Queen Victoria Essay Research Paper On November

Queen Victoria Essay, Research Paper

On November 6, 1817 Princess Charlotte,

the only heir to the crown of England died. She was the only child of the

Prince Regent and was not a happy women. She was married off to prince

of Orange at the age or 17, but broke off the marriage after falling in

love with Prince Augustus of Prussia. He was already married but she was

unaware and she continued seeing him. After a long time of Prince Leopold

of Saxe-Cobury admiring her, Princess Charlotte gave him a chance and finally

they were married in 1816. Later she got pregnant and for nine months of

doctors told her that she was not in good health to have the baby on November

5, 1817 at nine o’clock in the evening after a 50 hour labor, Princess

Charlotte delivered a dead baby boy. That night she was obviously dying.

The Prince was in her room for hours and left for but a moment when a doctor

came out and told him his wife was dead.

After many controversies between the royal

family about who was to become the heir to the crown there was a female

infant born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24, 1819.

Born Alexandrina Victoria to Victoria Mary

Louisa, daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Cobury-Saalfeld, and Edward Augustus,

duke of Kent and Strathern, the fourth son of George III and youngest brother

of George IV and William IV, both kings of Great Britain.

In January of 1920 the Duke a Kent remembered

a prophecy that a fortune teller told him. The fortune teller said two

members of the royal family would die. The Duke of Kent never would have

thought one of the two members would be him and the other would be his

father George III. The Duke of Kent caught a cold and inflammation of lungs

occurred and he died on January 22 and then six days later his father’s

long, unhappy life was ended. Victoria called Drina by her family was raised

in Kensington Palace and was very spoiled she was idolized by her mother’s

ladies and despite her mother’s strictness about her being spoiled, she

had everything she cloud have wanted. At the age of five, Fraulein Lehzen

came who was the previous governess of Princess Feodoram she helped Drina

learn her letters and she acted like an angel unlike before the arrival

of Fraulein Lehzen when she was naughty and violent.

In 1830 Victoria was told that she was

to become heir to the British crown upon the accession of William IV. This

was to occur because William IV had no legitimate children therefore his

niece was to become queen. In 1833 a few days before Victoria’s eighteenth

birthday and the date of her legal majority the king fell very ill. He

recovered and the Princess had her birthday festivities which was a stale

ball and a drawing room suddenly. Shortly later the King collapsed due

to extreme weakness and everyone knew his death was close at hand. On,

June 18, the King fell very ill and two days later early in the morning

on June 20, 1837 the King saw his final sunset and Princess Victoria had

become Queen Victoria.

The Queen was very unknown to her subjects.

At her public addresses her mother usually spoke. Once the public started

to know her they realized that she was the contrast of her selfish and

ridiculous uncles. Within a month of her rule she moved the royal household

from Kensington to Buckingham Palace. She moved her mother into an entirely

different section of the palace than hers. Then she had a bedroom for Baroness

Lehzen placed right next to hers. Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister of

England for three years. He taught Queen Victoria much about the government

because she was led a sheltered life and knew nothing about the government

and its working. He taught her about the government, told her how to relate

to the people, and advised her on Acts and Bills to be passed. She gained

a clear grasp of constitutional principles and the scope of her own prerogative.

After six months of her depending completely on him their was an election

for the nest Prime Minister. Sir Robert Peel had beaten Lord Melbourne

and he would have to leave the Queen. She was very emotionally upset but

had to now depend on Peel. She disliked him and wrote Melbourne numerous

times for advice. Later Peel was “fired” by the Queen and Lord Melbourne

was again her Prime Minister.

Victoria’s Uncle Leopold had determined

that she would marry her cousin Albert. She told the public that she liked

him very much and that he would make the happy but in her diaries she said

that she didn’t like him and didn’t want to marry him. In fact she told

Lord Melbourne that she had no desire to get married at all. After one

meeting with him her opinion changed and she really liked Albert now. She

then met with him again and they agreed to get married. In 1840 Victoria

married Albert, who was prince of Saxe-Cobury- Gotha. He grew up a

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