Who Was The Real Queen Victoria? | A Monarch Unveiled | Timeline

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

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of Great Britain. She was empress of India. In fact, her empire extended throughout the world. packed with thousands of people singing "God save the

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", as the 78-year-old

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was prepared 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 daughter. 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 life under the shadow of dominant men in whom Victoria had been a pawn. a political game as a child and young queen 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 life and in loves that would make her last for decades, her most productive and exciting moment and, fortunately for us, she put all her feelings on paper, writing more than 50 million words, some were considered so impactful by her children that when she died they were destroyed.

Over the last five years reading Queen Victoria's diaries and unpublished letters, I have come to feel that something is almost coming or because behind that sturdy old woman dressed in black sitting at her desk was a passionate human being and, contrary to what As is so often said, she was amused frequently and easily 1861 was Queen Victoria's annus horribilis the death of her mother and her husband left her distraught she fled London it was assumed that her absence from the capital meant that she was not doing nothing left her inept due to pain in her diary Sheba Wales the loss of her lover her friend her crutch he did everything everywhere I did nothing without him from the greatest of the smallest my first word was I must ask Albert in her delusion turned the man she had often resented and fought with into a demigod which Victoria What I didn't

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ize at age 42 was that the marriage had infantilized her 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 modernity. 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 Everything the air smelled of Albert and she breathed it in as she began to return to Cobourg.

Her brother Anor. Ernst Albert's brother expected her to stay with him in her grandfather's rock palace in the center of the city that lost Arenberg, but she preferred to be here dressed in dental floss. rosin our 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 honest are the hills and forests, she certainly was inconsolably heartbroken and you can see here a page from the book of visitors. wrote in 1862 Victoria Regina how desolate we make my beloved Albert a direct descendant of Prince Albert keeps the line alive today in nearby Josh kallenberg pubertus is the hereditary prince of saxony-coburg and gotha ​​so let's enter a treasure house in a of the rooms here, please, you are wonderful, thank you very much, use the great-great-grandson, yes sir, that is correct, this is where we show the family relations between the sexes of the kava-kava family and the British.

Oh, look, there's a wonderful winter house, Prince. Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, that was after she came to Britain, yes, yes, it wasn't literally, he says it's important, yes, look at this beautiful painting, she wasn't dressed very well but she had great jewelry, that's what the French did not notice. I know that when she went to Paris, yes, after she withered, she became even more attached to Germany, even more aware of her German roots. After the too early death of Prince Albert, she was still very much in love with Germany and especially the shared work and she returned to the oak monument for Albert here in 1865 in the market.

There was also one of the few public appearances where she apparently did so after her death, oh yes, Victoria had always loved melodrama since her days as a young queen and now, in her morning, she made her loss clear by Seeing her dressed in black, she wanted everyone to enter into her pain, Dr. Kareena or Buck, an expert on Anglo-German relations, 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 Otherwise, it puts it on its pedestal. she drags her kids into the room once a year, the room he died in and keeps preaching to him all the time how wonderful he was and it's absolutely ridiculous because the kids of course hate him after a while and resent everything about of this idealized father, so he achieves the complete opposite she returned again and again to turbo yes I think he would have gone to live alone in the small cabin in Germany it was Albert that was his idea and it was his home it was home it was not she does feel relaxed because when she speaks German she can be a different person in her English identity, she has to be the cream of the crop in Germany, she is simply denying how Victoria, afflicted by the pain of Albert's neighborhood, could have been, but inept, It certainly wasn't. she was about to demonstrate her political astuteness in Germany, then it was not a unified country as we know it today.

Germany was simply a problem, the question was whether the little German duchesses and 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 Victoria's time and in that drama the trees took center stage in the summer of 1863 the Queen came here to Edinburgh Castle while was here stood between The twin camps with Prussia and Austria before any of his diplomats were his first important activities since he became a widow. She felt very nervous about 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's interesting at this point that we see the British Queen become a party through her own marriage and the marriages of her children, so intimately involved in European politics at the time, British politicians complained that their

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was too Teary for a loner, 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 his cabinet, and his role in all of 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 see the poor child in the wrong side. The personal was the political. For Victoria, intensely German, she nevertheless felt, as all mothers would lament, that her family was on opposite sides of the political divide while Victoria showed her strength on the world stage by getting involved in major European wars. global.

