Two men tried to shoot her in , and in , her carriage was attacked by William Hamilton, an unemployed Irish immigrant who later pled guilty to the crime and was banished for seven years, History reports.
One year later, Robert Pate, a former soldier, used an iron-tipped cane to hit the Queen in the head, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The final notable attempt took place in March of , when a Scottish poet named Roderick Maclean shot at Queen Victoria's carriage with a pistol while leaving the Windsor train station. According to Time , this was Maclean's eighth attempt at assassinating the Queen. Maclean was tried for high treason and was found "not guilty, but insane," so Maclean was sentenced to live out his days in an asylum until his death in , the Guardian reports.
Despite the chaos and fear that followed the many assassination attempts, Queen Victoria became more and more popular with the public after each attempt. Four years later, Victoria, now the monarch, proposed to Prince Albert on October 15, and they were married on February 10, , in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace in London.
Victoria was deeply in love with Albert and, once they were married, she claimed to be truly happy for the first time in her life. After their wedding night, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary, "I never, never spent such an evening!! My dearest dearest dear Albert At the time of her wedding , it was common for wedding dresses to come in a variety of colors. Queen Victoria, however, wished to show off the lace embroidery of her dress and requested it in white.
She also asked that none of her guests wear white so as not to draw attention away from her, and she even had the pattern for her dress destroyed so that it could not be copied, according to Vogue.
Queen Victoria accessorized the dress—complete with an foot train—with white satin shoes, Turkish diamond earrings, and a sapphire brooch that belonged to Prince Albert. Over her veil, the queen wore a wreath of myrtle and orange blossoms. They popularized the custom in when Albert sent decorated trees to schools and army barracks around Windsor.
An image of the royal family decorating a tree was also published that year, inspiring other British families to do the same. Victoria and Albert were very hands-on in the process. Over the course of her life, Queen Victoria was mother to nine children with Prince Albert. Her sons and daughters would later go on to marry into several other European monarchies, and would go on to produce the Queen's 42 grandchildren. She had strong preferences for certain prime ministers notably Melbourne and Disraeli over others notably Peel and Gladstone , but following the advice of Albert did not press these beyond the bounds of constitutional propriety.
At various points in her long reign she exercised some influence over foreign affairs, and the marriages of her children had important diplomatic, as well as dynastic implications in Europe.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. She was barely five feet tall. In her later years, she also grew to an impressive girth.
Some accounts claim she had a inch waist by the end of Queen Elizabeth II has since served as reigning monarch of the United Kingdom England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and numerous other realms and territories, as well as head of the Commonwealth, the group of 53 sovereign nations that includes many former British In the waning days of the 19th century, the United Kingdom was the most powerful country on earth. The British Empire was at its imperial zenith. She sought to return England to the Catholic Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most powerful and influential figures of the Middle Ages.
You're right! None other than the famed Queen Victoria. Of course, her entire existence did not revolve around politics, and Victoria is an interesting figure to study as simply a human being.
When it came to succession, Queen Victoria was fifth in line to the throne. However, her father, Edward, Duke of Kent, died shortly after she was born. As his only child, she became an heir to the throne. She became queen at the age of 18 years old. This area is now part of Germany. The Queen herself was of German descent. Within the next 21 years, before she was 42 years of age, the couple had nine children. Unfortunately, Prince Albert passed away in at the young age of Understandably, Queen Victoria mourned for quite a long time and secluded herself for many years.
She was in serious mourning and wore black as a symbol for the rest of her life. Perhaps people thought this made her surly and stern; however, doing so showed how much she was dedicated to the love for her husband.
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