QUEEN VICTORIA

QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN

Queen Victoria reigned over Great Britain for 63 years, and she is remembered ad being one of the most influential monarchs in history.

When it comes to the life of Queen Victoria, biographers are actually very lucky, because che wrote journal and letters documenting her daily life from the time she was a teenage girl all the way up to her death.

When she was close death, she asked her daughter Beatrice to edit and rewrite many of her journals, and destroyes much of the original text that might offend members of her family.

After the Queen's death, her children took it upon themeselves to burn certain chunks of her life that were emarrased of.

A PRINCESS IN TRAINING

Victoria's grandfather was George III, who was the reigning king of Emgland during her youth.

Her father was Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent.

Her mother was Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfed.

Prince Edward would have become the next king, but he died when Victoria was young, leaving her to be the only ligitimate heir to the throne.

A man named John Conroy was appointed at the comptroller over the lives of Victoria and her mother. He saw this as a change to have a powerful position in the gouvernment.

She was raised in a beautiful home of Kensington Palace with toys, clothes, servants and vacations abroad.

In 1835 she became very ill with typhoid fever Confoy accused her of being lazy, and a liar. He said thet she was faking her illness, in order to get out of the tour. But she was really sick. When she was 18 years old she discovered that her grandfather was dead.

BECOMING THE QUEEN

After becoming Queen, Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace. Finally has its independence.

Robert peel became the next Prime Minister and he trated her like a stupid girl.

LIFE WITH PRINCE ALBERT

Victoria's mother and John Gonroy instructed Prince Albert, her first cousin, to courther. She was head-over-heels in love, and as the Queen, she was the one to ask Albert to marry.

Albert's german family instructed him to keep getting her pregnant. But thet pregnancy made her miserable, but che they had 9 chiildren.

TRAGEDY

In the years 1861, Queen Victoria's mother died of Victoria wore black every single day.

MOVING ON

After to the United Kingdom, Victoria met a Scottish man named John Brown when she was 45 years old.

John Brown was loud, rude nad almost always drunk.

After her death, Victoria's daughter, Beatrice deleted all mention of John Brown when she writing Vicotria's journals.

DEATH, AND LEGACY

At 81 years old, Queen Victoria planned for her death.

She told her doctors what she wanted a number of sentimental items in her coffin: 1. The Albert's dressing gown; 2. The photos of the children; 3. A framed photographer of John Brown in her Hands.

Queen Victoria's funeral took place on february 2nd 1901.