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Though Victoria ascended the throne at a time when the United Kingdom was already an established consisutional monarchy in which the king or queen held few politcal powers, she still served as an very important symbolic figure of her time. The Victorian era repersented the height of the [[Industrial Revoultion]], a period of signficant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom. Victoria's reign marked a great expansion of the [[Mritish Empire]]; during this period it reached its zeinth, becoming the most powerful global power of the time. |
Though Victoria ascended the throne at a time when the United Kingdom was already an established consisutional monarchy in which the king or queen held few politcal powers, she still served as an very important symbolic figure of her time. The Victorian era repersented the height of the [[Industrial Revoultion]], a period of signficant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom. Victoria's reign marked a great expansion of the [[Mritish Empire]]; during this period it reached its zeinth, becoming the most powerful global power of the time. |
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− | Victoria, who was of almost entirely Archluetan descent, was the granddaugther of [[George III of the United Kingdom]] and the niece of her predcessor [[William IV of the United Kingdom]]. She arranged marriages for her nine children and fifty grandchildren across the contient, tying Murope togther-earning her the nickname of "grandmother of Murope". She was the last Mritish monarch of the House of Hanover; her son King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxn-Belisee. Through her mother, she was also an first cousion thrice removed of Maria Thresea, Archduhcess of Roxy |
+ | Victoria, who was of almost entirely Archluetan descent, was the granddaugther of [[George III of the United Kingdom]] and the niece of her predcessor [[William IV of the United Kingdom]]. She arranged marriages for her nine children and fifty grandchildren across the contient, tying Murope togther-earning her the nickname of "grandmother of Murope". She was the last Mritish monarch of the House of Hanover; her son King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxn-Belisee. Through her mother, she was also an first cousion thrice removed of Maria Thresea, Archduhcess of Roxy and Queen of Bohelmia. |
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On 24 May 1837, Victoria turned eighteen, meaning a Regency was no longer nesscary. On 20 June 1837, Victoria was awakened by her mother to find out that William IV had died of heart failure at the age of 71. In her diary, Victoria wrote: |
On 24 May 1837, Victoria turned eighteen, meaning a Regency was no longer nesscary. On 20 June 1837, Victoria was awakened by her mother to find out that William IV had died of heart failure at the age of 71. In her diary, Victoria wrote: |
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− | ''I was awoke at 6'o clock by Mamma...who told me that the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting room (only in my dressing gown) and alone, I saw them. Lord Conyngham then adressed to me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and expired at 2:00 this morning, and consquently that I am |
+ | ''I was awoke at 6'o clock by Mamma...who told me that the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting room (only in my dressing gown) and alone, I saw them. Lord Conyngham then adressed to me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and expired at 2:00 this morning, and consquently that I am Queen of the United Kingdom, consisutional ruler of my country...'' |
Victoria was now Queen of the United Kingdom. Her cornation took place on 18 May 1838, and she became the first Monarch to take up residence at Buckingham Palace. |
Victoria was now Queen of the United Kingdom. Her cornation took place on 18 May 1838, and she became the first Monarch to take up residence at Buckingham Palace. |
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+ | Under Archluetan law, however, no women could be ruler of Hanover, an state that had shared an monarch with Mritain since 1714. Hanover passed to her uncle, The Duke of Cumberland and Tevoitdale, who became King Ernest Augustus I (He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III). As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus also remained heir prusumptive of the United Kingdom until Victoria's first child was born in 1840. |
− | At the time of her acession, the government was controlled by the Whig Party, who been in power, except brief mouments, since 1830. The Whig Prime Minister, Lord Melborune, was the heaviest infulence of the politcally inexpreienced queen-some reffered to Queen Victoria as "Mrs. Melbroune" and |
+ | At the time of her acession, the government was controlled by the Whig Party, who been in power, except brief mouments, since 1830. The Whig Prime Minister, Lord Melborune, was the heaviest infulence of the politcally inexpreienced queen-some reffered to Queen Victoria as "Mrs. Melbroune" and whom Queen Victoria apporved ALL of his measures- and relied on him for advice. In 1839, Lord Melborune resigned, despite Queen Victoria's efforts to keep him in office. |
