Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

[An Ard Ri]

1849 Queen Victoria's First Visit to Ireland

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece...ry-in-images/#

[CyrilVladisla]

Did Queen Victoria resent her daughter-in-law Princess Alexandra's Danish loyalties?

[Curryong]

I don’t think she regarded a Danish family connection with much favour anyway as I believe she would have preferred that her eldest son Bertie had married a German. I think she did rather resent it when Alexandra’s views clashed with her (and the BRF’s) consistent support of Prussia. Her eldest daughter Vicky was of course married to the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich.

That led no doubt to some awkward moments on family occasions after Schleswig/ Holstein was invaded by Prussia soon after Alexandra’s wedding to the Prince of Wales (Bertie). Danes regarded the Duchies as theirs.

[An Ard Ri]

King Louis-Philippe paid a visit to the queen in 1844
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/ob...-object-139771


Queen Victoria also had friendly relations with the family of King Louis-Philippe
https://www.rct.uk/collection/290727...t-and-countess

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Victoria unveiled a statue of Prince Albert. She knighted John Morris, the Mayor of Wolverhampton on November 30, 1866.
http://www.maryevans.com/history/10103304

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Victoria was an only child. How did she have siblings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OglAFx1t7I

[Denville]

Originally Posted by CyrilVladisla

Queen Victoria was an only child. How did she have siblings?

She had a half brother and sister, on her mothers side. that's well known

[Furienna]

She also had a half-brother on her father's side.

Various sources report that the Duke of Kent had mistresses. In Geneva, he had two mistresses, Adelaide Dubus and Anne Moré. Dubus died at the birth of her daughter Adelaide Dubus (1789 – in or after 1832). Anne Gabrielle Alexandrine Moré was the mother of Edward Schenker Scheener (1789–1853). Brought up in Geneva as the ostensible son of Thimothée Schencker, his father promised to find him a post in the UK civil service and in 1809 he was appointed a clerk in the Foreign Office, being retired with a pension in 1826. When his half-sister Victoria became Queen in 1837, with his English wife Harriet Boyn (1781-1852) he returned to Geneva, where he died in 1853. He had no children.

[CyrilVladisla]

Queen Victoria was known as "The Widow of Windsor".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZY76aOC444

[An Ard Ri]

Originally Posted by Furienna

She also had a half-brother on her father's side.

The Duke also had a French Roman Catholic mistress,Madame de Saint-Laurent,Baroness de Fortisson when he was stationed in Quebec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Saint-Laurent

[Prinsara]

Originally Posted by An Ard Ri

The Duke also had a French Roman Catholic mistress,Madame de Saint-Laurent,Baroness de Fortisson when he was stationed in Quebec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Saint-Laurent

They famously had no children, though. She came back to Europe with him, they parted sadly, and they probably would have stayed together if not for the death of his niece Charlotte... Although Charlotte's husband Leopold, who was a friend (although I guess not to Madame), had suggested that Edward marry his widowed sister Victoire, the Princess of Leiningen, even prior to that.