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Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1st Baronet, KCH (21 October 1786 – 2 March 1854) was a British Army officer who served as comptroller to the Duchess of Kent and her young daughter, Princess Victoria, the future Queen of the United Kingdom.
Sir John Conroy in an 1837 painting by Henry William Pickersgill. Rumours about Victoria's parentage centred on a controversial Irish soldier and adventurer called Sir John Conroy who was her mother's private secretary and the comptroller of her household. The Duchess of Kent was the same age as Conroy, whereas she was nineteen years younger ...
The Kensington System was a strict and elaborate set of rules designed by Victoria, Duchess of Kent, along with her attendant, Sir John Conroy, concerning the upbringing of the Duchess's daughter, the future Queen Victoria. It is named after Kensington Palace in London, where they resided prior to Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.
Victoire Maria Louisa, Lady Hanmer (née Conroy; 12 August 1819 – 9 February 1866) was a childhood companion of the future Queen Victoria.She was born the youngest daughter of Sir John Conroy, who served as the comptroller of the household of the Duchess of Kent and the young princess.
At the start of her reign Victoria was popular, [40] but her reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy. [41]
Queen Victoria's very first grandchild Wilhelm II, also known as Kaiser Wilhelm, also became the first of her descendants to lose his throne when he abdicated in November of 1918, just days before ...
For these reasons, the young Victoria hated and suspected Lady Flora, and was open to any accusation that might reflect negatively on Conroy or his aides. Once she ascended the throne in June 1837, Victoria made every attempt to keep her mother's household, including Lady Flora and Conroy, away from her in distant parts of Buckingham Palace ...
It was said Queen Victoria had no confidence in him; thought him dangerous, free-thinking. He longed to be given responsibilities, but his mother refused. Even forbade him from seeing state papers ...