Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria was a very important in the Victorian Era. On this page you will learn about her family, beliefs, husband's death, personal likes, achievements, and death. Queen Victorian was a leader, legend, and a great queen. She was quite different than the other queens as you will see after reading this page. 

 

 

 
FAMILY

Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on the 24 of May 1819. She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent. Her father died only a while after her birth. Her childhood was boring because her mother was very protective. She received a very strict education with her uncle Leopold.At twelve years old, she already knew that she had to become queen. When she was 18 she became heir to the throne. The three uncles who were ahead of her in succession had no lawful children who survived. So that means she was the only person eligible. During her first few years as queen she was influenced by two men, her first prime minister (Lord Melbourne), and her husband/cousin (Prince Albert). On Feb 10th, 1840, only three years after taking the throne she and Albert got married. She and Albert had nine children between 1840-1857. They had four sons and five daughters: Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice. Queen Victoria was devoted to him. Victoria did nothing without her husband's approval. Albert helped her in her royal duties. Albert added a more old-fashioned style to Victoria’s politics.

 

 

For more information on Victoria's family, go to this website.

 

 

 

(Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's marriage) 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                    (Queen Victoria, Prince Albert,

                                                                                                                                                                                       and a few of their Children)

 

 

 

 

BELIEFS

Queen Victoria and Price Albert, believed that the British government should do what it could to help preserve European royal families against revolutionary groups favoring republicanism. This was very important to Victoria and Albert as they were closely related to several of the European royal families that faced the danger of being overthrown. Queen Victoria had very strong beliefs about how women should act, and listen to men. She believed that women should listen to the men's advice. She was againt womens rights.  Here is an example of what she wrote in her diary. " I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety.  Feminists ought to get a good whipping.  Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."

 

 

 Albert

PRINCE ALBERT'S DEATH

It is believed that Prince Albert died of  what was very likely stomach cancer, which is called  typhoid fever, in December of 1861. There was no other reported cases of this illness in the area, so i puzzled the doctors. Victoria continued to carry out her duties such as reading all diplomatic documents. However, she completely withdrew from the public view and spent most of her time in the Scottish Highlands at her home at Balmoral Castle. Victoria even turned down the requests from her government to open Parliament in person. Politicians began to wonder whether Victoria was earning the money that the State paid her. Her popularity was at its lowest by 1870, but it increased from there until her death. While at Balmoral Queen Victoria became very close to John Brown,(a Scottish servant.) Victoria's friendship with Brown caused some rumors to spread that the two had secretly married.  Bertie (one of their nine children) came down with an authentic type of typhoid fever, and nearly died. For weeks the public thought that he was going to die. Then he made a miraculous recovery. 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       (Prince Albert)

 

 

 

PERSONAL LIKES  (QUEEN VICTORIA)

The Queen loved singing. She loved to draw and paint and kept a regular diary throughout her life. As a girl Victoria had a fabulous collection of dolls, while in later life she became fond of the opera and the theatre. Queen Victoria published two books during her lifetime, 'Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands' and 'More Leaves' in 1868 and 1884.

 

 

 

 

VICTORIA'S ACHIEVEMENTS

Queen Victoria is the longest reigning British Monarch. Her long reign made many changes to society; science and technology; her many children and their foreign marriages brought Britain connections with virtually every European monarchy, while the British empire reached its grandest point. During the reign, the British empire doubled in size.                                                                                     

 

Victoria restored the reputation of the monarchy. (Which was unpopular at the time of her regin)  By the end of the reign, with the advances in Empire, the monarchy was held high once again. Most of this happned because of Victoria and her husband. (Albert)

 

 It was also a very peaceful reign. Even though there were problems in the Empire, British forces were only involved in one European war, the Crimean War (1854-56).

 

 In British society, moves were made to improve the life of the ordinary man and woman. More people than ever before were allowed to vote, while the 1842 Mines Act prevented women and children from working underground. An Education Act and a Public Health Act were passed and there were laws limiting the total length of time anyone should work in the day to 10 hours. These Acts and more were passed and carried out by the ten Prime Ministers who served Queen Victoria during her reign. Britain moved towards the 'constitutional monarchy'. (where the king or queen reigns according to the advice of an elected Parliament)

 

 One of Prince Albert's great achievements was the Great Exhibition, held in 1851. This was a huge fair in which people from all over the world displayed the latest technologies. The exhibition made a great deal of money and this was used to buy a large area of land in Kensington, London, on which buildings were built to encourage science and technology. 

 

 In the late 1890's the Anglo-Boer War was about to begin in South Africa, embarrassing the nation by showing how difficult it was to win and control colonies in a beginning age of nationalism. In her older years, Victoria, calling herself a soldier's daughter, went out, although wheelchair-bound by age and frailty, to bid departing troops farewell.

 

 

 

VICTORIA'S DEATH

The war was still ongoing when, Queen Victoria was attacked by a series of small strokes. Queen Victoria died in January of 1901. But Oueen Victoria's simple way of life, and her small view of the Crown, had taken part in her death. After a reign of sixty three years (the date is not sure). She died in her palace in Osborne when she was eighty one years old. Her death was a terrible loss for the country. Queen Victoria was survived by 6 children, 40 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WORKS CONSULTED 

 
"Excerpts from Queen Victoria's Journal and Personal Correspondence." Victorian Station. 
 
1999-2001. Victorian Station. 14 February 2008.
 
 
"Lycoming College and the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra Present Victoria's Music.'"
 
Lycoming College. 2 March 2008.

 

<http://www.lycoming.edu/whatsnew/releases/2004/Victoria's%20music.htm>

 
"Kings and Queens of the United Kingdom - Queen Victoria." History of the Monarchy.
 
2006. The Royal Collection. 2 March 2008.
 
 
"Queen Victoria's Empire." PBS Empires. PBS. 29 February 2008.
 

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