The Young Years of Queen Victoria Essay -- Queen Victoria Childhood Es

The Young Years of cigarette VictoriaVictoria was born on a spring day, May 24th, 1819, at Kensington Palace, in the then quiet suburb of London. Plumb as a partridge was her fathers description of the baby, and she certainly caliber a marked resemblance to her sturdy and robust Hanoverian ancestors who had ruled Great Britain for little more than a century at the time of her birth. By 1798 Victorias grandfather, King George III, had reigned for nearly sixty years, but he was now old and feeble. The symptoms of his terrible illness, porphyria, seemed to his doctors to be those of madness, and for years the King had be confined in Windsor stronghold while his eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled in his stead. Victorias father, Edward, Duke of Kent, was the old Kings fourth son, but since his three elder brothers were without heirs, there seemed a good chance that he cleverness one day himself become King. He had married late in life, when he was over 50, to supply an heir to the throne in the younger generation. between the seven princes and five princesses of the royal family, not one of them had a legitimate child to carry on the succession, until 1819 saw three royal births within deuce months. The Prince of Wales had one child, the Princess Charlotte, who in time would have become promote, but she died in childbirth in the autumn of 1817. It was her death, which drove her uncles into marriage, to father heirs to replace her in the drag of succession. Indirectly, Charlotte herself had found her uncle Edward his bride the Princess had married a minor German prince, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and, deeply in recognise with him, suggested to the Duke of Kent that he would find a wife in Leopolds widowed sister, Victoire. In fact, Edward and Victoire met in 1816, but then there seemed no urgency in the matter of their marriage. But soon after Charlottes death, Edward proposed to Victoire, and the couple was married the following summer. Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was 31 years old when she married the English Duke, a pretty woman with dark hair, with a fine figure and lively ways. She had been married once in advance to Emich Charles who died in 1814, leaving his widow with two small children and the many demands of nobility which forced to test her wits and strength. Her marriage with the Duke of Kent seemed to promise Victoire a brighter future,... ...he Duchess of Kent regained her daughters affection.I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. There are time which force one to take interest in them, and I do, of course intensely. (Victorian Station, P.2. 2000)Bibliography1. Arnstein, Walter L. Victoria (queen). Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Redmond, WA Microsoft Corporation, 1993-1998.2. Erickson, Carolly. Her Little Majesty The Life of Queen Victoria. New York, NY Simon & Schuster, 19973. Farley, M. Foster. Queen Victorias Childhood. Online. Internet Explorer. Accessed 1 March 2000. Available http//www.thehistorynet.com/BritishHeritage/articles/1998/11982_text.htm4. Miller, Ilana. The Life & Issue of Queen Victoria. Online. Internet Explorer. Accessed 1 March 2000. Available http//www.likesbooks.com/victoria.html5. Victorian Station. Excerpts from Queen Victorias journals and personal correspondence. Online. Internet Explorer. Accessed 1 March 2000. Available http//victorianstation.com/queenquotes.htm