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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. Victoria's reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when Hastings, one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, developed an abdominal growth that was ...
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.
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 ...
The child was Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, later Queen Victoria. While the Duke of Kent had promised Conroy military advancement, he was still a captain by the time of the Duke's death in 1820. [9] Conroy was named an executor of the Duke's will, [14] though he was unsuccessful in persuading the dying man to name him Victoria's ...
An 1848 etching featuring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorating an ... the first decorated Christmas tree close to what is popular today originated in 16th-century Germany. Martin Luther is ...
Peel said he was willing to become prime minister provided the Queen replaced her Whig ladies-in-waiting with Tory ones. She refused and re-appointed Lord Melbourne, a decision criticised as unconstitutional. [2] Britain sent Lord Durham to resolve the issue and his 1839 report opened the way for "responsible government" (that is, self-government).
The other premiers include the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston and Sir Robert Peel. [2] Other notable figures include the politicians the Marquess of Anglesey, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Holland, Lord Lyndhurst, John Wilson Croker as well as Sir Thomas Kelly, the Lord Mayor of London.