Queen Victoria's Life After Albert's Death | A Monarch Unveiled (2/2) | Real Royalty

In 1897, Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations were the expression of supreme confidence: she was

queen

of Great Britain, she was empress of India, her empire, in fact, stretched across the world. What made the events so notable was not just the fact that the streets of London were packed with thousands of people chanting "God Save the Queen" as the 78-year-old

monarch

was set to be seen in public. The Widow of Windsor, as she was known, struggled with public appearances because she was shy but also because she was still Austin's handyman. Warning, for 36 years, she had been the embodiment of brief, but appearances can be deceiving.

Behind this well-known image of Victoria lies another story besides that of the heartbroken widow. It was only part of the truth about Victoria, whose marriage had been a source of For both her limitation and her deep love, the loss of her beloved husband and mother was a terrible blow, but it also began a process of liberation for her. a woman who had spent her entire

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under the shadow of dominant men in whom Victoria had been a pawn. a political game as a child and young

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her angel Prince Albert had used her pregnancies as a way to gain power and punished her for resenting her but in her widowhood Victoria, although bereft and deranged, was free to embark on a way of

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and in loves that would last her for decades at her most productive and exciting and, fortunately for us, she put all her feelings on paper, writing more than 50 million words, some of them were considered so shocking by her children that when she died they were destroyed .

Over the past five years reading Queen Victoria's unpublished diaries and letters, I have come to feel that something almost approaching four years behind that sturdy old woman dressed in black sitting at her desk, was a passionate human being and, contrary to what is so often said, she was amused frequently and easily 1861 was Queen Victoria's annus horribilis the

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of her mother and her husband left her distraught she fled London it was assumed that her absence from the capital meant that she could not he was doing nothing left her inept because of the pain in her diary Sheba Wales the loss of her lover her friend her crouch he did everything everywhere I did nothing I did without him from the biggest of the smallest my first word was I must ask Albert in her delirium she turned the man she had often resented and fought with into a demigod which Victoria What I did not

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ize at age 42 was that the marriage had infantilized their marriage.

Dozens of lies from Fanta. People had come to trust Albert with absolutely everything. He doesn't see him first thing in the morning and tell him what dress I should wear. In politics and in personal life he had restricted and controlled her and now her life was over but her life was not over little by little she would flap her wings and become free and her first small steps towards freedom were taken here in Cobourg in modern-day Germany her homeland in the birthplace of Alberto and his mother she confessed her long-lasting romance with Germany in her diary if I were not who I am my true home would be here Victoria was 3/4 German she idolized the land and the people the very air smelled of Albert and she breathed it when she began to return to Cobourg, her brothers or Ernst Alber's brother expected her to stay with him in her grandfather's rock palace in the center of the city, Schloss Arenberg, but she preferred to be here dressed in dental floss.

Rosa is now a beautiful hunting lodge about five miles from the town where Albert was born, it is a place full of memories of her childhood, surrounded by tranquility, it is the hills and the forests, she certainly was inconsolably heartbroken and you can see here a guestbook page he wrote. in 1862 Victoria Regina, the desolate we make of my beloved Albert, a direct descendant of Prince Albert, keeps the line alive today in nearby Josh Kallenberg pubertus is the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, so let's enter the house of the treasure, one of the rooms here. Please, you are wonderful, thank you very much, use great-great-grandson, yes, that's right, this is where we show family relations between the sexes, the Komelkova family and the British.

There is a wonderful winter house. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, that was after he came to Britain, yes, yes, it wasn't literally, he says she is a fortune, yes, look at this beautiful painting, she wasn't dressed very well but she had great jewelry , that's what the French didn't know when it was. Paris, yes, after she withered, she became even more attached to Germany, even more aware of her German roots. After Prince Albert's

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, she was still very much in love with Germany and especially the shared work, and she returned to open a monument to Albert here in 1865 in the market.