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 assist Victoria in Osman 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 age 7 her youngest became Victoria's next male dependency as closest companion and best friend Raymond lament Brown is the official biographer of the Highland servants she spent much more time with Jean Brown than with anyone else yes he He was sure he was born like any member of his family.

Yes, that's true. He took care of her every time she needed him. He understood her very well. I think there was something that her family and her ministers did not understand. Although she was surrounded by people all the time, she She felt very alone and John Brown told her quite openly, I think you're just a little loner who needs to be taken out of herself and that's exactly what he did, in a way he brought her out of her depression, she became a walking encyclopedia of things. What Queen Victoria liked and 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 were absolute service yes yes Albert, of course, had had his own agenda or were things he did, but for John Brown from dawn to dusk, his agenda was Queen Victoria, along with Brown's devotion by the Queen, came a brusqueness and complete disregard for taught etiquette, something Brown could see Victoria enjoying her 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 of pushing and shoving. drink, while Browned loved whiskey. he was often drunk he liked to pour whiskey into the twins' milk can he sings don't stay thirsty Victoria wouldn't believe what I'm about to say but Brown freed her from Albert he freed her inner capacity for hedonism and fun and she reveled 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 an authoritarian and scheming husband who loved. marks openness and dedication to her and only her is a true 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 he kept her under control once upon a time there was a occasion when a footman came into the room with a tray and the poor boy dropped, the Queen burst into anger, said he should be sent away to the kitchen, but John Brownwoman intervened immediately, what are you doing?

Do that, dad, oh, you needed something for yourself, the lackey was. reinstated, the outspoken Scot had bought the Queen of England in his place and she enjoyed it, but it wasn't just the directness of the mark that she enjoyed, he also filled a deep emotional need in Victoria on the fourth anniversary of the death of Alberto, she completely defied convention by taking Braun to pay his respects at Albert's mausoleum, her writings that day showed how significant the brand's response was to Victoria when she came to my room later, he was so affected that he said in his simple and expressive way with such a tender look of pity as the tears rolled down his cheeks.

I didn't like seeing you at Frogmore this morning. I felt sorry for you, but what could I do for you? I could die for you. I don't think so. Anyone could have replaced Prince Albert, but she needs some kind of male crutch and John Braun 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 one, 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 quite a wild sight but the men seemed very cold there was nothing but their shirts and kilts they flowed wonderfully the newspapers are quite soft things the remarkable thing about them is that They were published, they are beautiful books, they are bound in green with gold embossing 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 hardly noticed and were not very happy, but it seemed that Victoria didn't 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 Highland burg, my only one. book I was hoping you and Fritz would have liked it. The reason Vicky might have been avoiding the topic was that her mother's shameless adoration of Brown was causing a scandal. A defamatory pamphlet entitled The Legs of John Brown appeared in New York.

It is dedicated to those extraordinary legs. bruised and scratched pig, darlings, here's the Queen looking at a damaged knee, jeez, what a knee sticking out of John Brown's kilt, the funny thing about this is that while the American was writing this pamphlet, the Queen herself was writing a third volume of leaves. of our life in the highlands an effective 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 went in and told the Queen that it

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ly wasn't a very good idea to write these memoirs of her life was brown, it would be misunderstood, she burst into anger, however, she 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 is no trace of the queen's life with John Brown in her voluminous diaries , we remained silent as his children intended to erase Brown and anything else that was considered. inadequate of history, it is poignant and it 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.

John Brown and Victoria obsesses us over the topic. What we do know is that by favoring Brown Victoria she showed herself to be a woman desperate for company regardless of the social cost that comes a far cry from her days as Albert's submissive wife. If it were Brown, she was free to do whatever he wanted, of course people suspected him of sleeping with Victoria. There's a bit of a feminist issue here. If she had been a man at the time of sleeping with a 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 of a secret marriage, even a love child between the Queen and her Highland servant, a man who was probably one of them.

