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Coronation ticket issued to Victoria's mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent. Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle King William IV on 20 June 1837. [1] Her first prime minister was Lord Melbourne, with whom she developed a close personal friendship. [2]
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By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, [23] the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. [24]
Case in point: Queen Victoria's coronation invitation, which was sent in 1838. This one, written on parchment and signed by the queen herself, is dated May 9, 1838—a mere days before her 19th ...
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 10 February 1840. She chose to wear a white wedding dress made from heavy silk satin, making her one of the first women to wear white for their wedding. [1] [2] The Honiton lace used for her wedding dress proved an important boost to Devon lace-making.
At Queen Victoria’s coronation, the clergyman forced it onto the wrong finger, and the 19-year-old queen wrote that she had “the greatest difficulty” in getting it off her swollen digit, and ...
1837 dress. During the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, the ideal shape of the Victorian woman was a long slim torso emphasised by wide hips. To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4]
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