Does anybody know anything about Queen victoria?

Question

What she did for canada, i have a canadian history assignment on Queen victoria and i need to know how or if she helped canada and what she did for britian

Answer 1

Try to find out about 'responsible government', which I think was introduced early in her reign, in 1841 or thereabouts. It gave more power to the locally elected legislature.

It's hard to say what she 'did' for Canada, as she had scarcely more power then Elizabeth II does now. A lot happened to Canada during her reign, such as the unification of Upper and Lower Canada (after the Durham report) and the granting of Dominion Status. She had to approve these things but they were not her ideas. She was sufficiently popular in Canada that Victoria Day was founded after she died; Britain does not have her birthday as a holiday.

Answer 2

So many links for the name Queen Victoria in google.com...all the best.

Answer 3

I love Queen Victoria. Disraeli was PM during her reign. She said that you could never be too thin or too rich. I like this woman.
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Answer 4

It was Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, who said you can never be too rich or too thin.

Answer 5

here are some educational sites that should help with your assignment:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page118.asp

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRvictoria.htm

http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/text.html

http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Victoria.html


I hope this helps and good luck with your assignment!!

Answer 6

Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. Her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was the sister of King Leopold I of Belgium. George III's eldest son, the Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), had only one child, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. When she died in 1817, the remaining unmarried sons of King George III scrambled to marry and father children to guarantee the line of succession.

At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and widow of Karl, Prince of Leiningen. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on 24 May 1819. She was christened in the Cupola Room of Kensington Palace on 24 June 1819 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Charles Manners-Sutton), and her godparents were the Prince Regent, the Emperor Alexander I of Russia (in whose honour she received her first name), Queen Charlotte of Württemberg and the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Although christened Alexandrina Victoria, from birth she was formally styled Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent. She was called Drina within the family. Princess Victoria's father died of pneumonia eight months after she was born. Her grandfather, George III, died six days later. Princess Victoria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV.

Though she occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only German, the first language of both her mother and her governess, during her early years. After reaching the age of three, however, she was schooled in English. She eventually learned to speak Italian, Greek, Latin, and French. Her educator was the Reverend George Davys and her governess was Louise Lehzen.


Princess Victoria at age 4When Princess Victoria of Kent was eleven years old, King George IV died childless, leaving the throne to his brother, the Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, who became King William IV. Although he was the father of ten illegitimate children by his mistress, the actress Dorothy Jordan, the new king had no living legitimate children. Hence the young Princess Victoria became heiress presumptive. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been no less eligible to reign than an adult would. In order to prevent such a scenario, Parliament passed the Regency Act 1830, under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would act as Regent during the queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Regent.

Princess Victoria met her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, when she was sixteen years old. It was not until a second meeting in 1839 that she fell in love with him. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was her mother's brother, Ernst. Victoria had to propose to him because a man of even slightly lower social status was not allowed to propose to her. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert was not in love with young Victoria, and that he entered into a relationship with her in order to gain social status (he was a minor German prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family wanted the match). Whatever Albert's original reasons for marrying Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage.[citation needed]

and for more detail u can check the link:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom

Answer 7

Here are some links to your questions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page118.asp