The few people in the world who ever knew the whole truth about her relationship with Brown was her last doctor, Sir James Reid, my goodness, Makela, Mrs. Reid is married to her grandson, he kept a diary, well, he has 40 little diaries here, look, her writing was tiny, she read a lot, you really need a magnifying glass. glass yes, this is one of March, this is the Queen and Branagh, actually, yes, she is a fool, they were going up and down stairs. Brown and the Queen was brown, of course, she wore it, the reading of it was not blood, so she was allowed to touch it well. to offer his arm, I mean, he wasn't allowed to examine me and second of all, he wouldn't be allowed to care, yeah, yeah, and they were laughing about it all and thinking it was so funny and then the next day he says that The Queen walked a little. in the room Brown lifts his kilt and says it's there and lifts his skirt laughing and says no, it's here she was moving her big self yes yes yes I think she's pointing yes yes obviously they were very intimate is there any feeling in the Reed ? family that dr.

Reed knew the lilyc nature of the relationship, there is a feeling and we used to make fun of Grandma when we called her her widow about John Brown and the relationship and she always failed 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 so much in public. If they had had an affair, they would have been more circumspect. There is also the trend of physical details that we sailors now have. has 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 and 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 who was oh no, that's it. absurd, absurd desire, it has been said how it happens when someone knows that I am writing about Queen Victoria, I have always been asked the same question, what was the relationship between John Brown? and the Queen were lovers 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 and wanting to hold her and take her with her. in public and laugh with her, but I'm sure there wasn't some kind of covert secret relationship.

I think the most likely thing if you really wanted to force me to make a decision is that they had a tactile love relationship that involved a lot of hugging, but that they weren't lovers in the true sense of the word. Victoria was never a conventional person despite giving her name. to an era of decorum 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 it came to her Liberal Prime Minister, W Johnston, she had no tolerance, sir. Gladstone 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 all the weapons in her arsenal, her psychological illnesses, physical illnesses, to combat what she believed were attacks by the liberals on the monarchy itself, her undisguised loss of this state. humorless intellectual showed how self-assertive 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 30 years later. Her clash with Peel Victoria proved to be as belligerent towards Gladstone as she had been in her youth, it occurred in the summer of 1869 and Gladstone asked her to open the new Blackfriars Bridge, from which the Queen is determined to get ahead and the drama It continued through the summer and fall.

Gladstone was the brunt of most of the Queen's emotional outbursts. She thought she had made it clear that it was impossible for her to open Blackfriars Bridge, but as Mr. Gladstone still seemed to doubt that he would repeat his sincere regret that it would not occur to him to do such a thing in the middle of summer. ; The republicans, the press, but also the enthusiastic monarchies, asked themselves the same question: the country worked perfectly well and the head of state spent most of her year in Balmoral or the Isle of Wight, why did we need a monitor? ?

And it was to silence her 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 pressured as to wage war between her nailed heels. . The queen is very surprised that they are once again mocking and tormenting over this bridge. Having been close for three weeks, Mr. danced and she refused to open it saying that the exhaustion from the whole masturbating thing was a day to bite everyone in the heat because of the mood swings when the event came Victoria decided she could open the bridge but what pallava had she caused by doing so . so frequently caught in the crossfire between Gladstone and his queen were his private secretary Colonel Henry Punts and myself 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 understanding myself worse, the Queen's desk every 10 minutes.

My feeling is that he found Queen Victoria almost impossible to deal with, while Henry Ponsonby was much better at dealing with any thoughts about me. He knew what he was doing. I think in some ways he did everything he could to try to make the Queen more reasonable it was about some, but she was very, very critical of him. Henry Paulson maybe knew better than to contradict her, there was a famous story about him, but he says that when I say two and two make four, he says Queen Victoria. no they make five and then he said the game no I think they're fooling around and she says no you're wrong then he said I drop it I drop it and then we go back to it and then it's okay she knew yes he said no, Queen Victoria would immediately dig her hills in New Henry, answer me with Martha, she could be absolutely impossible of course, but he managed to cope and of course he had a great sense of humour.

