Queen Victoria Essay

She was born princess of Austria, Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna to her mother, Maria Theresa, empress of Austria, and father, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, both head of the Hapsburg dynasty. In 1770 at the young age of 15, she married a French prince who would soon come to be King Louis XVI of France, in order to help build a stronger alliance between Austria and France, making her the Queen of France in 1774 as a teenager.

The world today consists of children roaming the streets, technology taking over the world, and being able to work wherever you'd like but, could you imagine a life without all these things? Believe it or not there was a time in life where these things were very uncommon to see. This would be known as the victorian era. This time period was between 1837 and 1901. Daily life was very different from now. Health, social classes, and fashion are just three examples of how daily life was different in the victorian era.

Known as The Golden Age in English history, the 45 year rule of Queen Elizabeth I turned the declining country of England, into one of the most powerful and prosperous countries in the world.

Abigail Adams was a woman of high character and a loving soul. She was selfless in her thinking and remarkable in the way she handled people. Her management skills were above average for the normal female in the 1700s. She held many worldly interests that tied her to the political fashion of society. She was well cultured and was able to apply this to her role of a politician’s wife with great attributes towards society. She became the “buffer” with regard to her husband's temper and lack of diplomacy. She participated in many political activities. Her independent thinking, character, faithfulness, and hard work gave her the ability to succeed in society in the 17th century. Even though Abigail Adams was not formerly

Although the UK Prime Minister is elected separately through Parliamentary elections, unlike the USA President, there is a trend for Prime Ministers to claim popular authority on the basis of electoral victory. Prime Ministers have therefore become the ideological consciences of their

Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, in Kensington Palace in London. Her parents were Edward, the Duke of Kent, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. When Queen Victoria was 8 months old her father passed away, and her mother reacted by shunning Victoria's uncles on her father’s side, William IV and George IV. Having had a secluded upbringing her personality hardened and she grew into having strong prejudices towards others and became very stubborn. She was also inclined to self-pity. Her mother's advisor Sir John Conroy twisted her childhood from her. He was the one who had convinced her mother to shun the uncles, and convinced her to raise Victoria by the "Kensington system." This system isolated Victoria from most, and, in Conroy's hopes, would make her depend on him to rule the country. When both her uncle's passed away before succeeding the throne, at 18 years old she became the Queen, and she did so alone. The one thing her mother did teach her was to be cautious in who she friended. Victoria's memory held firm of those who mistreated her, and she was not one to 'forgive and forget'. Queen Victoria disagreed with some of the traditions and values that had been around. For one she hated childbirth and everything to do with children, yet she was supposed to represent motherhood and family and she did. Even though she

In the text, “Letter to Queen Victoria”, written by Lin Zexu in 1839, he implores the Queen of Great Britain, Queen Victoria, to stop her subjects from selling opium to the Chinese public. Zexu does so by exemplifying the past relationship of China and Britain, by moral persuasion, and by warnings and threats. However, Lin Zexu’s assumption of calling British subjects as Barbarian and compliant to Chinese rule ineffectively persuades.

Crown Princess Victoria Ka’iulani Cleghorn was born on October 16, 1875 to Princess Miriam Likelike and Scottish businessman Archibald Scott Cleghorn as the highest born ali’i (noble) of her generation and was, at the time, fourth in line for

1891 and was later put under house arrest for several months. On January 17, 1893 Queen Lydia

The father to James Monroe was Spence Monroe, who worked as a carpenter and planter. His mother was an educated woman known as Elizabeth Jones. He had one sister and three brothers. James later married Elizabeth Kortright. He bore daughters Eliza and Maria Hester.

Victoria Claflin was born September 23, 1838 in Homer, Ohio. She was the daughter of Buck Claflin and Anna Claflin. In her later years she had painted her childhood as white picket fence, perfect home, but, in reality it was far from it. Her dad was the town's crook, and her mother was looked at differently because of her ability to speak with spirits, a talent that Victoria found she also had. From a young age she possessed great leadership skills. Her nickname was "the

Cleopatra’s inheritance of her father’s throne came through difficult and trying times. Cleopatra’s mother is unknown, but her father was King Auletes Ptolemy XII. King Ptolemy XII was a descendant of

Born on May 24th, 1819, Queen Victoria was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and King George III’s fourth son, and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld, Princess of Leiningen. Although King George III fathered fifteen children, his eight daughters lived either childless or unwed; out of his seven sons, three married and only one spawned a child, Princess Charlotte. Because of Princess Charlotte’s fatality during childbirth, Victoria was born so an heir was animate. At the age of eight months, Queen Victoria’s father and grandfather passed away; therefore, her mother and chief steward of the house raised her and devised the Kensington System to shelter, monitor, and protect her. Upon the day of June 20th, when Victoria the age of eighteen, the childless King William IV passed away, coronating Victoria as the monarch.

On June 20, 1837, just four months after her eighteenth birthday, Victoria was paid a visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Conyngham. (Chamberlain) These men informed her of her Uncle William’s death, but then bowed before her honoring their new Queen. Her coronation day was set for June 28, 1838. (Kirwan, 190) Victoria came to the throne, the people of

Born on 24 May, 1819 in Kensington Palace, Alexandrina Victoria was the only daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe-Coburg. At birth, Victoria was the fifth in line after her father and his three older brothers. Eight months after her birth, her father had died and she was the next in line as her three uncles before her had no legitimate children who survived. In 1830 after her uncle George IV died, she became heiress presumptive next to her surviving uncle, William IV. The Regency Act of 1830 made special provision for the Duchess of Kent to act as her regent just in case William died while Victoria was still a minor. King William in 1836 declared in the Duchess’ presence that he wanted to live until