There was also one of the few public appearances she apparently made afterwards. her death, oh yes, Victoria had always loved melodrama since her days as a young queen and now, on her morning, she made her loss clear by seeing her dressed in black, she wished everyone They will enter into her pain, dr. Anglo-German relations expert Karina Orbach sheds light on Victoria's behavior after Albert's death, she is such a bad psychologist because Albert told her not to overdo it please when I'm gone and she does exactly the opposite , puts him on his pedestal. He drags his kids into the room once a year, the room he died in, and she keeps preaching to him all the time about how wonderful he was and it's absolutely ridiculous because the kids, of course, hate him after a while and resent him for it. everything about this idealized father, so he achieves the complete opposite, she came back to turbo again and again yes, I think she would have loved to live in the little cabin in Germany, it was Albert, that was her idea and it was home , it was the act of the home, right? she feels relaxed because when she speaks German she can be a different person in her English identity, she has to be a German graduate, she simply rejects how, as Albert calls her, she grieving Victoria could have been, but inept, she certainly she wasn't. about to demonstrate her political astuteness in Germany then was not a unified country as we know it today Germany was simply a if the question was whether the various small Dutch and German city-states would unite in a peaceful federation or allow themselves to be intimidated. by the Kingdom of North Prussia to become a modern militaristic nation which was the central political drama of the victorious times and in that drama tree took center stage in the summer of 1863 the Queen came here to Edinburgh Castle while she was here he stood between The twin camps of Prussia and Austria before any of his diplomats were his first important activities since he became a widow.

She felt so nervous being pregnant and I was alone. I no longer have my beloved Albert to guide me, encourage me, advise me and guide me through great difficulty. Here, in the Giant's Hall where Victoria's parents were married, we meet Victoria, the diplomat, meeting none other than the Emperor of Austria and together they toasted the unity of Germany, so early in her widowhood we find Victoria alone but nonetheless an independent woman who negotiated not particularly on behalf of England, but on behalf of a peaceful Europe. Victoria had found the inner strength to exercise her power and carry out Alberto's political work on her own.

In this case, she is a sort of referee and she wants to bring these two together. The German leaders, the Emperor of Austria and then William of Prussia, and she thinks there should be some rapprochement and some understanding between the two. She still hopes for a peaceful solution to the German question. I am enjoying that period if you had asked many. The editors of English newspapers, while the Queen was doing, would have said that she is drawn to the dream, she is drawn to the underground, she is not doing anything, in fact, she was deeply politically engaged in Germany, yes, I think that's when one underestimates her because she hides in black and So, and one does not understand that she had her secondary channels and was very involved in this secondary channel work and saw herself thanks to Alberto as well as being diplomatic in many ways.

It is interesting at this time that we see the British Queen become involved through her own marriage and the marriages of her children, so intimately involved in European politics this time, British politicians complained that their

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was too tearful. To be lonely, she wasn't doing her job, she wasn't interested in the main political issues, but Victoria was looking at the future of Europe itself, which seems to me much less provincial, much less narrow than the things that many of the ministers of her country wanted. cabinet, and his role in all this was fundamental, the future of Germany was literally in dispute between members of his own family and his eldest daughter.

Vicky married to the crown prince of Prussia and Bertie married to the princess of Denmark Victoria was caught in the middle of the war between these neighboring states. Oh, Bertie's wife was only a good German and not a Dane, not as far as the influence of politics is concerned, but as far as the peace and harmony of the family is concerned, it is terrible to have the poor child in the wrong side. The personal was the political. For Victoria, intensely German, she nevertheless felt, as all mothers would regret, that her family was on opposite sides of the political divide while Victoria showed her strength on the world stage by getting involved in European wars of global importance.

She was also finding freedom at home in her personal life when she was young. I had always looked for father figures, from the flirtatious Lord Melbourne to his angel Albert, now that I had another man by my side I feel that I have here and always in the house a good and devoted soul whose only object and interest is my service and God knows how much I wish to be taken care of these are the words that 45 year old Victoria wrote about Albert's servant in the Highlands, a gentleman. John Brown, who was brought from Balmoral to attend Victoria as a husband in 1864.

I truly believe that if it had not been for the Scottish Highlands and John Brown's friendship in those ten years after Prince Albert's death, the Queen Victoria would have gone. staring angrily, he had always loved it here in Scotland since his first visits to Albert and the ineffectual nature of the Highlanders made such a refreshing change after the suffocation of Windsor and Buckingham Palace and so it was that the bearded, stooped John Brown, 7 years old, her youngest, became Victoria's next male dependency as her closest companion and best friend. Raymond laments that Brown is the official biographer of the Highland servant.

She spent much more time with John Brown than with anyone else. Yes, he was sure he was born like any member of his family. Yes, that's true. He cared for her every time she needed it. He understood her very well. I think something that her family and her ministers didn't understand was that although she was surrounded by people all the time, she felt very alone and John Brown told her quite openly, I think, "You're just a little loner." that she needs to be taken out of herself and that's exactly what he did, in a way he got her out of her depression, he became a walking encyclopedia of what Queen Victoria liked and what she didn't like, neuroses, etc., he dedicated his life to her he never went on vacation and was always there for her in some way it was an even greater commitment than the one Albert made in his wedding vows it was an absolute service yes yes Albert, of course, had had his own agenda or it was the things he did, but for John Brown from dawn to dusk, his agenda was Queen Victoria, along with Brown's devotion to the Queen came a gruffness and complete disregard for taught etiquette, something that Brown could see that Victoria enjoyed his steely appearance while these.

