Meaningful friendly relationships were those with John Brown (Victoria’s Scottish servant and closest friend) and Abdul Karim (Victoria’s servant from India and closest friend).For the rest of her reign, she wore black. Victoria was devastated, sleeping with a plaster cast of his hand by her side, and went into a 25-year seclusion. Victoria’s beloved Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861 at the age of 42.Prince Albert became Victoria’s strongest ally, helping her navigate difficult political waters. The couple was intensely devoted to each other.Victoria and Albert had nine children together.

So, she proposed to him on October 15, 1839. The couple met when Victoria was just 16 their uncle Leopold suggested they marry – Since Victoria was queen, Albert couldn’t propose to her. In 1840, Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the son of her mother’s brother.The Victorian Era: life in Britain during the 19th century was known as Victorian England because of Victoria’s long reign and the charismatic imprint that she left in her kingdom and outside the country.One of the major factors that helped Britain from avoiding European entanglements was the marriage of Victoria’s children: either directly or by marriage, she was related to the royal houses of nearly every major European power.The Queen was emblematic of the time: an enthusiastic supporter of the British Empire, which stretched across the globe and earned the adage: “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” During Victoria’s reign, Britain expanded its imperial reach, doubling in size and encompassing Canada, Australia, India and various possessions in Africa and the South Pacific.After Queen Elizabeth II, Victoria is the second-longest reigning British monarch – Victoria’s reign saw great cultural expansion advances in industry, science and communications and the building of railways and the London Underground. Queen Victoria served as monarch of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901.I had never realised how inter- related they all were! Purchaser at Romsey Abbey.įamily trees 16 ORDER QUEEN VICTORIA’S FAMILY TREES Queen Victoria’s Family Trees £12.

The last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna (born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine), was a granddaughter, while her sister Victoria of Hesse was the mother of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the maternal grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.Ī lovely book: the Gift Shop at the Queen’s Sandringham estate, Norfolk. The kings of Romania and Yugoslavia were also descended from Victoria and Albert, and the last Kaiser of Germany was their eldest grandchild. Those children’s children and grandchildren were encouraged to intermarry, and from them descend the Royal Families of Britain, Greece, Spain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Within six months she had married him and was pregnant with the first of their nine children. Twenty years later, the young Queen Victoria was completely bowled-over by her handsome cousin and wrote in her diary that he was ‘beautiful’. Her mother and his father were sister and brother.

In 1819 Princess Victoria of Kent and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha were born within three months of each other. The Bare Bones of Queen Victoria’s Family Trees: Her Children and Grandchildren

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