Queen Victoria was the first in her family to carry hemophilia B, a blood clotting disorder, but the Queen herself was not a hemophiliac. Because of Victoria's vast lineage, the disorder was passed on to the members of royal and noble families across Europe.
A study in Science Magazine even linked the hemophilia mutation to members of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs. The disease claimed several of her descendants: Queen Victoria's son Leopold, the Duke of Albany, died at age 30 after he slipped and fell, and two of Queen Victoria's grandsons— Friedrich and Leopold—also bled to death due to the affliction.
It is believed that the last royal carrier of the disease was Prince Waldemar of Prussia, who died in , Science Magazine reports. The Victorian era was a time of rapid technological advancement and industrialization.
Electricity started to become more common and photography became a popular medium, and rail systems spread across Britain. In , Victoria became the first monarch to ride a train, according to PBS. Not long ago, Queen Victoria held the title of longest reigning British monarch, with a total reign of 63 years and seven months.
As the Queen of England during Britain's imperial height, Queen Victoria inspired the title of everything from lakes and mountains to cities across what was then the empire. The Scene. Type keyword s to search. Getty Images. Her first name wasn't Victoria.
Related Story. Victoria: A Novel by Daisy Goodwin. Oxford — who was later acquitted on grounds of insanity — proved to be the first of many to target the queen while she was driving in her open-top carriage. In , as the carriage slowed down to pass through the gates of Buckingham Palace, retired soldier Robert Pate ran forward and managed to strike the queen sharply on the head with a small cane. Although it transpired that the cane weighed less than three ounces, so could not have done much damage, the incident nonetheless unnerved Victoria.
She escaped several more assassination attempts while riding in her carriage in , and As the prince was aged just 42 and generally enjoyed good health, his death from typhoid was highly unexpected.
It came as a huge blow to the queen, who had been intensely reliant on his support, practically and politically as well as emotionally.
Consumed by grief, Victoria fell into a state of depression and began neglecting her royal duties. As she repeatedly refused to take part in public events, her popularity began to deteriorate. It was not until the s that Victoria was coaxed back into gradually engaging in public life once more.
Despite the decades that passed, Victoria never fully recovered from the loss of Albert. Although she had other intimate relationships — most notably a close friendship with her Scottish servant John Brown — she never remarried.
She continued to wear black and sleep beside an image of Albert, and she even had a set of clothes laid out for him each morning, right up until her own death 40 years later in Her golden and diamond jubilees of and were crucial to restoring her reputation.
As she entered her eighties, Victoria was still actively taking on her royal duties. Yet, after six decades on the throne, her health finally began to decline. The queen had refused to be embalmed, so part of the preparations that followed her death included preparing the coffin to combat the smell and absorb moisture, by scattering coal across its floor.
The queen was buried beside her beloved Prince Albert on 4 February , in the mausoleum the queen had built for her husband at Frogmore , adjoining Windsor Castle. Think you know everything about Queen Victoria? Put your knowledge to the test in our Queen Victoria quiz! Sign in. Back to Main menu Virtual events Masterclasses.
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Popes and archbishops. Under threat? Queens of the modern age. This Day In History. History Vault. She was barely five feet tall. She proposed to her husband, Prince Albert, and not vice versa. She was raised by a single mother, and later became a single mother herself.
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