The qualities of bronze infuriated the family, they were precisely the things that made him the ideal companion for Victoria, the great man that Albert had been, he had always been sickly and fussy, he did not share his wife's love for Gosling and drink. , while Brown loved his whiskey. He was often drunk he liked to pour whiskey into the Queen's milk, I can see, don't stay thirsty. Victoria wouldn't believe what I'm about to say, but Brown freed her from Albert, he freed her with a capacity for hedonism and fun, and she reveled in it. in it, cheerio Victoria found freedom in her friendship with the most unlikely of characters who rode laughing across Osmond's grounds with Brown, where she had been repressed in her childhood by the cruel works of Sir John Conroy and had fought with a husband authoritarian and intriguing. she loved the openness and dedication of the brand to her and only her, it is a

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comfort to Brown, he is devoted to me, so simple, so intelligent and so different from a common servant, no one could talk to Victoria like John Brown did it, he kept her under control.

On one occasion when a footman came into the room with a tray and the poor child dropped it, the Queen burst into anger, she said thatThey were supposed to send him off to the kitchens, but John Brown immediately intervened, woman, what are you doing? Make that pearl, dad, oh, you needed something for yourself. The lackey was reinstated. The straight-talking Scot had bought the Queen of England in his place and she enjoyed it, but not only did she enjoy Brown's directness, it also filled a deep emotional need in Victoria, on the fourth anniversary of the Alberto's death, she completely defied. convention by bringing Braun to pay his respects, but Albert's mother Liam's writings from that day showed how significant Brown's response was to Victoria when she came to my room later, he was so affected that he said in his own way simple and expressive with such a tender look of Pity as tears rolled down her cheeks I didn't like seeing you at Frogmore this morning I felt sorry for you but what could I do for you?

She Could Die for You I don't think anyone could have replaced Prince Albert, but she needs some kind of male crutch and John Brown claimed that what came next showed the contradictory nature of Victoria's character. The woman who shunned the public decided to share her thoughts with all of us who tend to think. that Diana Princess of Wales invented the concept of feeling my pain but Queen Victoria fell there before her with her decision to publish extracts from her Private Diaries sheets from the Diary of Our Life in the Highlands came out in 1868 and were a bestseller instant no The monarch had published a book before this, she was totally at odds with Victoria, the weeping widow, the diaries chronicle her life of outdoor frivolity, she felt truly euphoric in the open landscape of the Highlands, but the local dances and at the annual Highland Games the games began around three o'clock. o'clock she writes one throwing the hammer two throwing the caber three putting the stone a pretty wild sight but the men seemed very cold there is nothing their shirts and kilts flowed wonderfully the newspapers are quite soft things the remarkable thing about them is that they published, they are good books, they are bound in Boston green gold and very soon they sold more than one hundred thousand copies.

However, there is one person who could be named as the hero of the book and that, of course, is John. Brown, but the children barely look and were not very happy, but it seemed that Victoria did not know that. Instead, she wrote to her older Vicky asking for validation of the book. You've never said a word about my poor little Highlandburg, my only book. I had hoped you and Fritz would have liked it. The reason Vicky might have avoided the topic was that her mother's unabashed adoration of the color brown was leading to scandal. A defamatory pamphlet entitled John Brown's Legs appeared in New York and is dedicated to those extraordinary pig-bruised legs. and dear scratches, here is the Queen looking at a damaged knee, my God, what knee are we getting out of John Brown's kilt, once they laugh at this, it is that while the American was writing this pamphlet, the Queen herself was writing a third. volume of leaves from our life in the highlands in effect biography of John Brown the cause and the politicians were absolutely horrified and someone has to be delegated to tell him that the book was completely inappropriate they elected the poor young dean of Windsor and he came in and He told the Queen that it really wasn't a good idea to write these memoirs of his life.

He was brown, it would be misunderstood. He burst into anger, however, he followed the young man's advice and the matter was never mentioned again. I wonder if it still survives somewhere in Windsor in those archives or if Princess Beatrice the wrecker destroyed it thanks to Victoria's youngest daughter Beatrice, there are no traces of the queen's life with John Brown in her voluminous diaries They remained silent as their children intended to erase Brown and anything else. Considered inadequate by history, its poignancy is sad that a writer and recorder as eager for her times as Queen Victoria has had her words suppressed, and of course the suppression has on us precisely the opposite effect to that which it was intended to produce. instead of making us forget.

