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Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1st Baronet, KCH (21 October 1786 – 2 March 1854) was a British Army officer who served as comptroller to the Duchess of Kent and her young daughter, Princess Victoria, the future Queen of the United Kingdom.
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21 de oct. de 2019 · Victoria was constantly surrounded by John Conroy, but also his children. Victoria became quite resentful at being obliged to spent time with Victoire Conroy, whom she considered to be her social inferior.
John Ponsonby Conroy (1786-1854) fue un oficial del ejército británico que ejerció como administrador de la duquesa de Kent y su hija, la futura reina Victoria del Reino Unido . Conroy nació en Gales de padres irlandeses, y tras ir escalando puestos en el mundo militar, se convirtió en caballerizo del príncipe Eduardo de Kent en 1817.
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29 de mar. de 2011 · During a serious illness in 1835, the Duchess of Kent and Sir John Conroy attempted, among other schemes, to convince Victoria that she would not be fit to rule until she was aged 21...
5 de mar. de 2023 · Her widowed mother was lonely and depended utterly on John Conroy – a servant of her former husband who was bent on power. A portrait of Princess Victoria and her mother Victoria, Duchess of...
31 de mar. de 2021 · Victoria’s father died when she was a child, and her ambitious mother allied herself with the scheming Sir John Conroy, a member of the royal household who seized the chance to gain power and...
In control of the pliable duchess, Conroy hoped to dominate the future queen of Britain as well. Persuaded by Conroy that the royal dukes, “the wicked uncles,” posed a threat to her daughter, the duchess reared Victoria according to “the Kensington system,”….
