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Alexandrina Victoria, best known as Queen Victoria, in a photo taken by Roger Fenton in 1854, colorized by me for The Colour of Time. She was born #OnThisDay in 1819, 200 years ago.
"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them." #QueenVictoria200
"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them." #QueenVictoria200
Victoria first learned of her future role as a young princess during a history lesson when she was 10 years old. Almost four decades later Victoria’s governess recalled that the future queen reacted to the discovery by declaring, “I will be good.”
This combination of earnestness and egotism marked Victoria as a child of the age that bears her name.
Although she hated pregnancy and childbirth, detested babies, and was uncomfortable in the presence of children, Victoria reigned in a society that idealized both motherhood and the family.
Victoria, by her own account, “was brought up very simply,” principally at Kensington Palace, where her closest companions, other than her German-born mother, were her half-sister, Féodore, and her governess, Louise (afterward the Baroness) Lehzen, a native of Coburg (photo).
Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors and is known as the Victorian era.
Read more: britannica.com/biography/Vict…
Read more: britannica.com/biography/Vict…
“I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.”
-- Queen Victoria
-- Queen Victoria