About John Brown and Victoria we are obsessed with the subject. What we do know is that by favoring Brown, Victoria showed herself to be a woman desperate for company regardless of the social cost that comes a long way from her days as Albert's submissive wife with Brown. Free to do whatever he wanted, of course, people suspected him of sleeping with Victoria. There's a bit of a feminist problem here. If she had been a male monitor who was going to paper the salon maid, no one would have batted an eyelid. The idea of ​​a woman crossing the class barrier was what truly horrified them, especially as rumors grew about a secret marriage or even a love child between the Queen and her Highland servant, a man who was probably a One of the few people in the world who ever knew the whole truth about her relationship with Braun was her last doctor, Sir James Reid.

Oh my God, Michela, Mrs. Reid is married to her grandson. He kept a diary. Well, the forty little doors are here, look, their writing was tiny, if you read a lot, it really requires a magnifying glass yes, this is a March one, this is the Queen and Brahmas, yes, it has a fool, they went up and down the stairs. Brown and the Queen was brown, of course, she wore it, she read, she was not so much blood, sir. He plays well, he was allowed to offer his arm, but I mean, he wasn't allowed to examine me and he certainly wouldn't be allowed to pick me up, yeah, yeah, and they were laughing about it all and thinking it was so funny and then the next day. she says the queen walked a bit in the brown room lifts her kilt and says it's there and lifts her skirt laughing and says no it's here she was moving her big man yes yes yes I think she's pointing to those days yes yes obviously They were very intimate, is there a feeling in the Reid family that dr.

The new little nature of Reid's relationship is a feeling and we used to make fun of Grandma, calling her his widow about John Brown and the relationship and she would always have to round up if she just laughed and dismissed it, what do you think I don't? I don't think they were married. I didn't even think they had an immoral affair. I think they expressed their feelings so much in public. If they had had an affair, they would have been more circumspect. Partridge, there is also the trend of physical details that we now know. Navigators have dr.

Reid examined his body after his death. It's not there? Yes, she had a prolapsed uterus which would have made any form of sexual intercourse extremely painful, probably impossible, so I don't think it was that kind of relationship and I certainly don't think she would have had a child because she was oh no, that It's absurd, absurd, I wish it had been said how is it that when someone knows the moment when I wrote about Queen Victoria, they have always asked me the same question: what was the relationship between John Brown and where? they love us and I'm afraid to say this about that question I'm a complete agnostic, it's clearly not a relationship like that between her and Albert she was so open about loving Brown about wanting Ron to hug her and behave in public and Laugh with her, but I'm sure there wasn't some kind of secret relationship undercover, Darion.

I think the most likely thing if you really wanted to force me to make a decision is that they had a tactile loving relationship that involved a lot of cuddling, but they weren't. t lovers in the true sense of the word Victoria was never conventional despite giving her name to an era of propriety and prudery. Victoria was anything but when she loved the frankness of brown, she couldn't stand those who were reserved around her, so when the Liberal Prime Minister EE came to her, we were destined to have no tolerance whatsoever, sir. Gastón is a very dangerous and very arrogant man, tyrannical and obstinate, with no knowledge of the world or human nature.

Victoria was not one to beat around the bush, she used every weapon in her arsenal, her psychological and physical illnesses to combat what she believed were attacks. by the Liberals about the monarchy itself, her undisguised loss of this humorless intellectual statesman showed how self-assured Queen Victoria could be. Gladstone was uncomfortable with the queen and, like her hero, Prime Minister Robert Peel, he did not have the best way with women for thirty years. After her run-in with Peel, Victoria proved to be as belligerent toward Gladstone as she had been in her youth. One such case occurred in the summer of 1869, when the Mayor of London and Gladstone asked him to open the new Blackfriars Bridge.

The Queen is determined to get out of this and the drama continued throughout the summer and autumn. Gladstone was the brunt of most of the Queen's emotional outbursts; she thought she had expressed clearly that it was impossible for her to open the Blackfriars Bridge, but as a lord. Gladstone still seemed to doubt that he would repeat his sincere regret that she should not think of doing such a thing in the middle of summer; The republicans, the press, but also the enthusiastic monarchies, asked themselves the same question: the country functioned perfectly well with a head of state who spent most of her year in Balmoral or the Isle of Wight, why did we need a monico?

