Term Papers on Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and she died in 1901.
She was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901).
Queen Victoria was born Alexandrina Victoria on May 24,
1819, in Kensington Palace, London. Victoria’s mother
was Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of the duke of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Her father was Edward Augustus,
duke of Kent and Strathern, the fourth son of George III
and youngest brother of George IV and William IV, they
were kings of Great Britain. Because William IV had no
legal children, his niece Victoria became inheritor apparent
to the British crown upon his accession in 1830. On June
20, 1837, with the expiration of William IV. Victoria
became queen at the age of 18. Early in her power Victoria
developed a serious concern with goings on of state,
guided by her first prime minister, William Lamb, 2nd
Viscount Melbourne. Melbourne was leader of that wing of
the Whig Party that later became known as the Liberal
Party. He exercised a immovably progressive command on
the political thinking of the sovereign. Marriage In 1840
Victoria married her first cousin, Albert, ruler of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who she had known for about four
years. Although this was a wedlock of state, it was a highly
extravagant and prosperous one, and Victoria was devoted
to her family responsibilities. The first of their nine children
was Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, later queen of
Germany. Their first son, Albert Edward, prince of Wales
and later monarch of Great Britain as Edward VII, was
born in 1841. When the cautious Prince Albert persuaded
her that Liberal policy jeopardized the coming of the
Crown, the queen began to lose her eagerness for the
party. After 1841, when the Melbourne government fell
and Sir Robert Peel became prime minister, Victoria was
an enthusiastic supporter of the Conservative Party. Also
under Albert's influence, she began to interrogation the
tradition that restricted the British ruling to an advisory part.
In 1850 she challenged the command of Henry John
Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, alien secretary in the
Whig government that had been in command since 1846.
Her post was that the sovereign should at least be
consulted on different policy. Palmerston, independent and
self-assertive, disregarded the request. Their conflict
reached a crucial period in 1851, when the prime minister,
Lord John Russell, who was also unhappy with
Palmerston's elective methods, removed him from the
foreign office. Their altercations with Palmerston, one of the
most liked political leaders in the country, caused Victoria
and Albert to lose some of the regard of their subjects.
Their popularity dwindled even more in 1854, when they
tried to avert the Crimean War. After the war had started,
however, they gave it their sincere support. In 1856,
sh...

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