Queen Victoria Biography

Queen Victoria, Royalty

Born as	Alexandrina Victoria
Occup.	Royalty
From	United Kingdom
Born	May 24, 1819 Kensington Palace, London
Died	January 22, 1901 Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Aged	81 years

Victoria was Queen of the UK of Great Britain as well as Ireland from the 20th June 1837 up until her death. Starting in 1876, she additionally made use of the title of Empress of India.

Victoria was birthed as the daughter of and also. From the mommy's first marriage, she had a brother, Prince Karl zu Leiningen (1804-1856), and a sister, Princess Anna Augusta Feodor of Leiningen (1807-1872), wedded Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Until she was 3 she spoke only German, who was her native tongue. She then received direction in English language, and also will later also have exceptional spoken French, Italian, Greek and Latin.

When Victoria was 10 years the death of her uncle, King George IV, childless. His sibling William prospered him on the throne as William IV, but he had no beneficiaries, Victoria was heir to the throne. Her mom feared that somebody would try to toxin or kill Victoria, that was first in the succession line, as well as saw to it that Victoria never went anywhere without a bodyguard, and also relocated her daughter's bed into their room to ensure no person attempted to eliminate her during the night.

As the age of eighteen, rose the throne, Victoria, after his uncle passed away on the 20th June 1837.
Victoria met her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, when she was sixteen. In addition to that they were in the household, they had both concerned the globe making use of the very same physician, Frau Siebold. She proposed to him (because she was the queen, might not he ask her), as well as the wedding celebration occurred on 10 February 1840. Victoria obtained the bourgeois name Wettin, when her other half belonged Wettin branch of the house Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

With its 63 years, 7 months as well as 2 days on the throne, she has ruled longer than any kind of other British majesty, and also is the longest ruling women majesty worldwide. When the British Empire went to its biggest, was quarter of the planet's land area as well as 500 million people under her, as a constitutional head of state. She has called the Victorian era, which describes the social as well as political currents of her regime.

Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Queen.

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15 Famous quotes by Queen Victoria

"Everybody grows but me"

"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one"

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife"

"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can"

"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful"

"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage"

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist"

"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself"

"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them"

"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous"

"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness"

"I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all"

"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting"

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves"

"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous"