However, her father, Edward, Duke of Kent, died shortly after she was born. As his only child, she became an heir to the throne. She became queen at the age of 18 years old. This area is now part of Germany. The Queen herself was of German descent. Within the next 21 years, before she was 42 years of age, the couple had nine children. Unfortunately, Prince Albert passed away in at the young age of Understandably, Queen Victoria mourned for quite a long time and secluded herself for many years.
She was in serious mourning and wore black as a symbol for the rest of her life. Perhaps people thought this made her surly and stern; however, doing so showed how much she was dedicated to the love for her husband. She became an Indophile in part because of her affection for him. Victoria died after a lengthy period of poor health on January 22, , at the age of We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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In the Scottish throne went to Mary, Queen of Scots, a controversial monarch who became France's queen consort and claimed the English crown. She was executed by Queen Elizabeth I in Prince Albert married his first cousin, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, at the age of 20, and after his untimely death at age 42, the queen's memory of him guided her for the next 40 years.
Victoria Beckham rose to fame in the s as a member of the Spice Girls. She is also known for her successful fashion empire and her marriage to former soccer star David Beckham. He was succeeded by Queen Elizabeth II in Her father died of pneumonia in , when Victoria was less than a year old, and she was raised primarily at Kensington Palace, where she lived with her mother, the German-born Victoria Saxe-Saalfield-Coburg, duchess of Kent.
Instead, Victoria relied on the counsel of her beloved uncle Leopold, as well as her governess Louise afterward the Baroness Lehzen, a native of Coburg. When she became queen and moved to Buckingham Palace, Victoria exiled her mother to a distant set of apartments and fired Conroy.
Hemophilia, a blood clotting disorder caused by a mutation on the X chromosome, can be passed along the maternal line within families; men are more likely to develop it, while women are usually carriers.
Sufferers can bleed excessively, since their blood does not properly coagulate, leading to extreme pain and even death. Accused of high treason, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Tory Robert Peel stepped forward to become prime minister, on one condition: he requested that Victoria dismiss some of her existing household — who largely held Whig sympathies and were loyal to Melbourne — and replace them with Tory ladies.
The queen had already been criticised for her over-reliance on Lord Melbourne, and now she was widely condemned for being not just politically partisan, but unconstitutional. As her mother and governess both hailed from Germany, Victoria grew up speaking the language and at one stage reportedly even had a German accent, which had to be erased by tutors. Although Albert was fluent in English, he and Victoria could often be heard talking — and indeed arguing — in German when in private.
Later in life, Victoria also experimented with some of the languages from across her vast empire. 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.
Over the course of her reign, Victoria witnessed a mammoth expansion of the British empire. The queen herself took a great interest in imperial affairs. The queen had pushed for the title for several years, but, concerned about its absolutist connotations, Disraeli had been hesitant to agree.
By , however, Victoria had become so insistent he felt he could not resist any longer, for fear of offending her. Over the course of their year marriage, Victoria and Albert raised nine children together. Kaiser Wilhelm reportedly remarked that had his grandmother still been alive, the First World War may never have happened, as she simply would not have allowed her relatives to go to war with one another. It is believed that the queen was a carrier of haemophilia and had unwittingly introduced the rare inherited disease into her bloodline.
Over subsequent generations the condition resurfaced in royal families across the continent. Listen: Deborah Cadbury shows how Queen Victoria sought to influence the future of Europe through the marriages of her descendants, on this episode of the HistoryExtra podcast :. During the course of her year-long reign, Victoria came out unscathed from at least six serious attempts on her life, some of which were terrifyingly close calls.
In June , while four months pregnant with her first child, Victoria was shot at while on an evening carriage ride with Prince Albert. For a moment it seemed as though the queen had been hit, but Albert spurred the driver to speed away to safety and the would-be assassin, Edward Oxford, was apprehended. Oxford — who was later acquitted on grounds of insanity — proved to be the first of many to target the queen while she was driving in her open-top carriage.
In , as the carriage slowed down to pass through the gates of Buckingham Palace, retired soldier Robert Pate ran forward and managed to strike the queen sharply on the head with a small cane. Although it transpired that the cane weighed less than three ounces, so could not have done much damage, the incident nonetheless unnerved Victoria.
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