Sign up. Share this page. Popular titles. Britain's Royal Heritage Buy. Learn more about kings and queens Show more books. Unsteady Crowns Buy. Thorns in the Crown Buy. The Duke Buy. In the waning days of the 19th century, the United Kingdom was the most powerful country on earth. The British Empire was at its imperial zenith. She sought to return England to the Catholic Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most powerful and influential figures of the Middle Ages.
Inheriting a vast estate at the age of 15 made her the most sought-after bride of her generation. She would eventually become the queen of France, the queen of England and He famously married a series of six wives in his search for political alliance, marital bliss and a healthy male heir.
His desire to By her death in , She also commissioned several portraits. She became an Indophile in part because of her affection for him. Victoria died after a lengthy period of poor health on January 22, , at the age of We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
She celebrated 65 years on the throne in February with her Sapphire Jubilee. Elizabeth I was a long-ruling queen of England, governing with relative stability and prosperity for 44 years. The Elizabethan era is named for her. Victoria Woodhull was a spiritualist, activist, politician and author who was the first woman to run for the presidency of the United States.
In the Scottish throne went to Mary, Queen of Scots, a controversial monarch who became France's queen consort and claimed the English crown.
She was executed by Queen Elizabeth I in Prince Albert married his first cousin, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, at the age of 20, and after his untimely death at age 42, the queen's memory of him guided her for the next 40 years.
Victoria Beckham rose to fame in the s as a member of the Spice Girls. She is also known for her successful fashion empire and her marriage to former soccer star David Beckham. To the rest of the royal family, Victoria was merely the daughter of a minor brother, nothing more than a pawn to be eventually traded in marriage.
The child later known as Queen Victoria was born in the midst of a succession crisis. The English looked to Princess Charlotte as the hope for their country, in contrast to her debauched, spendthrift uncles and spinster aunts. When she became pregnant by her popular husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, the people were delighted. But after 50 hours of labour, she produced a stillborn baby boy. Within hours, she had fallen into a fatal fever and died. The country was grief-stricken, and the politicians began panicking over the lack of an heir.
In the hope that parliament would pay off their huge debts, the dukes embarked on a race to marry and produce children. Despite her doubts and his debts, the two were happy, and Victoire soon fell pregnant. Instead, on the actual day, the Archbishop of Canterbury stood with the child over the font, waiting for the Prince Regent to inform him of her name.
Her first name was Alexandrina, after the Tsar even the Regent dared not anger the Russian ruler by refusing it , but she quickly became known by her middle name — Victoria. By December, Kent had accepted his debts were insurmountable and moved his family to a cheaper house in Sidmouth, on the Devon coast. It was a bitter winter, and in early January, after returning from one of his outdoor walks soaked to the bone, the Duke took to his bed with a chill.
Victoria was just eight months old. The year-old Duchess was impoverished and desperate. Her brother Leopold persuaded the begrudging Prince Regent to allow her rooms in Kensington Palace and she took with her John Conroy, a handsome Irishman who had been equerry to the Duke. On 29 January , the day that the Duchess arrived at the palace, the poor mad King George finally died.
After the Dukes of York and Clarence, baby Victoria was next in line to the throne. Kensington Palace was then cold, gloomy and shabby — and the life Victoria led there was little better. The Duchess and John Conroy were absolutely united in a quest to make Victoria their slave. Both were convinced that Victoria would become queen and their dearest hope was that she would ascend as a minor, so the Duchess could be Regent and gather power and riches for herself and her dear friend.
If, however, she succeeded after the age of 18, they wished to ensure that she would give up all power to them. The Kensington System was a cruel regime of bullying and, most of all, surveillance.
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