QUEEN VICTORIA

QUEEN VICTORIA

Victoria lived from 24 May 1819 to 22 January 1901 and was Queen of the United Kingdom from 20 June 1837 until her passing. She was likewise made Empress of India on 1 May 1876. The last ruler of the House of Hanover, she managed for a long time and 7 months, the longest time of rule of any British ruler: and she loaned her name to one of the most particular times of British history, the Victorian period. The more extensive picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. 

Victoria was the lone offspring of the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, who thus was the fourth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. George III's oldest child, the Prince of Wales, just had one kid, and when she kicked the bucket in 1817, the staying unmarried children of George III set out to carry out their responsibility and guarantee the eventual fate of the administration. Despite the fact that 50 years of age, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn wedded Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and their lone youngster, Princess Victoria of Kent, was conceived in Kensington Palace, London, on 24 May 1819. 

Victoria was not exactly a year old when her granddad George III passed on, and her uncle George IV prevailing to the position of royalty. Also, she was eleven when George IV kicked the bucket, to be prevailing by the multi year-old William IV. William had no genuine youngsters, and Victoria unexpectedly wound up to be beneficiary to the position of authority. Accordingly, Parliament passed the Regency Act 1830, stipulating that Victoria's mom, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would go about as Regent if Victoria prevailing to the honored position before she was 18. 

On 20 June 1837, only a month after Victoria's eighteenth birthday celebration, William IV kicked the bucket from cardiovascular breakdown and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. Custom forestalled a female acquiring William's other title of King of Hanover, so this went to another of her uncles. 

On 10 February 1840, Queen Victoria wedded her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: his dad was her mom's sibling. They had initially met when Victoria had been 16. William IV had restricted the possibility of marriage between the two, obviously never again had a state after 1837. Many feel that Albert went into the marriage more for status and obligation than adoration: yet whatever his reasons, theirs demonstrated an upbeat and fruitful marriage with Albert, entitled Prince Consort, turning into Victoria's most significant counsel just as her better half. 

Victoria and Albert had nine youngsters together, the first being Princess Victoria, who was conceived on 21 November 1840. From the get-go in Victoria's pregnancy she was exposed to a death endeavor when Edward Oxford attempted to shoot her while she was riding in a carriage with Albert. The eventual professional killer's shots missed. This set something of a pattern for the remainder of Victoria's rule. There were two further death endeavors in 1842; others in 1849 and 1850, and a last endeavor in 1872. Every included handgun. 

From the get-go in her reign Victoria experienced passionate feelings for Ireland, spending her days off there: and her expressions of love were returned by the Irish individuals. In any case, the potato curse that originally struck in 1845 caused broad starvation, which was exacerbated much by the postponed reaction of the British Government: which took three years to revoke the Corn Laws that forestalled the import of modest grain into Ireland. Over a time of four years, a million Irish passed on of starvation and another million emigrated. Sovereign Victoria by and by gave £5,000 towards starvation alleviation in Ireland: however this must be set nearby the £14,000 raised by Irish fighters serving in India, and $710 and an amount of grain gave by the Choctaw Indians. Victoria made an official visit to Ireland in 1849, yet couldn't fix the harm that had been done to the notoriety of the legislature. 

The starvation was to stamp the beginning of a precarious decrease in Irish respect for the Union. Somewhat along these lines, the Dublin Corporation would not compliment Victoria's child, the Prince of Wales, on his marriage in 1863 and, in 1864, on the introduction of his child. In light of what she saw as Dublin's scorn, Victoria would not visit Ireland, and specifically dismissed exhortation to build up a regal home there. Many feel the position she took contributed extensively to the procedure that would prompt Irish autonomy in 1922. 

Scotland, which had just been visited twice by reigning rulers in the past two centuries, fared fairly better from Victoria's consideration. In 1848 Victoria and Albert took out a long haul rent on Balmoral Castle, in Deeside, which they bought in 1852 for £31,500 and later fundamentally broadened. They at that point spent piece of each Summer in Balmoral, something made conceivable by the happening to the railroads to Britain. 

Sovereign Albert passed on 14 December 1861. Victoria was crushed and entered a semi-changeless condition of grieving that implied she donned dark for a mind-blowing rest. She turned into a close loner, getting known as the "Widow of Windsor". 

Victoria's only relief from her mourning for Albert was offered by the corporate of 1 of her personal servants, John Brown, a Scot who tended the Queen's pony at Balmoral and subsequently becam a private servant wherever she was living. Brown died in 1883, but even during his lifetime there have been raised eyebrows about the closeness of his relationship with the Queen, and a few even remarked Victoria. Indeed there have been later rumours that the 2 had actually married secretly, rumours that came to the fore again when in late 2006 it had been reported that a late senior member of the royalty had said that documents confirming a wedding had a few years earlier turned up within the Royal archives at Windsor, and been destroyed.