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Queen Victoria Research Paper

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Her family influence, which helped her gain her initial understanding of the protocols of royalty and how the public should perceive royalty. Queen Victoria was the only child to parents Edward, the Duke of Kent, and Princess Victoria, of Saxe-Coburg. She was born on the 24th of May in the year of 1819 in Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom. Victoria had many negative influences in her life; this included her mother and her mother’s adviser Sir John. Victoria never had a positive influence, as a child as her father, Edward, the Duke of Kent, would fulfil that role but was unable as he alas died when Victoria was only 8 months old. Victoria illustrates that her childhood was notably dreary. She spent many of her days filled with various …show more content…

This process sucked the fun out of the Kensington palace. Victoria’s childhood turned rather unhappy and heavily protected. Growing up without a positive influence affected Victoria greatly. She was a passionate and very headstrong young girl whom was also lonely and isolated. Victoria was beginning to enter the mindset that she was a naughty child. This has been seen on two separate occasions. The first was seen in her behaviour book entry on Monday the 25th of September 1832, at age 13, Victoria paints in words herself as “very, very, very, very, horribly naughty!!!!!”. The second occasion is an early reminiscence connected to Kensington Palace, Victoria recalls “being told that if I cried and was naughty my ‘Uncle Sussex’ would hear me and punish me, for which reason I always screamed when I saw him!” When Victoria came to the throne, influence prevailed from her childhood experiences, as she could not make decisions without consulting with another person of power, whether that was Lord Melbourne or Prince Albert. She blames this mainly due to the influence and control that the Kensington system had over Victoria physically as well as

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