I think that was the saving grace. Which wasn't hate, look how funny she was, that's true, and she made everyone at the table laugh, she said she looks around to see Victoria and she's absolutely, you know, deeply removed, she's known as Real crazy laughs and that's it. You start laughing and then your eyes fill with tears and you shake and all this kind of laughter comes out. He had a lot of food, didn't he? Yes, she had a lot of Korea. She always had the rules of the fight. Yes Dad. Not Sam. particularly humorous, yes, I think it was Victoria's strange mix of humor and hysteria that the politicians couldn't come to terms with so much that they feared for her sanity and we couldn't see why the establishment was concerned when you look at the tourist. packages between the Queen and mr.

Blanton, when Gladys went to live at Balmoral, he felt uncomfortable and did not speak to the Queen. She often refused to talk to him so that they would reciprocate well. They both lived in the same house, sometimes as frequently as the six times a day they sent letters to each other. particularly communist, I think she really loves them, her letters beautifully written, a little pompous, absolutely rational and she scrolls back to my friends, it's like someone is flowing through the paper. Here's one that was written in the afternoon, just a spurt. In reality, it is not for Tahiti but for Honolulu with the complaints regarding Prince Alfred he refers to what it was about, who knows the story, he does not tell it, but you see what mr.

Gladstone stood up to Victoria, capriciously showing her Prime Minister over and over again that she was her queen and that he didn't bully her into doing something she didn't want to do. Victoria maintained her hostility if Lance had turned to the great elder until the day he died. He held on to office long after becoming physically incapacitated and was Prime Minister from time to time for 26 years. I think the most embarrassing thing about Queen Victoria is the way she behaved at Lanceton at the time of his resignation. She dedicated her entire life to the service of her country and she did not offer him a single word of gratitude; she trusts that he will be able to enjoy peace and tranquility with his excellent and devoted wife in her health andhappiness and that your 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 her 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 haven't thought about portraits in the house to guess of the Queen.

They all have a crown on top. We exactly came from here In any case, in case you might have had any doubts, it was an unconventional visit: Hundun in 1877 showed Disraeli how political skill and charm when Disraeli picked up the Queen at Wickham station, he took two wagons with him, one was that fast. horses so you could welcome the Queen for the first time on the platform he was a great statesman showman lots of bows and bows there, anything really from very, very theatrical people and Wickham loved it, he chose him for the first carriage with the fast horses hid again before Queens, he could welcome him in exactly the same way, but for the second time, in fact, I got the front door of the mansion, well, it's delicious and he was my unfortunate lady a little short and He heard the bottom two inches of his dinner so often that there his feet. plane on the floor where she said she had sat in a normal chair until her feet would have been hanging in the air and he didn't think that was particularly appropriate.

Oh, this is another gift from his two selected speeches from Albert. This is very notable. At first we found it a bit unpleasant. while she complained, the grastons referred to her as if she were at a public meeting, Disraeli gave her the opposite spectrum, gave her gossip and gossip and wrote terrifying notes, facts from Parliament, and after all she had a sense of very marked humor and that he liked the fact that he did the recounts of the parliament and the cabinets, that is so funny that he laughed at his letters. Who do we have here in the fireplace? we have em John Brown given by the Queen to Disraeli - relative strangers Disraeli very unlikely The Victorian Prime Minister and Brown are completely outside the normal social sphere for the Queen, which has brought him very close to her, sir.

Both Brown and Disraeli gave Victoria the loyalty she always craved, and she enjoyed the endless attention and praise. He is so full of poetry. romance and chivalry as he knelt to kiss my hand, which he took in his, she said with loving loyalty and faith. Not only did Disraeli have fun and flirt with Victoria, but he understood her emotional struggles in her life. Professor Jane Ridley has written biographies of 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.

He made her feel by writing those wonderful confidential letters that she was telling him everything. that he was her minister and together they ruled the country, so he made her feel good, she wasn't, you know, before she had her horrible generation of those horrible old men she called them, who talked to her and didn't. they did it. I don't flatter her this way Disraeli has been on her knees complimenting her from day one and she loves it. People smiled at Victoria's infatuation with Disraeli and at her shameless manipulation of him, he dubbed her the fairy or fairy queen that he genuinely was.

