The Year of Queen Victoria Roundup

I hope you have found The Year of Queen Victoria as interesting as I have. We have looked at the circumstances surrounding her birth, her stifling childhood, her accession to the throne at the age of just 18 and her subsequent marriage to Prince Albert. Their many children married all over Europe, earning Victoria the nickname of Grandmother of Europe.

Here are the Top 10 articles of the year:

1. Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace
2. Queen Victoria and haemophilia
3. The Year of Queen Victoria – Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part two)
4. Princess Victoria in her Journal – 28 July 1834
5. The Year of Queen Victoria – Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part three)
6. The Year of Queen Victoria – Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part one)
7. A memorandum by Queen Victoria – 29 September 1855
8. Queen Victoria and the American Civil War
9. The Year of Queen Victoria – Prince Albert: King in all but name (Part one)
10. The Year of Queen Victoria – The self-sacrificing Princess Alice

The year of 2020 will be dedicated to the life and times of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who was born in 1880 and was Queen from 1890.