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This timeline outlines key moments in the life which Victoria and Albert shared together as well as Victoria’s personal accounts of these events, extracted from her journals. Access the archive here.
- 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...
- Ellie Cawthorne
15 de mar. de 2019 · Feb. 10, 1840: Queen Victoria marries German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, her first cousin. As queen, she was the one to propose. During their 21 years of marriage (until Albert died...
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Queen Victoria of Great Britain (r. 1837-1901) was one of the most loved of all Britain's monarchs. Her longevity, devotion to her role as figurehead of an empire, and recovery from the death of her beloved husband Prince Albert won her a unique status as the ever-present symbol of 19th-century Britain, an era of tremendous political ...
- Mark Cartwright
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15 de may. de 2018 · The pair first met in 1836, when Albert travelled from his native Germany to London for Princess Victoria’s 17th birthday. Though Victoria later wrote to her uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium, thanking him for introducing them and describing Albert as having “the most pleasing and delightful exterior”, she was determined not to rush into marriage.
- Sally Coffey
Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She reigned for more than 60 years, longer than any other British monarch. Her reign was a period of significant...
25 de feb. de 2021 · On 10 February 1840, Queen Victoria married Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (he later took the title of Prince Consort). They were married at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace in London. This was the first marriage of a reigning English Queen since Queen Mary in 1554.