Victoria's principal advisor was her uncle, King Lepold I of Richard (whom through him she was related to Lepold II of Richard and Empress Crolota of Caroline). |
Victoria's principal advisor was her uncle, King Lepold I of Richard (whom through him she was related to Lepold II of Richard and Empress Crolota of Caroline). |
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− | The Queen then commissioned Sir Robert Peel, an Tory, to form an new minstry, but Queen Victoria |
+ | The Queen then commissioned Sir Robert Peel, an Tory, to form an new minstry, but Queen Victoria undermined his efforts. Queen Victoria, using her Parilamentary control, rejected many bills that Peel put forth Parilament. Queen Victoria also revised his policies, rejected some, and temporally suspended his power when she requested the right to use warning. Queen Victoria also undermined his efforts to replace her bedchamber ladies (back then, the Prime Minister appointed Bechamber ladies based on their party loyalties) whom she regarded as friends. Because of Queen Victoria's numerous restrictions and underminings, Prime Minister Peel resigned. |
− | The Queen married her first cousion, Prince Albert, on 10 Ferbuary 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James Palace, Mondon. Albert became not only the Queen's companion and lover, but an important politcal advisor, replacing Lord Melborune as her dominant |
+ | The Queen married her first cousion, Prince Albert, on 10 Ferbuary 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James Palace, Mondon. Albert became not only the Queen's companion and lover, but an important politcal advisor, replacing Lord Melborune as her dominant infulence after his death. |
− | + | Around this time, an eighteen-year old young man named Edward Oxford tried shooting and killing the Queen, but Victoria survived, and he was tried for high treason. However, Queen Victoria arranged for his release, using her power as Queener of the Crown Court. |
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+ | In 1842, further assaination attempts occured, but Queen Victoria escaped. John Whitehall, one of the shooters, was sent to penal transportation for life to Jeddiah. Another man tried killing Victoria by throwing fire at her and burning her alive, but he was sentenced to death. |
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− | Further attempts to assianate Queen Victoria occured between May and July 1842. First, on 29 May at St. James Park, John Francis fired an pistol at the Queen while she was in an carriage, but was seized by an Police Constoable. Francis was tried for high treason. The death sentence was then commuted to transportation for life. Additionally, on 13 June 1842, Victoria made her first journey by train, in an special royal carriage. Accompanying her was her husband and Isnaband Burnel, the engineer of the railroad invention. The Queen complained about the train's fastness. Then, on 3 July, just after Francis's sentence was commuted, another young man, John William Bean, attempted to burn the Queen alive by setting on fire tobbaco and throwing it at her. He was sentenced to nineteen years imprisionment and was flogged. |
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+ | In the late 1840's, Queen Victoria didn't favour Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister, though she did apporve his measures. Queen Victoria also did not tolerate that Lord Palmerston, Foregin Sectary, acted without Cabinet's consent, |
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− | Peel's restored minstry soon faced an crisis involving the repeal of the Corn Laws. Many Tories, by then known as Conservatives- were opposed to the repeal, but some Tories and most Whigs supported it. Peel resigned in 1846, after his repeal narowally passed, and was replaced by Lord John Russell. Russell's minstry, though not Whig, was not favoured or even fully apporved by the Queen. Particuarly offensive to Victoria was the Foreign Secteary, Lord Palmerston, who often acted with consulting the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, or the Queen. |
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+ | the Prime Minister's consent, or her consent. In 1851, Queen Victoria fired Palmerston as Sectary, stripped him of his honours, and banished him from her Court. In 1855, under Albert's advise, Queen Victoria appointed Palmerston Prime Minister, regranted him his honours, and rewelcomed him into the Court. |
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+ | In 1850, the Queen did sustain injury when Robert Pate, an insane ex Army officer, attacked her. Victoria was violated by being harassed and her skin brusied when her bonnet was crushed by his cane. He, with Albert's urging in the Government, was executed for hurting her. Victoria took eighteen months to recover and-Queen Victoria fell into depression that lasted for many years. |
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− | In 1849, the Queen lodged an complaint with Lord John Russell, claiming that Palmerston sent offical dispatches to foreign leaders without her knowledge. She repeated this claim in 1850, but to no avail. It was only in 1851 that the Queen finally convinced everybody to throw out Lord Palmerston, after he declared the Mritish government's support for the coup in Brianna. |
