According to her diary, she enjoyed Albert’s company from the beginning. She knew that her mother was thinking that he might be a good suitor for her. Victoria had met her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, before she became Queen. Victoria was, as yet, unmarried but was aware of the various matrimonial plans that were being concocted by her mother. Quite an undertaking for an 18 year old girl. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen.” Official documents prepared on the first day of her reign described her as Alexandrina Victoria, but the first name was withdrawn at her own wish and never used again. I got out of bed and went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing gown) and alone, and saw them. In her diary she wrote, “I was awoke at 6 o’clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me.
Victoria was just 18 years old when she took the throne in 1837. When her uncle did pass away, the four other people in line, including her father, had already passed away so Victoria became Queen. When Victoria was born in 1819, she was fifth in line to the throne which means that there were four people before her who would become the regnant after her uncle, King George IV, passed away. It is because of this that we hear so much about her and her name is used in conjunction with so many things, for example, Victorian décor, Victorian ways of morality, Victorian dress, etc. She is the longest reigning monarch in Great Britain and the longest reigning female monarch in the world. Known as the “grandmother of Europe”, Queen Victoria had nine children, all of whom married European royalty, thus spreading her family throughout the continent. Today we begin with one of the most famous and arguably the most culturally influential of all the monarchs of the British or any empire, Queen Victoria and the great love of her life, Prince Albert.
So your Two Chums thought it would be fitting, (and fun) to get “caught up”, as it were, on the other love stories that have surrounded the British throne. As the first anniversary of the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, approaches later this week, we couldn’t help but reflect on the their love story and the fascination the world has for everything “royal”.
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