Queen Victoria After Albert

Her Life and Loves

Ilana D Miller

• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781399099721
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Biografías históricas

Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoriamastered her reign. From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacularadvances in the British Empire. Political, scientific, and industrial wonders were changing the world.Britain's influence reached all corners of the earth. But there was one areathat particularly intrigued the Queen. Men. Keenly aware of the opposite sex, her most trusted advisors were men. Lord Melbourne, her first primeminister, was an avuncular presence. Then her beloved husband Prince Albert took the reins until hisdeath in 1861. In a widowhood of forty years, her ministers were a varied lot. She adored Disraeli, disliked Gladstone, and found genuine friendship with Lord Salisbury. Then there was Mr. Brown, the Scottish ghillie who she found wonderfully attractive. Later there was Abdul Karim, the Munshi, or teacher with whom she had amotherly relationship. She adored her son-in-law, Prince Henry of Battenberg, the 'sunshine of theirlives' and was devastated when he died. She also loved her grandson-in-law, Prince Louis Battenberg, who was one of the executors of her will. Those years without Albert were not barren loveless years, they were not without happiness andpleasure, even if the queen herself might protest.