Iluvbertie
Imperial Majesty
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She visited very few places compared to Queen Elizabeth - even in Europe. She expected that foreign monarchs would come to her.
Paintings of Queen Victoria as a young woman show her to have had auburn hair with a definite reddish tint to it. Here's a painting of her at ten: https://www.google.com/search?q=queen+victoria+as+a+young+woman&tbm=isch&imgil=DJy0JhaDEfe-zM%253A%253BVbf54bN7aM124M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%25252Fnews%25252Farticle-1220740%25252FVictoria-beauty-queen-The-picture-gave-Albert.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=DJy0JhaDEfe-zM%253A%252CVbf54bN7aM124M%252C_&biw=1920&bih=920&usg=__5JJ-ZXiacjRh2SQMttm6z_FkyYE%3D&ved=0ahUKEwidpaLomLTKAhVQ32MKHTjrA6YQyjcILA&ei=LEqdVp3fCtC-jwO41o-wCg#imgrc=XCW_lcmbbEZHbM%3A&usg=__5JJ-ZXiacjRh2SQMttm6z_FkyYE%3D Her hair darkened as she got older but always had the reddish tint. Princess Beatrice does look a great deal like her.I think Beatrice of York looks quite like the young Queen Victoria, though Victoria's hair was more a golden brown and she had tiny teeth. She was a Hanoverian in that she fought weight gain even in her twenties. Probably a pretty complexion and a silvery voice were her main attractions.
Because we're stuck with portraits when Victoria was young and black and white photographs in her middle and old age it's hard to get a handle on her colouring, which makes a difference.
Given that the Duchess and Victoria were estranged for most of her married life the real question is how much contact she even had with her British grandchildren?