My European Family 2/6/18
Written by Karin Bojs By Grace Wilcox Neanderthals in Leipzig
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The Slave Trade Act
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Queen Victoria of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
By: Grace Wilcox 3/26/18 Alexandrina Victoria was born May 24th 1819 at Kensington Palace in London, the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Prince Edward was the fourth son of the reigning King George the 3rd. The King's only grandchild Princess Charlotte of Wales died in 1817 and created a succession crisis which brought pressure for Prince Edward and his unmarried brothers to marry. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria, a widowed German princess with two children by her first marriage with Prince of Leiningen. Victoria went by her middle name after her mother and her first name was after her godparent the Emperor Alexander 1 of Russia. At birth she was 5th in line for the throne after all of her 4 uncles. Prince regent (George IV) Frederick the duke of York and William the duke of Clarence (William IV) all had no surviving children. Victoria’s father died when she was less than a year old in 1820 and a week later the King her grandfather died and was succeeded by George IV his oldest son. The duke of York died in 1827 then George IV in 1830. William IV became King and Victoria heir presumptive. After her father’s three older brothers had all died she inherited the English throne at age 18. She became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. When she was 21 she married her maternal 1s cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. They had nine children who all married noble families through europe and is nicknamed the grandmother of europe. |