarch’s marriage with Prince Albert. 153–155; Woodham-Smith, pp. [133] Disraeli's ministry only lasted a matter of months, and at the end of the year his Liberal rival, William Ewart Gladstone, was appointed prime minister. [221] They, and others, conclude that as a person Victoria was emotional, obstinate, honest, and straight-talking. The Queen requested that any special celebrations be delayed until 1897, to coincide with her Diamond Jubilee,[190] which was made a festival of the British Empire at the suggestion of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain. 101–102, Hibbert, p. 42; Longford, pp. To the King's annoyance, Victoria was enthusiastically welcomed in each of the stops. [218] Only after the release of her diary and letters did the extent of her political influence become known to the wider public. 287–290, Hibbert, pp. Both Hamilton and Pate were sentenced to seven years' transportation. [150] Disraeli also pushed the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, so that Victoria took the title "Empress of India" from 1 May 1876. [224] In 1867, Walter Bagehot wrote that the monarch only retained "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn". 108–109; St Aubyn, pp. [179][180][181] Her family and retainers were appalled, and accused Abdul Karim of spying for the Muslim Patriotic League, and biasing the Queen against the Hindus. [204] On 25 January, Edward, Wilhelm and her third son, the Duke of Connaught, helped lift her body into the coffin. [137] In late November 1871, at the height of the republican movement, the Prince of Wales contracted typhoid fever, the disease that was believed to have killed his father, and Victoria was fearful her son would die. [58], Albert became an important political adviser as well as the Queen's companion, replacing Melbourne as the dominant influential figure in the first half of her life. 60–66; Weintraub, p. 62, Hibbert, pp. [79][80] In January 1847 she personally donated £2,000 (equivalent to between £178,000 and £6.5 million in 2016[81]) to the British Relief Association, more than any other individual famine relief donor,[82] and also supported the Maynooth Grant to a Roman Catholic seminary in Ireland, despite Protestant opposition. "[197], Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided. 160–161, Hibbert, p. 130; Longford, p. 154; Marshall, p. 122; St Aubyn, p. 159; Woodham-Smith, p. 220, Hibbert, p. 149; Longford, p. 154; Marshall, p. 123; Waller, p. 377, Hibbert, pp. [154], Between April 1877 and February 1878, she threatened five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin. At the time, it was customary for the prime minister to appoint members of the Royal Household, who were usually his political allies and their spouses. [98][219] Biographies of Victoria written before much of the primary material became available, such as Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria of 1921, are now considered out of date. Prince Edward Island in Canada was named after Victoria's father. 102–103; St Aubyn, pp. 303–304; Waller, pp. He was "the dearest of my dear sons", she lamented. 1848), Arthur (b. He possesses every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy. She remarked "I will be good." [134], In 1870 republican sentiment in Britain, fed by the Queen's seclusion, was boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic. [222] Contrary to popular belief, her staff and family recorded that Victoria "was immensely amused and roared with laughter" on many occasions. 35–38, 118–119; St Aubyn, pp. 1841), Alice (b. [217] She experienced unpopularity during the first years of her widowhood, but was well liked during the 1880s and 1890s, when she embodied the empire as a benevolent matriarchal figure. [201] Her son and successor, King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II, were at her deathbed. Beatrice transcribed and edited the diaries covering Victoria's accession onwards, and burned the originals in the process. Our current Queen, Queen Elizabeth II is a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. 15–29, Hibbert, pp. Victoria's father died in January 1820, when Victoria was less than a year old. [89] At the height of a revolutionary scare in the United Kingdom in April 1848, Victoria and her family left London for the greater safety of Osborne House,[90] a private estate on the Isle of Wight that they had purchased in 1845 and redeveloped. [195] By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable. Her arms have been borne by all of her successors on the throne. [46] At first, Lady Flora refused to submit to an intimate medical examination, until in mid-February she eventually agreed, and was found to be a virgin. 554–555; St Aubyn, p. 555, Hibbert, pp. For example, about a month after Leopold's birth Albert complained in a letter to Victoria about her "continuance of hysterics" over a "miserable trifle". 311–312; Longford, p. 347; St Aubyn, p. 369, Hibbert, p. 318; Longford, p. 401; St Aubyn, p. 427; Strachey, p. 254, Longford, p. 381; St Aubyn, pp. [38] Her coronation took place on 28 June 1838 at Westminster Abbey. [149] She preferred short, simple services, and personally considered herself more aligned with the presbyterian Church of Scotland than the episcopal Church of England. 55–65, quoted in Hibbert p. 217; Packard, pp. [94] She found particularly offensive the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, who often acted without consulting the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, or the Queen. [32], Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided. 164–166, Hibbert, pp. 388–389, Hibbert, p. 427; Marshall, p. 176; St Aubyn, p. 389, Hibbert, pp. [4] The Prince Regent had no surviving children, and the Duke of York had no children; further, both were estranged from their wives, who were both past child-bearing age, so the two eldest brothers were unlikely to have any further legitimate children. The queen found herself shouldering some … [231] Spontaneous mutations account for about a third of cases.[232]. She is best friends with Nathan Prescott, Taylor Christensen, and Courtney Wagner. My poor darling Affie gone too", she wrote in her journal. Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. [91] Demonstrations by Chartists and Irish nationalists failed to attract widespread support, and the scare died down without any major disturbances. Many Tories—by then known also as Conservatives—were opposed to the repeal, but Peel, some Tories (the "Peelites"), most Whigs and Victoria supported it. [143] As a result of the incident, Victoria's popularity recovered further. Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. [213] After Victoria's death, her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, was appointed her literary executor. Queen Victoria is the great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Many of the Queen's ladies of the bedchamber were wives of Whigs, and Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. [119] She entered a state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of her life. While Victoria inherited all the British Dominions, her father's unpopular younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland, became King of Hanover. [203], In 1897, Victoria had written instructions for her funeral, which was to be military as befitting a soldier's daughter and the head of the army,[98] and white instead of black. 161–164; Marshall, p. 129; St Aubyn, pp. [15] Similar journeys to other parts of England and Wales were taken in 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835. [16] William compared the journeys to royal progresses and was concerned that they portrayed Victoria as his rival rather than his heir presumptive. [109] The Queen felt "sick at heart" to see her daughter leave England for Germany; "It really makes me shudder", she wrote to Princess Victoria in one of her frequent letters, "when I look round to all your sweet, happy, unconscious sisters, and think I must give them up too – one by one. 51–52; St Aubyn, p. 43; Weintraub, pp. The procession paused for an open-air service of thanksgiving held outside St Paul's Cathedral, throughout which Victoria sat in her open carriage, to avoid her having to climb the steps to enter the building. Russell's ministry, though Whig, was not favoured by the Queen. 338–341; Woodham-Smith, pp. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. The Regency Act 1830 made special provision for Victoria's mother to act as regent in case William died while Victoria was still a minor. The Prime Minister at once became a powerful influence on the politically inexperienced Queen, who relied on him for advice. Over 400,000 visitors came to London for the celebrations. Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Empire from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. [41], At the start of her reign Victoria was popular,[42] but her reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy. [10] The Duchess avoided the court because she was scandalised by the presence of King William's illegitimate children. Back to the top. 101–102, Longford, p. 122; Marshall, p. 57; St Aubyn, p. 104; Woodham-Smith, p. 180, Hibbert, p. 83; Longford, pp. Reforms of the voting system increased the power of the House of Commons at the expense of the House of Lords and the monarch. The Duke and Duchess of Kent's only child, Victoria, was born at 4:15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. [164], On 17 March 1883, Victoria fell down some stairs at Windsor, which left her lame until July; she never fully recovered and was plagued with rheumatism thereafter. Hibbert, p. 27; Longford, pp. 63–65, Hibbert, pp. [128], Palmerston died in 1865, and after a brief ministry led by Russell, Derby returned to power. 249–250; Woodham-Smith, pp. [70], On 29 May 1842, Victoria was riding in a carriage along The Mall, London, when John Francis aimed a pistol at her, but the gun did not fire. She serves as the tertiary antagonist in Life is Strange: Season 1. Victoria's links with Europe's royal families earned her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe". Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. 92, 102, Hibbert, pp. In November, Albert was made aware of gossip that his son had slept with an actress in Ireland. Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901), Generations are numbered by descent from the first, Hibbert, pp. 168–169; St Aubyn, pp. [27] According to her diary, she enjoyed Albert's company from the beginning. [98][207] Items of jewellery placed on Victoria included the wedding ring of John Brown's mother, given to her by Brown in 1883. ... to be called by names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before – was bliss beyond belief! 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The Queen had a relatively balanced view of the conflict, and condemned atrocities on both sides. "It is a horrible year, nothing but sadness & horrors of one kind & another. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism in the United Kingdom temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. [191] The prime ministers of all the self-governing Dominions were invited to London for the festivities. As Victoria was riding in a carriage, Pate struck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead. [186], Gladstone returned to power after the 1892 general election; he was 82 years old. "If we are to maintain our position as a first-rate Power", she wrote, "we must ... be Prepared for attacks and wars, somewhere or other, CONTINUALLY. 354–355, Hibbert, pp. She marked the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June with a banquet to which 50 kings and princes were invited. 150–156; Marshall, p. 87; St Aubyn, pp. Queen Victoria’s children. Oh! 48, 63–64, Marshall, p. 210; Waller, pp. 143–147, Greville quoted in Hibbert, p. 67; Longford, p. 70 and Woodham-Smith, pp. 186–190; Woodham-Smith, pp. In what became known as the bedchamber crisis, Victoria, advised by Melbourne, objected to their removal. 88–89, 102, Hibbert, pp. Longford, pp. 328–331, Hibbert, pp. 94–96; Marshall, pp. [71] Edward Oxford felt that the attempts were encouraged by his acquittal in 1840. 175, 187; St Aubyn, pp. 437–438; Longford, pp. She went by the nickname "Drina" while growing up. Her son and successor Edward VII belonged to her husband's House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. [193], The Queen's Diamond Jubilee procession on 22 June 1897 followed a route six miles long through London and included troops from all over the empire. [62] He was tried for high treason, found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to an insane asylum indefinitely, and later sent to live in Australia. 107–110; St Aubyn, pp. [176] By this time, Victoria was once again extremely popular. She was so impressed by the relief it gave from the pain of childbirth that she used it again in 1857 at the birth of her ninth and final child, Beatrice, despite opposition from members of the clergy, who considered it against biblical teaching, and members of the medical profession, who thought it dangerous. 12–13; Longford, p. 23; Woodham-Smith, pp. 359–361; Woodham-Smith, pp. [14], In 1830, the Duchess of Kent and Conroy took Victoria across the centre of England to visit the Malvern Hills, stopping at towns and great country houses along the way.
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