Does anyone know some interesting facts about Queen Victoria?

Answer 1

Supposedly, when her ex-prime minister Benjamin Disraeli was on his death bed, Victoria offered to come and see him, he is said to have answered, “No, it is better not. She would only ask me to take a message to Albert.”)

Answer 2

She was a right little goer in bed apparently, and used to masturbate with a carved marble phallus made by Prince Albert in his own 'Image' , so to speak.
It is kept in the Royal Archives in Windsor Castle, in the 'special collections' bit where there is limited access to scholars.
It is also why all royal male children are circumcised as well, just as Albert was, all those years ago.

Answer 3

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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loads of info on this site

Answer 4

Being agorophobic in her later years, she quickly subscribed to the first live entertainment broadcasting system in England, "The Electrophone"...

http://broadcastellan.blogspot.com/2006/10/now-on-air-down-wires.html

Answer 5

1) she didn't believe that girls had sex with other girls - so only male homosexuality was made illegal.
2) she bought Balmoral for Prince Albert
3) she wore rings on all fingers as she thought she had podgy hands
4) she thought the telephone was ugly and had a pretty box built to put it in
5) Edward VIII thought she was scary when he was little and he would burst into tears at the sight of her

Answer 6

She died at Osborn House, on the Isle of Wight

Answer 7

1) She was called Alexandrina Victoria and known to the family as "Drina".
2) Until she came of age at 18 she always slept in her mother's room.
3) She was very much under the thumb of her governess, Baronness Lehzen, who continued to be an important figure in her household and advise her after she became Queen.
4) Despite her reputation for not being amused, she was described by her granddaughter, Princess Marie-Louise as being a very jolly grandmother.
5) She was expected to marry the elder of the two German first cousins lined up for her, but she preferred the younger Albert to the more apparently suitable Ernst, and proposed to him.
6) She was supposed to be an impartial adviser to the governments of her day, but was an unashamed Tory.
7) She produced nine children, forty grandchildren and thirty-seven great grandchildren.
8) Despite this she was no lover of babies and wrote to her daughter: "I have no adoration for very little babies...An ugly baby is a very nasty object -- and the prettiest is frightful when undressed..."
9) She could be painfully blunt, even when writing to her daughter, who had just given birth to the former Kaiser:"I never cared for you near as much as you seem to about the baby; I care much more for the younger ones (poor Leopold perhaps excepted)..."
10) She was one of the first users of chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth.
11) She would begin the day by taking lemon juice squeezed into water and her healthy complexion was attributed to that.
12) After the death of Albert, she always wore widow's weeds, but despite being dressed in black she had quite an eye for fashionable touches and her clothes contained very elegant features.
13) She kept a diary from the age of 13 until the end of her life.
14) She wrote daily letters to her Uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians.
15) She and Prince Albert are credited with having invented the tartan in about 1850. It was intended that the tartan should be personal to the Sovereign's family and so it is not possible to purchase it for public use.
16) She had a close association with her Balmoral gamekeeper John Brown and the late Queen Mother claimed she found documents in the royal archives at Windsor suggesting they had married. Asked what she had done about the discovery, she said she burned the documents.
17) When she was buried, her last wishes were respected, namely to have one of Prince Albert's dressing gowns beside her in the coffin and a lock of John Brown's hair placed in her left hand, together with a picture of him.
18) Despite having no ancestors with haemophilia,she passed the mutation to her son Leopold and, through several of her daughters, to various royals across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany, and Russia. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, son of Nicholas II, was a descendant of Queen Victoria and suffered from hemophilia.
19) Queen Victoria's ancestry was German and there had been a long history within it of cousins marrying. The fact that haemophilia seemed to arise spontaneously fuels speculation that was in circulation a couple of centuries ago that she may have been illegitimate, her mother having been suspected of unfaithfulness to her husband, the Duke of Kent.
20) She was very much against the women's lib of her day, despite deploring the enslavement of women as child rearing animals and despite holding the top job herself. "The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety."

Answer 8

Was the first Royal to go by train

Answer 9

* Queen Victoria publicly praised and used the fashionable 19th century cocaine-based drink Vin Mariani that later inspired Coca-Cola. The drink was also praised by Popes Leo XIII and Saint Pius X
* Of the current line of succession to the British throne, the first 510 people listed are descended from Victoria
* She became a grandmother at 39 and a great-grandmother at 59
* She died in the arms of her first grandchild, the German Emperor William II
* She outlived three of her nine children and came within seven months of outliving a fourth (her eldest daughter, Vicky, who died in August, 1901)
* She outlived eleven of her 42 grandchildren
* She outlived three of her 88 great-grandchildren
* As of October 2006, there were two surviving great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria: Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Sweden and Lady Katherine Brandram
* Queen Victoria became the de facto first Queen of Canada. The Dominion of Canada was created in 1867, during the reign of Queen Victoria, making her Canada's first sovereign
* The Royal Military College of Canada was founded in 1874 and opened two years later. In 1878 Queen Victoria conferred the title, "Royal"
* Queen Victoria took on the title Empress of India in 1876, officially becoming the first British Monarch to rule India
* She was the first Queen of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia was confederated on 1 January 1901, only 21 days before her death
* Her first act after coming to the throne was to remove her bed from her mother's room
* Every day for forty years after her Prince Consort had died, the Queen ordered that his clothes be laid afresh on his bed in his suite at Windsor Castle
* Queen Victoria was the only world leader to respond positively to messages that were sent to 19th century monarchs by Bahá'u'lláh, the Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith, inviting them to establish the "Most Great Peace". Out of all the empires addressed, hers - albeit in a lessened form - is the only empire that still remains
* Queen Victoria started the tradition of a bride wearing a white dress at her wedding. Before Victoria's wedding a bride would wear her best dress of no particular colour
* The queen and all her female-line descendants are known to be members of mitochondrial haplogroup H
* She was the first British monarch to be photographed
* She surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest lived British monarch when she reached the age of 81 years and 240 days on 19 January 1901, only three days before her death
* One of her favourite books was The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Answer 10

ask Fiona ( the Royal Historian)