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Queen Victoria Riding Out by Francis Grant, 1840. Lord Melbourne's tutoring of Victoria took place against a background of two damaging political events: first, the Lady Flora Hastings affair, followed not long after by the Bedchamber Crisis.
In 1837 Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne, and as was usual for a queen regnant, the Royal Household was appointed by the Prime Minister. The young Queen was so attached to her Whig ladies of the bedchamber that after Melbourne's resignation in 1839, she refused to let Sir Robert Peel replace them with Conservative ladies.
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors —constituted the Victorian era .
Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to meet her. [2] When Victoria complained to Lord Melbourne that her mother's close proximity promised "torment for many years", Melbourne sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage, which Victoria called a "shocking alternative". [3]
The first series (covering 1837–1840) depicts the first few years of the reign of Queen Victoria (portrayed by Jenna Coleman), from her accession to the British throne at the age of 18 (1837), to her intense friendship and infatuation with her favourite advisor Lord Melbourne (Rufus Sewell), to her courtship and early marriage (1840) to Prince Albert of Germany, and finally to the birth of ...
Satire of the crisis by John Doyle, 31 December 1840. The Bedchamber crisis was a constitutional crisis that occurred in the United Kingdom between 1839 and 1841. It began after Whig politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne declared his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a government bill passed by a very narrow margin of only five votes in the House of ...
This Noble Land – Victoria, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, the Cabinet, Chorale; I and Albert – Victoria; His Royal Highness – Lord Palmerston, Lady Caro and the Foreign Office; Enough! – Albert; Victoria – Albert; All Glass – Albert, Victoria, Paxton, Royal Family and the public; Act 2. The Genius of Man – Company
In 1815, he was made Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne in the County of Derby, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] He was succeeded by his son, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , who was a noted Whig politician and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1834 and 1835–1841.