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Queen Victoria's Childhood
By Ciara Fleming
5R 2011
Queen Victoria becoming Queen
Queen Victoria became Queen aged 19. She was told this on the 20th of June 1837. It was held a year later at Westminster abbey on the 28th of June 1838. There was an estimate of four-thousand people watching. A segment of a newspaper of that day is still around today…
Queen Victoria's Diary The queen began to keep a diary aged 13.This is one of the entry's… 1 May 1851 'This day is one of the greatest and most glorious of our
lives... It is a day which makes my heart swell with thankfulness... The Park presented a wonderful spectacle, crowds streaming through it, - carriages and troops passing... The Green Park and Hyde Park were one mass of densely crowded human beings, in the highest good humour... before we neared the Crystal Palace, the sun shone and gleamed upon the gigantic edifice, upon which the flags of every nation were flying... The sight as we came to the centre where the steps and chair (on which I did not sit) was placed, facing the beautiful crystal fountain was magic and impressive. The tremendous cheering, the joy expressed in every face, the vastness of the building, with all its decoration and exhibits, the sound of the organ... all this was indeed moving.'
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Personality
When she was a child she was bad tempered. Her piano teacher told her she must practice if she wanted to learn. Victoria slammed the piano lid on the teachers fingers and said “ See, there is no must about it!”
Victoria was a very good artist. She drew her self portrait as a teenager and here it is.
Family
Her father was called Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn but he died around 8 months after Victoria was born. Her mother was a German princess called Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was named duchess of Kent and was the 4th daughter and 7th child of Franz Frederick Anton and Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf.
King George I was Queen Victoria's great, great, great granddad, who did not know English, and was born in Hanover. Hanover is now in Germany. King George 1 married his first cousin on the year of 1682.
Victoria had two half sisters, Adelaide Victoria Augusta Dubus and Julie de St Laurent. Adelaide died age 1. Adelaide’s mother had the same name as Adelaide, Adelaide Dubus .
Dates
• Victoria was born on 24th of May 1819, at Kensington Palace.
• Her son, Albert Edward, was born on 9th November 1841.
• Her husband died on 14th December 1861, aged 24.
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