Suddenly, it became possible to stay connected with friends and family despite relocation, emigration, and travel. During Victoria's first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, 18-year-old Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother. By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, [23] the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. The Daily Mail quotes a number of letters penned by Albert to his wife in his native German, in which he gives the queen quite the dressing-down. When Lady Flora died in July, the post-mortem revealed a large tumour on her liver that had distended her abdomen. Nevertheless, over the following seventeen years, she and Albert had a further eight children: Albert Edward, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold and Beatrice. She agreed to visit the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington and take a drive through London in an open carriage.The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her godparents were Tsar Alexander I of Russia (represented by her uncle Frederick, Duke of York), her uncle George, Prince Regent, her aunt Queen Charlotte of Württemberg (represented by Victoria's aunt Princess Augusta) and Victoria's maternal grandmother the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (represented by Victoria's aunt Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh). Almost exactly a year later, the Princess gave birth to the Queen's first grandchild, Wilhelm, who would become the last German Emperor. The exception to the monogram guideline was that if one was using a wax seal your wax stamp could discretely display your initials.

At the time of Victoria's accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne. Victoria admired Heinrich von Angeli's 1875 portrait of her for its "honesty, total want of flattery, and appreciation of character". Equerry Frederick Ponsonby (the son of Sir Henry) discovered that the Munshi had lied about his parentage, and reported to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India, "the Munshi occupies very much the same position as John Brown used to do. I look upon this with patience as a test which has to be undergone, but you hurt me desperately and at the same time do not help yourself. The remark "We are not amused" is attributed to her but there is no direct evidence that she ever said it, [66] [212] and she denied doing so.Victoria showed interest in Albert's education for the future role he would have to play as her husband, but she resisted attempts to rush her into wedlock. The gaps left in the journals are in some ways, filled in by the enormous epistolary legacy of the Queen, which was not censored by a later hand and remains boxed away in the many royal archives of Europe, silent as if waiting to speak. As she could not succeed to the throne of Hanover, her arms did not carry the Hanoverian symbols that were used by her immediate predecessors. Compiling some 22,000 items from the Royal Collection, Royal Archives and Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, the fascinating range of material offers an insight into Albert’s role in his own lifetime, and the impact he continues to have on society today.

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As a result of her seclusion, British republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. A surviving family member in India read about Ms Basu's book in a local newspaper and told her that the diaries were being kept by another branch of the family in Karachi, which she duly tracked down. The following year, President Bonaparte was declared Emperor NapoleonIII, by which time Russell's administration had been replaced by a short-lived minority government led by Lord Derby. Reforms of the voting system increased the power of the House of Commons at the expense of the House of Lords and the monarch.

They include personal letters to Empress Augusta Victoria from her relative, Queen Victoria of England. The diaries and other correspondence were taken back to India by Mr Karim and his nephew, Abdul Rashid, after their dismissal and were in turn sneaked out of India to Pakistan 40 years later when his family migrated during the violence at the time of partition. All in matching red buckram, faded at spine, with gilt decoration and gilt monogram to white background to front board. A painting by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer depicting the Queen with Brown was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and Victoria published a book, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, which featured Brown prominently and in which the Queen praised him highly.This copy (unbound) was the one, which was used for corrections for the popular edition, published October 28th, 1908. They had been betrothed since September 1855, when Princess Victoria was 14 years old; the marriage was delayed by the Queen and her husband Albert until the bride was 17. Prince Frederick died in 1827, followed by GeorgeIV in 1830; their next surviving brother succeeded to the throne as WilliamIV, and Victoria became heir presumptive. As such, Karim, the son of a hospital assistant living in the North Indian city of Agra, was one of two servants selected and presented to Victoria as “a gift from India” on the occasion of her 50th year on the throne. Victoria requested that Karim be among the principal mourners—a small group of her closest friends and family members—at her Windsor Castle funeral.