The Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was born May 24, 1819 in London, Kensington Palace, is the only daughter of Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Victoria was baptized 24 June 1819 at Kensington Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Although his Christian name is Alexandrina Victoria, is officially recognized as the Princess Victoria, which is also the name of his mother.

The father of the princess, the Duke of Kent, died of pneumonia January 23 1820, when she is older than 8 months. His grandfather, King George III, died less than a week later, on 29 January 1820.

While Victoria is in the line of succession, he was not talking during his early years as German, the first language of his mother and his governess. But when she reached the age of three, she continued her education in English. She also learns to speak Italian, Greek, Latin and French.

She was eleven years old when his uncle George IV died childless June 26, 1830, leaving the throne to his brother, who became King William IV, the new king had no child.

The young Princess Victoria became heiress presumptive to the British throne so Parliament passed the Regency Act in 1831 it has the right to rule as an adult with the help of his mother until his majority when his uncle, William IV, would die too.

In 1835, Princess Victoria was sixteen when she met her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he is her cousin. Indeed, Albert's father, Duke Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is the brother of the mother of Victoria.

The Princess Victoria's uncle, King William IV, disapproved of the union, but his objections fail to deter young people.

Many historians say that Albert was not in love with the young Victoria and was entered into a relationship with her to have a significant status

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William IV died at the age of seventy-two, June 20, 1837, leaving the throne to Victoria. As the young queen just turned eighteen a regency act is not necessary.

The queen is crowned June 28, 1838. When Victoria ascended the throne, the government is controlled by the Whig party, which has been in power since 1830, with some interruptions closely. The Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, introduced him to the political life of the young queen lack of experience.

In 1839, unable to conduct foreign policy, the government of Lord Melbourne resigned load and Queen Robert Peel, a Tory, to form a new government. It was then breaks out a "crisis of the bedroom." At the time, the Prime Minister appoints the Ladies of the Queen Bedroom. These jobs are traditionally given to women whose husbands belong to political parties, many ladies of the Queen of the bedroom are wives of Whigs then Sir Robert wishes to replace them with wives of Tories but strongly opposes Victoria the replacement because it considers these women more as friends than as members of an institution protocol.

Peel believes that it can’t govern and resigned, allowing Lord Melbourne back to business but Albert has become a more important political advisor Lord Melbourne in the eyes of Victoria.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert finally husbands February 10, 1840 in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, Victoria gave birth

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