And it was to silence that question that the Prime Minister, Mr. Blessin, was determined to parade the little woman on this bridge and she was equally determined not to be intimidated and not to be pressured as July moved between her sinking heels. The Queen is very surprised that they are once again mocking and tormenting about this bridge that three weeks ago was almost asked by Mr. She danced and refused to open it saying that the fatigue of all this was too great, it was a day to bite everyone due to mood swings when the event arrived.

Victoria decided that she could open the bridge, but what a pain she was. had caused by doing so frequently caught in the crossfire between Gladstone and his Queen was his private secretary Colonel Henry punts and I his great-granddaughter Laura Ponsonby is the keeper of many letters written by Victoria's idiosyncratic hand the Queen's handwriting incredibly difficult to read, I think I'm getting worse by leaving the twins' desk every 10 minutes. My feeling is that yes, I found Queen Victoria almost impossible to deal with, while Henry Ponsonby was much better at dealing with any thoughts about me. I knew what he was doing, I think.

In a way, he did everything he could to try to make the Queen more reasonable, what about some? But she was very, very critical of him. Henry Paulson perhaps knew better than to contradict her. There was a famous story about him, but he says when I say. two and two make four Queen Victoria says no, it makes five and then he said no the game. I think they're fooling around and she says no, you're wrong, so he said, I'll drop it, I'll drop it and then we'll go back to and then it's okay, he knew if he said no, Queen Victoria would immediately dig her hills in the new Henry Paulson, but Marta, she could be absolutely impossible, of course, but he managed to cope and, of course, had great common sense. in humor, I think that was what saved him, wasn't it hate?

Look how funny she was, that's right, and she made everyone at the table laugh, she said she looks around like Queen Victoria and she's absolutely, you know, giggling, she's known for real crazy laughter and you start You start laughing and then your eyes fill with tears, you shake and all this kind of laughter comes out, she had a lot of food in her butt, didn't she? Yes, she had a lot of Korea, she always did. the fight rules, yes dad, Sam wasn't particularly human, I guess not, it was Victoria's strange mix of humor and hysteria that the politicians couldn't come to terms with, so they feared for her sanity and you can see why the establishment were concerned when you look at the tour packages between the Queen and Mrs Langston, when Gladys went to live at Balmoral he was uncomfortable and would not speak to the Queen, she often refused to speak to him to that they corresponded well, they both lived in the same house, sometimes as frequently as the six times a day that they send letters to each other. particularly communist, I think really Madison her letters are beautifully written a little pompous absolutely rational and she crawls back like my friend it's like someone is flowing through the paper here's one that was written in the afternoon just an outburst really not is for Tahiti but for Honolulu The complaints regarding Prince Alfred refer to what it was about, who knows the story, it doesn't relate, but you see what Mr.

Gladstone was up against Victoria, he whimsically showed his Prime Minister a and again that she was the Queen and he couldn't bully her into doing something she didn't want to do. Victoria maintained that her hostilities had stunned him until the day of her, the great elder's, death. He held on to office long after becoming physically incapable and was prime minister off and on for 26 years. I think the most embarrassing thing about Queen Victoria is the way shebehaved at Lanceton at the time of his resignation. She dedicated her entire life to serving her country and she did not offer him a single word of gratitude;

He trusts that he will be able to enjoy peace and quiet with his excellent and devoted wife, healthy and happy, and that his eyesight will improve. The Queen would have gladly conferred a noble title on Mr. Gladstone, but she knows that he would not accept Gladstone's decline and death had little effect on the queen years ago, she had shamelessly fallen in love with her political opponent benjamin disraeli, who is a nation. Toryism was her kind of politics, plus he knew how to make Israelis laugh in private. home at the heart of her ensured that curator Robert Bandy is the proud guardian of the many gifts Victoria lavished on Disraeli.

This is the diamond. We have a large number of portraits in the house to receive from the Queen. They all have a crown on top. for us exactly this is where they came from, you might have some doubt, okay, in case you might have any doubt, exactly an unconventional visit to hundin in 1877 showed Disraeli as political skill and charm when Disraeli picked up the Queen from the station from Wickham, took two carriages with one of them being fast horses so that he could welcome the Queen for the first time on the platform. Asli, great statesman, showman, many bows and stoops, nor anything really can vary much in Racal.

The people Wickham loved, he took him to the first carriage with the The horses quickly hid again before Queens. He was able to welcome her in exactly the same way, but for the second time, why did she open the front door? The mansion, well, it's delicious and he was my unfortunate lady a little short and she heard the bottom two inches of her dinner. so often that he had his feet on the floor where he said he had sat in a normal chair towards his feet would have been dangling in the air and he didn't think that was becoming a particularly serious offense for me. .