He was fond of her, but he was willing to exploit that friendship for political purposes. Britain was moving towards a position where eventually all adult men would have the vote and many politicians feared this would mean an inevitable lurch to the left. Disraeli had his finger on the pulse. He knew that there were thousands and thousands of lower middle class and working class men who are conservative by nature. Victoria became the perfect figurehead of Israel as a nation. Conservatism. Her plans involve Victoria as a symbol of British power not only at home but extending throughout the world. world to the Empire showing political astuteness and glorious creativity Disraeli announced that Victoria was Empress of India on January 1, 1877 I was delighted with the new title my thoughts were very occupied with the great event in Delhi today and in India in general, where I am Being proclaimed Empress of India, today for the first time I sign myself as V R and I am 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 in all its exoticism. expenses are now moderate under the Royal Dominion of the fairy, of course, sophisticated people shuddered at the title, but Victoria and Israel knew that the large proportion of the British people thought that the Empire enriched Britain and for the next 80 years The Empire was the pride of the British. Conservatives and the envy of many beyond her borders, as she had instinctively used her diplomatic skills in Germany in the years after Albert's death, Victoria seized the opportunity to put herself at the forefront of Disraeli's political ideals to galvanize the British classes under a powerful monarch. glorious romance about being Victoria, is it me instead of just Victoria Regina?

It was a real publicity coup in India. Victoria is extraordinarily popular, she is seen almost as a goddess figure even though she never went there in her life. You know she has extraordinary common sense. something like predicting what is going to happen with politics and with the empress of India. She was absolutely right. He was very astute from a political point of view. No? Yes, but the couple's political romance couldn't last forever. Disraeli continued to fight in politics until his death. The day Victoria paid attention to him until the end, she was moved by a peerage as Lord Beaconsfield, when she died, she was distraught.

I can't write in the third person at this terrible moment when I can barely see because of the rapid tears that fall. Victoria made the most of her extraordinary confession to her friend Lady Water Park. I know she will feel my great and irreplaceable loss for me. I have lost many, but none whose loss will be felt more than that of dear Lord Beaconsfield. These are remarkable words considering how recently they are. She had lost her beloved daughter Alice and the intensity with which she had mourned the Prince Consort, show how close Victoria had become both in politics and in her too dizzy heart.

Gladstone was the dictatorial prime minister. Disraeli was her true and trusted friend, as if Disraeli's death was not enough for Victoria to cope with, 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 fatherless widow was alone again. The scope of Victoria's report on paper. It is only partly known that these words escaped the merciless winds of our censorship. I am terribly upset by this loss that eliminated someone who was so devoted and attached to my service who did so much for my personal comfort.

It is the loss not only of a servant of a true friend through love and loss again and again Victoria had the extraordinary strength to move forward in the midst of pain, far from being limited by her widowhood, she had the strength to reinvent herself and She was visibly a new 68-year-old woman celebrating her Golden Jubilee among the crowds. from the gates of the palace to the Abbey were enormous, this unforgettable day will always leave the most gratifying and moving memories behind the celebrations 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 fantastical form to Prince Albert's Italian in the villa and was a symbol of Albertine's liberation beyond her dominion, her imaginative understanding of her empire. and the world itself had expanded so much in her life that it is completely fantastic. Victoria had never been to India, but she always had a great affection for the people there. She would rather here exotic stories from India than talk to her boring Oxford-educated politicians. and so it was decided in her Jubilee year that the taste of India would be sent to England in the form of two Indian servants of a chart.

One of those servants would turn out to be her last great love. The man in question was 24. One-year-old Abdul Karim, hired as little more than a lackey, would become the new subject of Victoria's male affections. Abdul Karim, much lighter, taller and with a fine and serious countenance, Victoria loved the company of Abdul Karim and now, through the corridors of Osman's house, the delicious aromas of the spices that he had brought with him from Agra floated, cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, cumin, nutmeg, browning the pong of overboiled cabbage and lamb, and there was Abdul Kareem, bringing with him India in all its color and splendor, to which Victoria welcomed Pell. wholeheartedly in the court of him shravani Basu is the author of the best selling book on abdul kareem and queen

