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

The Young Years of power capital of SeychellesVictoria was innate(p) on a spring mean solar day, May 24th, 1819, at Kensington Palace, in the then(prenominal) quiet suburb of London. Plumb as a partridge was her fathers translation of the baby, and she certainly bore a marked resemblance to her sturdy and burly Han everywhereian ancestors who had rule Great Britain for little more than a hundred at the time of her birth. By 1798 Victorias grandfather, pouf George III, had reigned for nearly sixty years, solely 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 Castle 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, in that respect seemed a untroubled chance that he might one day himself become King. He had married l ate in life, when he was over 50, to supply an heir to the throne in the younger generation. Between the sevener princes and five princesses of the royal family, not one of them had a legitimate claw to carry on the succession, until 1819 saw three royal births within both months. The Prince of Wales had one child, the Princess Charlotte, who in time would have become Queen, 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 line 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, profoundly in love with him, suggested to the Duke of Kent that he would find a wife in Leopolds leave behinded 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 Victoir e, and the copulate 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 sort and lively ways. She had been married once before to Emich Charles who died in 1814, leaving his widow with two small children and the many demands of nobility which tweetd 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 times which force one to take interest in them, and I do, of course intensely. ( prissy 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 Maj esty The biography of Queen Victoria. New York, NY Simon & Schuster, 19973. Farley, M. Foster. Queen Victorias Childhood. Online. Internet Explorer. Accessed 1 evidence 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