This is another gift of his two selected speeches from Albert. This is very notable. At first we were a little surprised. She didn't like him completely and when he was just a member of the household, but he was useful to her because while she was complaining, Graston referred to it as if it were a public meeting, Disraeli gave her the opposite of the spectrum, he gave her gossip and gossip. and he wrote horrible notes about parliament and at the end of the day she had a very marked sense of humor and she liked him to write about parliament and chemists are so funny that she laughed at their letters.

Who do we have here in the chimney? piece, we have it John Brown given by the Queen to Disraeli - relative outsiders Disraeli is the most unlikely Victorian prime minister and Brown is completely outside the normal social sphere because the Queen got so close to her, so both Brown and Israel give him They gave Victoria the loyalty she always craved and she lapped up the illness endless attention and adulation he is so full of poetry romance and chivalry when he knelt to kiss my hand that he took hers he said with loving loyalty and faith Disraeli not only had fun and He flirted with Victoria, he understood her emotional struggles in life, Professor Jane Ridley has written biographies of both Disraeli and Queen Victoria.

Disraeli did not treat her like a stupid woman. Disraeli treated her as some kind of exotic and wonderful queen. He also treated her as an equal. By writing those wonderful confidential letters to her, he made her feel that she was telling him everything and that he was her minister and that together they ruled the country, so he made her feel good because he wasn't one before he had her. Her horrible generation of those horrible old men, she called them, who talked down to her and didn't flatter her like this, but Disraeli is on her knees flattering her from day one and she loves it.

People smiled at Victoria's infatuation. Disraeli and at her shameless manipulation of his affair, he nicknamed her the fairy or the queen of fairies. He was genuinely fond of her, but he was willing to exploit the friendship for political purposes. Britain was moving towards a position where eventually all adult men would have the vote. and many politicians feared that this would mean an inevitable shift to the left. Disraeli had the finger, he knew that there were thousands and thousands of lower middle class and working class men who are natural conservatives. Victoria became the perfect figure from which the Israelis won nature and conservatism.

The plans involve Victoria as a symbol of British power not only at home but extending around the world to the Empire, displaying political astuteness and glorious creativity. Disraeli announced that Victoria was Empress of India on January 1, 1877 and she was delighted with her new title. Thoughts very busy with the big event in Delhi today and in India in general, where I am being proclaimed Empress of India. Today for the first time I have signed myself as our V and I as Empress of India. It's a title you might consider more appropriate for a railway engine or possibly even a page, but it made Britain an imperial power.

India with all the exotic expense of it, now tame under the Royal Dominion of the fairy, of course, the sophisticated people shuddered at the title, but Victoria and Israel knew that the great proportion of the British people. He thought that the Empire enriched Britain and for the next 80 years the Empire was the pride of British conservatives and the envy of many beyond its borders, as he had instinctively used his diplomatic skills in Germany in the years after the death of Albert Victoria took advantage of the opportunity. being in charge of Disraeli -zz political ideals to galvanize the classes of Britain under a powerful monitor there is a glorious romance about being Victoria RI rather than just Victoria Regina was a real publicity coup in India Victoria is extraordinarily popular, they see her as almost a goddess figure even though she never went there in her life, you know, she has this extraordinary common sense to predict what will happen and about politics and about the Empress of India.

She was absolutely right, she was a really astute politician. Not so, but the couple's political romance couldn't last forever. Disraeli continued to fight in politics until the day of his death. Victoria paid attention to him until the end and gave him a noble title as Lord Beaconsfield. When she died, she was distraught. I can not write. In third person in this terrible moment when I can barely see because of the rapid tears falling, Victoria made the most extraordinary confession to her friend Lady Water Park. I know you will feel my great and irreplaceable loss for me.

I have lost so many, but none whose loss will be felt more than that of dear Lord Beaconsfield. They are remarkable words considering how recently she had lost her beloved daughter Alice and how intensely she had mourned the Prince Consort. They show how united Victoria had become in both politics and in her too dizzy heart Gladstone was the dictatorial prime minister Disraeli was the true and trusted friend as if Disraeli's death was not enough for Victoria to stumble just two years later came the death of the man who could have been the love of her life John Brown, the Queen was devastated.

The orphaned widow was alone again. The extent of Victoria's report on paper is only partly known. These words escaped the merciless winds. Our censorship. I am terribly upset by this loss that eliminated someone who was so distracted. and attached to my service that did so much my personal comfort is the loss not only before the servant of a railway friend through love and loss again and again Victoria had the remarkable fortitude to move forward in the midst of pain away from her widowhood By limiting it, she had the strength to reinvent herself and was visibly a new 68-year-old woman celebrating her golden wedding anniversary.

