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Some facts about Victoria; . . 👑 Victoria later described her childhood as “rather melancholy”. Her mother was extremely protective, & Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called “Kensington System”, an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess & her ambitious & domineering comptroller, Sir John Conroy, who was rumoured to be the Duchess’s lover. . 👑 The system prevented the princess from meeting people whom her mother & Conroy deemed undesirable (including most of her father’s family), & was designed to render her weak & dependent upon them. . 👑 Victoria shared a bedroom with her mother every night, studied with private tutors to a regular timetable, & spent her play-hours with her dolls & her King Charles spaniel, Dash. . . 👑 The Regency Act 1830 made special provision for the Duchess of Kent (Victoria’s mother) to act as regent in case William died while Victoria was still a minor. . ◼ King William distrusted the Duchess’s capacity to be regent, and in 1836 declared in her presence that he wanted to live until Victoria’s 18th birthday, so that a regency could be avoided. Amazingly he died less than two months after Victoria’s eighteenth birthday! So the regency was avoided. . 👑 On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria #HerMajesty #HouseofHanover #London #British #kensingtonpalace #Buckinghampalace #greatbritish #Britain #BritishMonarchy #Victorian #Victorianengland #GodSaveTheQueen #History #historyfacts #Royalcollection #britishroyals #onthisday #Royalfamily #royalhistory #osbornehouse (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oNp_sgvmC/?igshid=hdo21zj1loxg

Some facts about Queen Victoria; . . ◼ Victoria’s father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward’s niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent & his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. . ◼ In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872) by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte’s widower. . ◼ The Duke and Duchess of Kent’s only child, Victoria was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. . . 👑 On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria #royalhistory #Royalfamily #Victorian #Dukeandduchess #Instaroyals #instahistory #Heritage #History #ukhistory #onthisday #portraitpainting  #HerMajesty #Osborbehouse #Kensingtonpalace #Buckinghampalace #HouseofHanover #VictorianEra #BritishMonarchy #PrinceEdward #dukeofKentandStrathearn #PrincessVictoria . 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oL08Ag_pP/?igshid=1e2lpdtzmiy30

On This Day In History . 22 January 1901 . King Edward VII accession . . ◼ When Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901, Edward became King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India &, in an innovation, King of the British Dominions. . ◼ He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward the name his mother had intended for him to use declaring that he did not wish to “undervalue the name of Albert” & diminish the status of his father with whom the “name should stand alone”. The numeral VII was occasionally omitted in Scotland, even by the national church, in deference to protests that the previous Edwards were English kings who had “been excluded from Scotland by battle”. . ◼ J. B. Priestley recalled, “I was only a child when he succeeded Victoria in 1901, but I can testify to his extraordinary popularity. He was in fact the most popular king England had known since the earlier 1660s.” . . . #HisMajesty #EdwardVII #KingEdwardVII #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheKing #History #Onthisdayinhistory #London #kensingtonpalace #buckinghampalace #OsborneHouse #Balmoral #RoyalCollection #GreatBritain #British #Thisdayinhistory #D22Jan #TheYear1901 #OnThisDay #Royalhistory #instahistory (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oRxaJg6Ha/?igshid=1u797gb3lct2g

Some facts about Queen Victoria; . ◼ In 1843 & 1845, Victoria and Albert stayed with King Louis Philippe I at château d'Eu in Normandy; she was the first British or English monarch to visit a French one since the meeting of Henry VIII of England & Francis I of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. . ◼ When Louis Philippe made a reciprocal trip in 1844, he became the first French king to visit a British sovereign. Louis Philippe was deposed in the revolutions of 1848, & fled to exile in England. . 👑 On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria #HerMajesty #HouseofHanover #PrinceAlbert #Godsavethequeen #BritishMonarchy #OnThisDay #Instaroyals #instahistory #Royalhistory #Kingoffrance #louisphilippe #Normandy #HenryVIII #Kinghenryviii #Tudorhistory #Kingfrancisi #kingfrancis #historic #heritage #Victorian (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oRNwUg6wI/?igshid=3j0js6gpb9mh

