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The name "Queen Victoria"【1】_____up a picture of a small, plump old lady. It
The name "Queen Victoria"【1】_____up a picture of a small, plump old lady. It
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The name "Queen Victoria"【1】_____up a picture of a small, plump old lady.
It is hard to 【1】_____
visualise her as a child. Yet, of course, she was once young and not always the formidable matriarch
and magnificent Queen-Empress of popular legend.
Victoria was born on a bright spring day, in the【2】_____of London.
She bore a marked 【2】_____
resemblance to her ancestors.
By 1798 Victoria’s grandfather, King George Ⅲ was severely ill. Victoria’s father, Edward,
Duke of Kent, was the old King’s fourth son,
but since his three elder brothers were without【3】_____, 【3】_____
there seemed a good chance that he might one day himself become King. Between the
seven princes and five princesses of the royal family,
not one of them had a【4】_____child to carry 【4】_____
on the succession.
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 Edward and Victoire met in 1816 Soon
after Charlotte’s death, Edward proposed to Victoire, and the couple were married the following
summer.
Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was 31 years old when she married the English Duke, a prettywoman with dark hair and sparking eyes, with a fine figure and lively ways. A German Princess of【5】_____ 【5】_____
lineage but little【6】_____, she had been first married at the age of 17 to Prince Emich 【6】_____
Charles of Leiningren. Together they had weathered the storms of the Napoleonic invasions of
Germany, their tiny principality【7】_____by the wars.
Emich Charles died only a few months after 【7】_____
the first defeat of Napoleon, in 1814, leaving his widow with two small children. Her marriage with
the Duke of Kent seemed to promise Victoire a【8】_____future,
taking her away from her narrow 【8】_____
existence in the village of Amorbach, with its careful economies and restricted social life, into one of the leading Courts of Europe, with the chance of one day becoming a queen.
In the summer of 1818 Edward brought his bride to England.
The Duke was【9】_____that his 【9】_____
child should be born in his native land,
and by dint of【10】_____from his long-suffering friends, 【10】_____
he managed to bring his wife back to England in time for the baby’s birth. [br] 【5】
The name "Queen Victoria conjures up a picture of a small, plump old lady in a black gown and lace cap, querulous and exacting, "not amused at the antics of the younger generation, yearning always to be reunited by death with her dear departed Albert. It is hard to visualise her as a child. Yet, of course, she was once young and not always the formidable matriarch and magnificent Queen-Empress of popular legend. In fact, her childhood did not really end until she was 18 years old, when she succeeded to the throne.
Victoria was born on a bright spring day, 24th May 1819, at Kensington Palace, in the then quiet suburb of London. "Plumb as a partridge was her father’s description of the baby, and she certainly bore a marked resemblance to her sturdy and robust Hanoverian ancestors who had ruled Great Britain for little more than a century at the time of her birth.
By 1798 Victoria’s grandfather, King George Ⅲ, had reigned for nearly sixty years, but he was now old and ailing. 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. Victoria’s father, Edward, Duke of Kent, was the old King’s fourth son, but since his three elder brothers were without heirs, there seemed a good chance that he might one day himself become King. He had married late in life, when he was over 50, to supply an heir to the throne in the younger generation. Between the seven princes and five princesses of the royal family, not one of them had a legitimate child to carry on the succession, until 1819 saw three royal births within two 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 beget 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- ling, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and, deeply in love with him, suggested to the Duke of Kent that he would find an amiable wife in Leopold’s widowed sister, Victoire. In fact, Edward and Victoire met in 1816, but then there seemed no urgency in the matter of their marriage, and there were too many difficulties in the way at the time for the Duke of Kent to urge his suit not the least of them being that he was perfectly happy with his French mistress of some quarter of a century’s standing. But soon after Charlotte’s death, Edward proposed to Victoire, and the couple were 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 and sparking eyes, with a fine figure and lively ways. A German Princess of ancient lineage but little fortune, she had been first married at the age of 17 to Prince Emich Charles of Leiningren, a widower in his late thirties. Together they had weathered the storms of the Napoleonic invasions of Germany, their tiny principality impoverished by the wars. Emich Charles died only a few months after the first defeat of Napoleon, in 1814, leaving his widow with two small children and the manifold demands of noblesse oblige to tax her wits and strength. Her marriage with the Duke of Kent seemed to promise Victoire a brighter future, taking her away from her narrow existence in the village of Amorbach, with its careful economies and restricted social life, into one of the leading Courts of Europe, with the chance of one day becoming a queen.
In the summer of 1818 Edward brought his bride to England, but then, after a few heady months in London "society, it was back to Amorbach and the familiar daily round, for the Duke was so burdened with debts that he could not afford to keep up , appearances as a royal personage in England. But he was determined that his child should be born in his native land, and by dint of borrowing from his long-suffering friends, he managed to bring his wife back to England in time for the baby’s birth.
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