Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

INDEX
Introduction
How was Queen Victoria?
Anecdotes
Curiosities
Films about the Queen

INTRODUCTION
Queen Victoria was born on the 24th of May 1819 and died on the 22nd of January 1901.
She was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her reign lasted 63 years and 7 months, the longest of any female monarch in history.
Queen Victoria married her cousin, the German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, when she was 21. They had 9 children and 42 grandchildren.
Queen Victoria was survived by 6 children, 40 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren, including four future sovereigns of England: Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI.
Her nickname was “the grandmother of Europe” because most of her children and grandchildren married into royal and noble families across the continent.


HOW WAS QUEEN VICTORIA?
She was a serious woman with great sense of authority and the family returned and prestige living symbol of social and economic successes achieved to the crown. She widowed in 1861. On the religious level she was very tolerant and as supreme head of the English and Scottish churches, avoided any confrontation between them. She also protected the Catholics, eternal losers in Protestant England.
Victoria had blue eyes, brown hair and at first she was thin but then became overweight.
She had a silvery voice and enunciated excellently .
She had a radiant , though rare, smile.
Queen Victoria was 5 foot (1.52 m) tall.
Queen Victoria loved singing and she enjoyed painting and drawing. She loved going to the opera.

ANECDOTES
Victoria met Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha when she was just sixteen. After their first meeting, she wrote: "[Albert] is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same colour as mine; his eyes are large and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful." They were married on the 10th of February 1840.
During Victoria's first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother. The Queen hated being pregnant. She thought newborn babies were ugly. However, she and Albert had nine children.

CURIOSITIES
Both Queen Elizabeth, the Queen today, and her consort (as her husband is known), the Duke of Edinburgh, are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
Victoria's first language was German. At three years old she learnt to speak English and French. Later she learnt to speak Hindustani because she was the ruler of India as well.
People didn’t use to wear white to their wedding. It was queen Victoria of England who wore a beautiful white dress when she got married to prince Albert. As a result, wearing this colour became fashionable in all Europe where some women even used to wear black for their own weddings occasions.
For her funeral, London was festooned in purple and white because the Queen hated black funerals.Queen Victoria survived many assassination attempts, seven exactly.
After Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria wore black for the rest of her reign and became known as the “Widow of Windsor” because she avoided London and public appearance, and spent most of her time at Balmoral Castle, Osborne House and Windsor Castle.


FILMS ABOUT THE QUEEN