One day in May 1819, at Kensing Palace in London, England, a baby girl was born.
This baby girl is the future Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also the first British king to concurrently serve as Emperor of India, Queen Victoria.
When Queen Victoria was born, her mother, Princess Victoria, and her father, Prince Edward, had traveled long distances and drove back to London, placing high hopes on her birth. From the time she was born, she was the heir to the throne as recognized by her parents.
However, this imperial road was unexpected: when Victoria was 8 months old, her father Edward died early due to a wind chill.
The education to make Victoria queen was therefore undertaken by her mother.
When she was very young, her mother arranged for court teachers to teach her court etiquette and governing the country.
The mother's requirements were strict, coupled with Victoria's own hard work. When she was a teenager, she was already familiar with the laws of England and other countries. Even she had her own deep understanding of the queen's duties and obligations. These laid a solid foundation for her to become queen in the future.
William IV died in 1837, having no children of his own, and would be succeeded by his only 18-year-old niece, Victoria, according to the rules of succession to the Throne of the British Royal Family.
At the age of 18, she was still an ignorant girl, and it was inevitable that she would be a little nervous and overwhelmed to shoulder the development of Britain in the future, so on the day of her accession to the throne, Victoria nervously asked her attendant what she should do after becoming queen.
A newly adult royal eldest daughter has too much ignorance and wandering in the face of becoming the king of a country. As a girl who controls the lifeblood of the country, no matter how much knowledge she has learned before, once she wants to manage a country, she has many unknowns in her heart. But even one of the attendant maids understood: just do everything you should do. Maybe it was the authorities who were obsessed, or maybe she cared too much about her throne. Fortunately, such nervousness and trepidation was the only time in her 64 years on the throne.
Because since she ascended the throne, all her performances have shown the world the results of her mother's strict training of her from childhood, as well as her innate leadership talent. And the most obvious of these talents is that she began to actively expand leadership and establish colonies in power.
China's first Opium War was launched by Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria's life's political tactics can be described as "iron fist", such as when Britain and France competed for dominance of the Suez Canal, she would set up a conspiracy to make France voluntarily withdraw from the war. And she ruled Ireland by force. As a result, he was later assassinated by the Irish 6 times. She was even revered as the "Empress of India" for occupying India as a colony at the time.
Who says women are weak? In fact, women do not have to be "mothers and just". These four words make people inevitably feel a little helpless, but people are used to strong men and weak women.
Queen Victoria can both rule by force and have the family happiness of an ordinary woman.
On Victoria's 20th birthday, at a banquet, she met Alexander II, the future monarch of Russia at the time.
But as the king of England, in addition to love, it is more about the state, politics and subjects.
At that time, Russia's development rate was again more rapid than that of Britain. The British ministers were strongly opposed to the two men's dealings. Love without a future is not supposed to continue.
Victoria is a person who knows exactly what she wants to do and what she was born with. She never drags mud with water. For the sake of the national interest, she resolutely gave up this budding relationship.
In fact, at the age of 16, under the arrangement of her mother and uncle, Queen Victoria met her cousin Prince Albert, who was three months younger. At that time, it was only because of his youth and ignorance of love, that he only knew that he had a good feeling for each other, and the two people still saw each other as before.
After several years of baptism, both people have grown up.
Prince Albert liked Victoria, but at the thought that if he wanted to become the Queen's husband, he would lose his freedom and become a vassal of the Queen.
The feelings between men and women, sometimes with the intervention of a third party, can make the parties understand that the other party is their true love.
Prince Albert saw Alexander II and was inexplicably worried about losing Queen Victoria.
He decided to trade his freedom for queen Victoria's company.
In Queen Victoria's later memoirs, it was said that the two weeks spent with Prince Albert in Windsor Castle, during which no one and no one disturbed, were the happiest times of my life.
After the marriage, the life of the two was plain but beautiful, especially after giving birth to 9 children (5 daughters and 4 sons). They do not affect their feelings because of the trivialities of life, but are more intimate and harmonious.
However, the two who love each other, as long as they are mortal, they will face life and death. The two have been in love for more than twenty years.
Prince Albert died at the age of 42.
Her beloved husband died prematurely, and Victoria had ten thousand unwilling, but she was the king of a country. She soon came out of the pain of bereavement. However, her dress and temperament also underwent obvious changes, such as wearing only black clothes. And whether it is to his own children, or the minister, he is indifferent.
Someone once said that the best way to heal a love injury is to do things desperately.
After the Prince's departure, Victoria devoted all her energies to governing the country. It was during this period that was the peak of Queen Victoria's iron-fisted rule, making Britain known as the "Empire of the Sun Never Sets" and also known as the Victorian Era.
On a rainy day in January 1901, Victoria died on the Isle of Wight, where she was most fond of the Prince, with her longing for the Prince.
Victoria herself has hemophilia, and she and Prince Albert are cousins, and they are close relatives and married, so that their 9 children are either suffering from hemophilia or carrying hemophilia genes. This was the main reason for the spread of hemophilia in the royal families of all European countries.
Most of Victoria's nine children are married to members of the European royal family, making her a veritable "grandmother of Europe".