The crowd from the doors of the palace to the Abbey was enormous. This unforgettable day will always leave the most gratifying and emotional memories. The moving memories behind the celebrations. They did not end in London, they extended to the ends of the Empire in India. Am I in India? No, I'm on the Isle of Wight. I'm in the Durbar room. Victoria added this fantastic fashion to Prince Albert's. she Italian in the villa and was a symbol of her liberation from Albertine beyond her dominion. Her imaginative understanding of her Empire and her world itself had expanded so much in her life that it's absolutely fantastic.

Victoria had never been to India, but she always had a great affection for it. For her people, she would rather hear exotic stories of India and then talk to her boring Oxford-educated politicians, so it was decided in her Jubilee year that a taste of India would be sent to her in England in the form of two servants. Indians. According to a chart, one of those servants would turn out to be her last great bond. The man in question was Abdul Karim, 24, hired as little more than a lackey. He would become the new subject of Victoria's male affection.

Abdul Karim, much lighter and taller. and with a fine and serious countenance, Victoria loved the company of Abdul Karim and now, through the corridors of Osman's house, floated the delicious aromas of the spices that she had brought with her from Agra, cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, cumin, walnut butternut, browning the overboiled cabbage pong. and lamb and there he is Abdul Kareem brought with him India in all its color and splendor that Victoria wholeheartedly welcomed him to her court shravani Basu is the author of the best-selling book on abdul karim and queen

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young light brown who was a married man as a married man and his wife also came to court the lady.

Karim, as they called her, wore a veil and was from a good Indian family. Not only did he have his mother, but also his mother-in-law, so there were several of his Muslim ladies without burqas around the throne, as if she were the Queen. She was very excited because she said that she was the first part of the ladies at court if Victoria liked a servant, she did not hold back. Abdul was soon promoted to the position of Munchie, the queen's Indian teacher, she wanted to learn about the common people of India and this was very important to her she wants to learn the language and he gives her the everyday phrases and she shows off she loves to show off he has these Indian princesses coming what better than to casually use a Hindustani phrase what were the useful everyday phrases he taught her, well they were the standard stuff like oh you know, the tea is too hot or the egg isn't boiled enough , but they were also intriguing phrases like I will miss them so much when she and hold me tight.

Where does it come from? Do you think she? She hugged him tight, it was a relationship and on many levels you know he was mother's son, grandmother's son, he was the closest friend and at the same time Queen Victoria liked a strong man in her side. If you look at John Brown's pattern, he was six feet tall. tall about her, a strong man, someone who cared about her and Abdul Karim himself, six feet tall, standing next to her, taking care of her, definitely, the physical element, the sensual one, was a big part of it. . I think that's very revealing.

None of Victoria's English courtiers like the moon. They thought it was John Brown in a turban, but Victoria seemed not to notice her or perhaps she decided to ignore her snobbish and racist feelings towards him. Writing to Vickie, Victoria's words were all praise. He is so good, gentle and understanding with everything I want and he is a true. consolation for me she is a very good influence on others, anything Abdul Karim wanted, she would get it if she wants a nice room, they give her the room she gave John Brown's old room and it shows, she gives him her own carriage, he's still around, he goes around.

Balmoral, you are going on vacation to India, can you tell us what was the attitude of the courtiers towards Abdul as soon as he started receiving all the favors, the resentment also started and the Queen accuses them all the time of racism and insists that They behave politely towards him, which they don't do and she invites him because he is a bit arrogant and a bit proud of himself, he struts around, he rules Lord over the other Indian servants, but that is the position they have given to him. despite the riots. In court he was rising.

Victoria didn't seem to care, she just wasn't going to give up her affection for her new best friend and a blatant show of favoritism on June 18, 19 angered her family even more; The Queen lost contact as she climbed into hers. In the carriage, one of the footmen said that she had seen Abdul Korean's brother-in-law, Allow Ali, hanging around at the time someone told the lady. he touches the Queen's dressing table and says that Ali had pinched the brooch and sold it to the jeweler in Windsor, then they received a note from the jeweler to show that the Queen was furious not with the thief but with the lady. touch, he stated that in India it was perfectly normal to pick things that didn't belong and that it was not considered dishonesty at all and then turned to the lady.