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

Kareem, as they called her, wore a veil and was from a good Indian family. She not only had her mother, but also her mother-in-law, so there were several of her Muslim ladies without her burqa 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 a lot when she hugs 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, 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 oblivious to her or perhaps chose to ignore her snobbish and racist feelings towards him. Writing to Vickie, Victoria's words were all praise. He is so good, gentle and understands everything I want and he is a real. 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 they 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 and then once she invites him because he's a bit arrogant and a bit proud of himself, he struts around, ruling Lord over the other Indian servants, but that's the position that they have given him despite the riots. In court it was increasing. 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 further angered her family. The Queen lost her brooch while she was climbing. In her carriage, one of the footmen said that she had seen Abdul Karim's brother-in-law allowing Ali to loiter around the moment someone told the lady. Touching the Queen's dress, Ali had pinched the brooch and sold it to the jewelers in Windsor, they then received a note from the jeweler to prove it, but the Queen was furious not with the thief but with the lady. touch she claimed that in India it was perfectly normal because things didn't belong and it wasn't considered dishonesty at all and then she turned to the lady. touch this is what your English people call justice, you English people, coming from the Queen who escaped to Germany when times got tough and, although she had spent the previous 50 years on the throne, evidently never really felt at home in Great Britain.

Britain as in other countries. members of the court dr. Reid didn't care how much time the Queen spent at the Munchie, especially since he was so often sick that he had totake 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 well nothing to be too clever but what was wrong with the poor monkey ooh well first of all he had had scabies but that was a little better, but this was a big boil on her neck, how did the one she knows alone reason?

Oh, feet like the moon, she thought greatly that she was a rotten egg, she was horrible to her fellow Indians and she felt the sense of superiority of her over all others, can you see what she saw in the moon ? She read it clearly, she really couldn't tell. I think she was exotic and was a symbol of India. Victoria, oblivious to convention, 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 English Promenade, 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 very inappropriately said to the others, but poor Munchie had come down again with the dose of gonorrhea that took over this is the perfect excuse to say that if Munchie behaved too well, they wouldn't come, they were going to being on strike this precipitated the mother of all tensions madam.

Phipps is chosen to go and 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 hears this and gets inside her with a scream of rage, she gets up, throw everything to the ground. On the tables there are all those jars of letters, 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 travels like she always does with the Queen, then they know it's a victory for the shape of the moon and Too It was a victory for the Queen, but when Victoria paraded the monkey in Nice, her famous ride being just one of the local newspapers describing the monkey as a mere servant, the Queen was furious and insisted that the newspaper publish a retraction stating than the Moon she.

He was a cultured man, far from being his servant, he was his Indian secretary, a preceptor in the Hindu city and, in addition, one of the most important characters or birth, ahem, he always insisted that the Queen be respected, remember that he is my Indian secretary and I considered him a gentleman in my suite, in Victoria's eyes a gentleman was not a rich landowner. He was someone who had the qualities of AB Miraval regardless of his class or race. I find him to be one of Victoria's most endearing qualities: her complete lack of snobbery and disregard for social restrictions.

This was the woman who had supposedly been crippled by the death of her husband at her age. 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 era. image of British power just four years before his death, the streets of London were full of his audience celebrating his Diamond Jubilee in 1897, I believe that no one has ever received such an ovation as the one they gave me, when walking through those six miles of streets, the cheers. he was quite deafening and all her faces seemed to be filled with joy.

Victoria died in January 1901 after 63 remarkable years on the throne and more than a century after her death, her words still command our attention. Victoria had written instructions that she gave to her dresser, the lady. tuck and doctor dr. Reid and told her that she wanted to be put in her coffin with her when she died, for the Prince Consort to dress her, to have several photographs of her favorite grandchildren, old servants, and to have locks of her hair, maybe what the meaning is. 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 was 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 conventional attachments were erased the month she was deported. She attempted to edit her mother's life by destroying statues of John Brown, censoring her diaries, and 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 had fought back. power 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 as a woman who was anything but Victorian. Far from being prim and proper, she loved life in all the richness of it, she was blind to class, color and country, to which we believe she had a great sense of humour.

A new look at this statue, it seems as rigid, as formal, as the Queen Empress, but here it is. words and victory lives