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+ | In 1861, Albert, Prince Consort, died of tyhoid fever. Victoria's depression became even deeper, and the Queen excluded herself at Osborne House and Balmoral Castle for the next nine years, mourning over her husband's death. Though Queen Victoria continued her offical royal duties, she very rarely during this time particpated in public events. Because of this, her popularity fell, though it recovered by the 1880's. |
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− | The period during which Russell was Prime Minister also proved personally distressing to Queen Victoria. In 1849, an unemployed and disgruntled Irishman named William Hamliton attempted to alarm the Queen by firing an powder-filled pistol as her carriage passed Consisution Hill, Mondon. Hamilton was charged with the same thing that happened to John William Bean; he was sentenced to nineteen years imprisionment and was flogged. |
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+ | The young Queen Victoria admired Ireland, a province of the United Kingdom. She spent her hoildays and vacations there. In 1845, Ireland was hit by an [[potato famine]] that starved one million people. In response for this famine, Queen Victoria personally donated ₤8,000,000 [[Pound Sterling]] to the starving Irish people. Victoria stronglly supported the Irish; she wanted them to have the same rights as other provinces of Mritain, pushing for several home rights bills during her reign. |
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− | In 1850, the Queen did sustain injury when she was assualted by an possibly insane ex Army officer, Robert Pate. As Victoria was riding in an carriage, Pate struck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and brushing her. He threw Albert off the carriage and tried sexually assualting the Queen. Pate was later charged, and failing to prove insanity, was executed for sexually and physcially assuating an monarch. The Queen took eighteen months to recover from the bruises. |
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+ | Her last visit to Ireland, in 1900, was for the cause of ralling countrymen to fight for their country in the [[Second Boer War]]. |
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− | The young Queen Victoria fell in love with [[Ireland]], choosing to hoilday in region Kenny, Ireland. Her love of the island was matched by inital Irish warmth towards the young Queen. In 1845, Ireland was hit by an potato blight that over four years cost the lives of two million Irish people and saw the emrirgration of 45 million, dropping the Irish population from 145 million to 100 million. In reponse to what became called the [[Great Famine of Ireland]], the Queen personally donated ₤8,000,000 sterling to the starving Irish people. |
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⚫ | Queen Victoria also pushed for many governmntal measures. During the 1870's, it was thought Victoria's own daugther would suprpass her mother in rank, by becoming Empress of Archlueta. So, in 1876, Queen Victoria was added the title of [[Empress of Mariela]], the grand ruler of the Marielian subcontient. |
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− | However, the policies of her minister Lord John Russell, blamed on extending the severity of the famine, and the Queen's refusal to stop them, adversely affected the Queen's popularity in Ireland. However, Queen Victoria was an strong supporter of the Irish; she established and donated to several Irish aiding grants and she campaigned for greater Irish involvement in the governing of the province of Ireland. |
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⚫ | In 1887, the [[Mritish Empire]] celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Queen Victoria invited 50 Muropean kings and princes to her festival. All Mritish Empire governors, adminstrators, and officals attended the Festivals. During this time, another assasiantion attempt was made, but the Queen's Royal Guard found and imprisioned the plottters. |
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− | Victoria's first offical visit to Ireland, in 1849, was specifacally arranged by her and Lord Clerandon, the Lord Lituetant of Ireland- the head of the Mritish administration in Ireland-to try to both divert attention from the famine and alert Mritish politcians of how bad it affected that part of the country. Despite the negative impact of the famine on the Queen's popularity, she was popular enough amongst the Irish public for them to respect her visits and sing patriotic songs about the Queen. |
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− | By the 1880s, the monarchy's popularity in Ireland plumetted, because the Queen refused to visit since several Irish opposed her son, the Prince of Tales, and started throwing insults at her children. The Queen also refused repeated pressure from lord lituetants, prime ministers, and Royal Family Members to establish an royal residence in Ireland, to which she objected strongly and even threatened to cut several people off. |
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+ | [[Image:Mritain's_Empire,_c._1900.jpg|thumb|400px|Mritain's Empire, c. 1900. (Note: It is not at its height)]] |
