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Posted: 11 Aug 2023

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A Young Queen Victoria in 1842

A Young Queen Victoria in 1842

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 Dinesh
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Farce and tragedy had already turned to pantomime on the accession of the Prince Regent as George IV en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV at the end of January 1820. His father, mad and blind, and bearded like a prophet, had been suspended somewhere between the living and the dead. He spoke to the dead as if they were still alive, and of the living as if they had been interred. His death on 29 January 1820 made nothing happen except to elevate his son to the throne. A new member of the strange family had come into the world in the preceding year. Alexandria Victoria was better known by her second name. She was the daughter of Prince Edward, fourth son of George III, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Her mother’s family were all Germans, and she took pride in that fact; she married a German, and German was often the language of her court at Windsor and elsewhere. ~ Page 23

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The king had died at just the right moment, a month after Victoria had come to age. Thus the young queen was disencumbered of all the courtiers, attendants, relatives and politicians who would have taken advantage of the regency to influence her. The young women enjoyed to the full her newly discovered freedom. ‘Since it has pleased Providence to put me in this station,’ she wrote, ‘I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duty towards my country. I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more read good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right that I have.’ ~ Page 106
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 William Sutherland
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Masterful painting!

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 Rosalyn Hilborne
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It is a beautiful painting. I'm not keen on Peter Ackroyd. I think there are better historians.
Thank you for such and interesting series though Dinesh.
10 months ago.

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