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Why did the Germans rule England instead of the common English?
Once religion became particularly important, a match had to take religion into account. For the Protestant countries that eliminated most of the traditional European"superpowers" that remained Catholic. Most important was"rank". An"important" King or Queen regnant was encouraged to marry a spouse of suitable"rank".
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Queen Elizabeth I vs Queen Victoria - History Forum
Queen Elizabeth is the more interesting figure really, because she occupied a more important position in the state; Victoria virtually withdrew from public life for a long time after Albert's and it made no difference (except to make the monarchy unpopular for a time).
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The accents of British monarchs thru the ages | History Forum
While both her mother, Princess Victoria the Duchess of Kent, and her governess, Luise Lehzen, were German, her mother, whose English was poor, was determined that the young Victoria should speak faultless English in addition to German because of the likelihood of the two people ahead of her in line to the throne dying childless.
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ottoman support for irish people during Irish Potato Famine.
I've read that the sultan Abdumecit I has sent financial support to irish people when they were starving in 1845 , but queen Victoria refused this support just because it was superior and bigger than hers and asked him to send much less to become inferior to victoria's donation. Is this true ...
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Lin Zexu's Letters to Queen Victoria and Emperor Daoguang
The Chinese Repository is a collection of letters published in 1840 about the issue of opium trade in China, particularly that of foreign smuggling by the British. The first letter I chose to focus on is an open letter written to Queen Victoria by Commissioner Lin Zexu in which he requests the end of illegal opium trafficking.
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If King Edward VII had lived could/would World War 1 have been ...
I have been wondering and thinking about this lately after reading books about World War 1, Eroupe during the late 19th-early 20th centry and about Queen Victoria and her Son Edward VII as well as other monarchies at the time. I have read some peoples say that hings might have been different or...
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Princess Victoria learns about Karl Marx | History Forum
Queen Victoria's eldest daughter,who was named Victoria like herself, married Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Prussia, and became Empress of Germany for a few months in 1888. In the 1870's she heard people talking about Karl Marx and his strange ideas, and asked Sir Mounstuart Grant Duff, a British politician with whom she was acquainted, to find out something about him.
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When did Britain become a true constitutional monarchy
Queen Victoria you could say was really the first monarch to reign and not Rule. World War 1 saw the the power of the monarchy became even more limited as the King handed over more power to parliament at the end if the War, That you could say what led to the modern Constitutional Monarchy.
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Was Queen Victoria's first language German? (and her only known voice ...
In Queen Victoria Was Amused, Alan Hardy writes that she recorded her voice on one of the earliest discs in order to convey a greeting to the Emperor Menelek of Ethiopia. He was duly appreciative, stood to attention while listening to it, and had an artillery salute fired in it's honour.
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Victoria doesn't marry - History Forum
If Victoria died in 1901 without surviving children or descendants, her closest heir would have been Ernst Augustus (1845-1923), Crown Prince of Hanover (the kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866) Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale.
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