Some facts about Queen Victoria; . . 👑 Her first born, a daughter, also named Victoria, was born on 21 November 1840. . ◼ The Queen hated being pregnant, viewed breast-feeding with disgust, & thought newborn babies were ugly 😀 . ◼ Nevertheless, over the following seventeen years, she & Albert had a further eight children: Albert Edward, (b. 1841), Alice (b. 1843), Alfred (b. 1844), Helena (b. 1846), Louise (b. 1848), Arthur (b. 1850), Leopold (b. 1853) and Beatrice (b. 1857). . . 👑 On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria #HerMajesty #HouseofHanover #BritishMonarchy #PrinceAlbert #Godsavethequeen #edwardviii #houseofsaxecoburgandgotha #Victorian #VictoriaandAlbert #kensingtonpalace #Osbornehouse #Britain #greatbritain #VictorianEra #Edwardian #royalfamily #Royalhistory #Royalfamily #Instaroyals #instahistory #onthisday (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oPzIfgZt-/?igshid=d6r02vsea8io

Some facts about Queen Victoria; . . 👑 On 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, & Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. . 👑 In her diary she wrote, “I was awoke at 6 o'clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury & Lord Conyngham were here & wished to see me. I got out of bed & went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing gown) & alone, & saw them. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, & had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, & 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 & not used again. . . 👑 On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria  #HerMajesty #HouseofHanover #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #Victorian #Art #RoyalArt #Majesty #majestic #TheQueen #VictorianEra #historyfacts #Historic #throne #Crown #Monarch #onthisday #Royalfamily #royalhistory #Thequeen #britishmonarch #portraitpainting . Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 visit @royalcollectiontrust (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oOfAtgSOh/?igshid=1poo0rknvf57y

King Edward VII . Accession . The new king; . ◼ One of the first things he did was donating his parents' house, Osborne on the Isle of Wight, to the state, he continued to live at Sandringham. . ◼ He could afford to be magnanimous; his private secretary, Sir Francis Knollys, claimed that he was the first heir to succeed to the throne in credit. . ◼ Edward's coronation had originally been scheduled for 26 June. However, two days before on 24 June, he was diagnosed with appendicitis. Appendicitis was generally not treated operatively & carried a high mortality rate, but developments in anaesthesia & antisepsis in the preceding 50 years made life-saving surgery possible. Sir Frederick Treves, with the support of Lord Lister, performed a then-radical operation of draining a pint of pus from the infected abscess through a small incision (through 4½ inch thickness of belly fat and abdomen wall); this outcome showed thankfully that the cause was not cancer. The next day, Edward was sitting up in bed, smoking a cigar. Two weeks later, it was announced that the King was out of danger. . ◼ Treves was honoured with a baronetcy (which Edward had arranged before the operation) & appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream. . ◼ Edward was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902 by the 80-year-old Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, who died only four months later. . ◼ Edward refurbished the royal palaces, reintroduced the traditional ceremonies, such as the State Opening of Parliament, that his mother had forgone, & founded new honours, such as the Order of Merit, to recognise contributions to the arts & sciences. . ◼ As king, Edward's main interests lay in the fields of foreign affairs & naval & military matters. Fluent in French and German, he made a number of visits abroad, & took annual holidays in Biarritz & Marienbad . Edward reigned as king from  22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. . . . #hisMajesty #EdwardVII #KingEdwardVII #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheKing #History #queenAlexandra #Thisdayinhistory #Onthisdayinhistory #D22Jan #TheYear1901 (at Osborne House) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8t2yOFTkT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15p82cchfkk1j

Some facts about Victoria; . . 👑 Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy". Her mother was extremely protective, & Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess & her ambitious & domineering comptroller, Sir John Conroy, who was rumoured to be the Duchess's lover. . 👑 The system prevented the princess from meeting people whom her mother & Conroy deemed undesirable (including most of her father's family), & was designed to render her weak & dependent upon them. . 👑 Victoria shared a bedroom with her mother every night, studied with private tutors to a regular timetable, & spent her play-hours with her dolls & her King Charles spaniel, Dash. . . ◼ On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria #HerMajesty #HouseofHanover #London #British #kensingtonpalace #Buckinghampalace #greatbritish #Britain #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #History #historyfacts #Royalcollection #britishroyals 📷Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8zcTdlmvI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=190cqm40r2kr1