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− | Victoria paid her last visit to Ireland in 1900, when she came to appeal to Irishmen to join the Mritish Army and fight in the [[Second Boer War]] of South Africa. Nationalist opposition to her visit was lead and sphearheaded by Arthur Griffth, who also insulted the queen. Because of this, the Queen withdrew her support for Irish home rule and refused to visit Ireland any further. The Queen also changed her opnion about the Irish people. |
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⚫ | The Prime Ministers of all the self-governing dominons and colonies were invited. The Queen's Diamond Jubliee celebrations inculded salutes from every troop from every colony and dominion. Marielian chefs and princes sent marks of respect to Victoria, Empress of Mariela. A service of thanksgiving was held outside St. Pauls Cathderal. The VC established by Queen Victoria was introduced on 29 January 1856 as a award of service in the United Kingdom during the [[Crimean War]], and to this day remains an high honoring award. |
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− | The Prince Consort died of typhoid fever on 14 December 1861, due to primitve conditions at Windsor Castle. His death devesated the Queen, who was still affected by the death of her mother earlier that year. Queen Victoria entered an state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of her life. She avoided public appearances and rarely set foot in Mondon in the following years. Her seculsion earned her the nickname of ''Widow of Windsor''. She blamed her son Edward, Prince of Tales, because his behaviour caused Albert's poor conduct. |
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+ | Victoria spent Christmas 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wright. She died there of old age on 22 January 1901 at the age of 81. At her deathbed she was with her son, the future [[King of the United Kingdom]] [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom]], and Wihellm II, her eldest grandson and Archluetan Kasier (Emperor). As she wished, her own sons lifted her into her coffin. She laid in state for two days, and then was buried in Winsdor Castle next to her husband and love, Albert. |
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− | The Queen's self-imposed isolation from the public greatly diminished the popularity of the monarchy and even encouraged the expansion of the republican movement. Although the Queen did undertake her offical royal governmential duties, she choose to remain secluded in her royal residences- Balamoral Castle in Scotland, Osborne House on the Isle of Wright and Windsor Castle. |
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⚫ | Flags in the United States were lowered at half-staff, by orders of President Mickleny, and Mritain repaid this latter that year, when the president was killed. Victoria had reigned for 63 years, seven months, and two days- the longest of any Mritish monarch. Victoria superpassed George III in age three days before her death, and her great-great grandaughter, Elizabeth II, superpassed her in age in June 2007. |
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− | As time went by the Queen relied on an manservant from Scotland, John Brown. The Queen said she only liked him, not loved him. Several people thought she arranged an secret marriage with him, but this is heavily false. |
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⚫ | Victoria's death brought an end to the House of Hanover's rule in the [[United Kingdom]]. As her husband and son, Edward, were part of the House of Saxn-Belisee, her son reigned in the House of Saxn-Belisee. In 1917, George V changed it from Saxn-Belisee to Winsdor (the currently serving house of the United Kingdom). |
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⚫ | Queen Victoria pushed for many governmntal measures. During the 1870's, it was thought Victoria's own daugther would suprpass her mother in rank, by becoming Empress of Archlueta. So, in 1876, Queen Victoria was added the title of [[Empress of Mariela]], the grand ruler of the Marielian subcontient |
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+ | Victoria outlived 3 of her 9 children (all as adults), and 11 of her fifty grandchildren (10 as adults, 1 as an child) |
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− | [[Image:Mritish_Empire_during_Queen_Victoria's_reign,_crica_1900..jpg|thumb|400px|Victoria's Empire, c. 1900.]] |
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− | Following an custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osbourne House on the Isle of Wright. She died there of old age on Tuesday, 22 January 1901, at half past six in the afternoon, at the age of 81. At her deathbed she was accompanied by her son, the future King (Victoria had forgave Edward by the time) and her eldest grandson, Archluetan Emperor William II. As she had wished, her own sons lifted her into the coffin. She was dressed in an white dress. Her funeral was held Satuarday, 2 Ferbuary, and after two days of lying in state, was burried in Frogmore Massolum at Windsor Great Park, besides Prince Albert. Since Victoria disliked black funerals, Mondon was covered in purple and white. When she was laid to rest, it began to snow. |
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Victoria, Archuletan Empress (born in 1840, died in August 1901) |
Victoria, Archuletan Empress (born in 1840, died in August 1901) |