![]() The last British monarch from the House of Hanover, Victoria was interred at Windsor beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Royal Mausoleum. Her son and successor, King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, were at her deathbed. Image: Gill Hicks, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Victoria held the record of the longest reigning monarch in British history until September 2015 when her second great granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II, finally surpassed her record. The Victorian Era is often remembered as a period of great growth and an expansion of the British Empire. Victoria reigned for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days. Her great grandson, Alexei Romanov of Russia, also suffered from the disease.ĩ. Her youngest son, Leopold, suffered from hemophilia, while two of her daughters were carriers. Often called the “Royal disease,” hemophilia is a blood clotting disorder caused by a mutation in the X chromosome. Victoria was a carrier of the gene that causes hemophilia. She would become known as “the Grandmother of Europe.”Ĩ. ![]() The strategic marriage of her nine children to various royal and noble families led to close ties across Europe. Of her 42 grandchildren, 34 would survive to adulthood. She avoided public appearances and dressed only in black for the rest of her life.ħ. Victoria fell into a deep depression and blamed her son for her husband’s death. He died of typhoid fever on December 14, 1861. ![]() The death of Prince Albert plunged Victoria into deep mourning.Īfter returning from a visit with their son, the Prince of Wales, Albert fell ill. Many of these attempts occurred while she was traveling in an open carriage.Ħ. She survived 8 assassination attempts during her lifetime. But for her wedding, Victoria chose to wear a white dress, an unusual choice for the time.ĥ. Did you know the tradition of wearing a white wedding dress is said to have originated with Queen Victoria? Until then, women often wore their best dress to get married. They were married the following year and together, had nine children. Since she was Queen, Victoria proposed to Albert on October 15, 1839. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert. Victoria’s coronation ceremony was a bit chaotic and the entire service would last five hours.Ĥ. An estimated crowd of 400,000 people came to witness the procession. Her coronation took place on Jat Westminster Abbey. At the age of 18, she succeeded to throne. Victoria detested the system, and upon becoming queen, her first request was to be allowed an hour alone.ģ. She lived by a strict daily schedule isolated from other children and she was never allowed to be apart from her mother. ![]() Victoria was raised under the “Kensington System,” which were a series of strict rules designed by her mother and her attendant, Sir John Conroy. In 1820, her grandfather and her father died within a week of each other and seven years later, her uncle, the Duke of York, passed of dropsy. Upon the death of her uncle King George IV in 1830, Victoria became heiress presumptive to her next surviving uncle, William IV. She was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III.Īt birth, she was fifth in the line of succession, after her father and his three older brothers. ![]() In honor of her birthday, here are some interesting facts about Queen Victoria:ġ. One of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Victoria’s strategic marriage of her nine children to royal and noble families across Europe earned her the nickname, “the Grandmother of Europe.” Do you have royal blood? On this day in 1819, Queen Victoria was born in Kensington Palace in London. ![]()
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