Touch this is what the English call her justice, you English, coming from the Queen who escaped to Germany when times got tough and, although she had spent the previous 50 years on the throne, she evidently never feltreally as at home in Britain as in other countries. members of the court dr. Reid didn't care how much time the Queen spent on Munchie, especially since he was so often sick that he had to take care of the moon. several times I saw him in his room and I stroked his hand taking Hindustani lessons I stroked his neck and smoothed his pillows one doesn't want to be too clever but what was wrong with poor lungi ooh well first of all he had had scabies but that was a little better, but this was a big boy on his neck, how did the mother he goes with reason?

Oh, she doesn't like the moon, she greatly thought he was a bad egg, he was horrible to his fellow Indians and she felt his sense of superiority over everyone. Can the others see what she saw on the moon? It reads clearly, doesn't it? No, I think she was exotic and he was a symbol of India. Victoria, oblivious to prevention, turned a blind eye to the unhappy members of her court, but things. She reached a breaking point when she insisted that Munchie accompany her on her annual trip to the sunny Riviera. Victoria had always loved coming to France as a place to escape.

She traveled in the years after Albert's death under the name of the Countess of Balmoral. France represented freedom. for Victoria and in 1897 a royal trip was planned to see me and I stayed at the elegant new Excelsior Hotel with magnificent views of the Mediterranean. I drove through the city along the beautiful boardwalk near the sea, which looked so beautiful in a wonderful deep blue. Color vacation plans to go wrong and the Almighty Rau is about to burst into the house precipitated by Dr. Reid, who most inappropriately told the others, but the poor money he had lost once again with the dose of gonorrhea that took over this, is the perfect excuse to say that if the Munchie was too nice, they wouldn't come , they would be.

On strike, this precipitated the mother of all tensions, Mrs. Phipps is chosen to go tell the Queen that if the moon goes away, we are not going to go, we are going to resign collectively, these are riots and the Queen listens This and he gets inside her with a scream of rage, gets up, throws everything to the ground. On the tables there are all those letters, ports, ink pens that crash against the lady. Phipps leaves the room crying and she comes back and tells them what happened so that at the end of the day they don't quit and then when she traveled like she always does with the Queen, then they know it's a victory for the shape of the moon and Also It was a victory for the Queen, but when Victoria paraded the Munchie in Nice, his famous ride is just one of the local newspapers that described the monkey as a mere servant, the Queen was furious and insisted that the newspaper publish a retraction stating that the moon was a scholar far from being her servant, he was her Indian secretary, a preceptor in the Hindu city and, in addition, one of the most important characters or birth, ahem, the Queen always insisted that she be respected, remember that He is my Indian secretary and is considered a gentleman in my suite in Victoria's eyes a gentleman was not a rich landowner he was someone who had AB Miraval qualities regardless of his class or race.

I consider him to be one of Victoria's most endearing qualities, he completely lacked snobbery and despised social restrictions. This was the woman who had supposedly been crippled by the death of her husband at the age of 42, but she becomes so much more than the black widow that Victoria spent the last 40 years of her life after Albert found freedom. In the most unlikely of relationships and despite living a life away from the public, she emerged as an icon of the time, an image of British power just four years before her death, the streets of London were filled with the public celebrating her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and I don't think anyone has met her.

With the ovation I received as I passed through those six miles of streets, the cheers were deafening and every face seemed to be filled with joy. Victoria died in January 1901 after a remarkable 63 years on the throne and more than a century later. death, her words still draw our attention. Victoria had written instructions that she gave to her dresser, the lady. touch and doctor dr. Reid and told him that he wanted it to be placed in her coffin with her when she died, that the Prince Consort dress her, that he had several photographs of her grandchildren or favorite servants and that he had locks of her hair, perhaps he more significant.

She was holding a framed photograph of John Brown and on her finger was the ring he had given her at her mother's wedding. When you pass the Frogmore Mausoleum, which is almost always closed, it is strange to think of her lying there. Surrounded by all her memories, the image is emblematic of a queen who likes drama in life and now in death, but unfortunately the image is not one that her children could tolerate. All traces of the Queen's unconventional attachments emerged the month she was deported, her children tried. editing her mother's life destroying statues of John Brown censoring her diaries burning her letters but many of her words survived and provide a fascinating insight into this extraordinary human being Victoria had overcome her pressurized childhood in a controlling political system and fought against the power In the struggles of her marriage to a man who had held back in the midst of pain, she emerged as a woman free to move in the world of politics and make deep friendships without restrictions and in all of this she revealed herself to be a woman who was anything. less Victorian, far from being prim and proper, she loved life in all its richness, she was blind to class, color and country which we believe she had a great sense of humor when you look at this statue, it looks so stiff, so formal, that the Queen Empress, but listen to her words and Victoria lives you