Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 8 The Princess Victoria became Queen on June 20, 1837, just five weeks after keeping her eighteenth birthday. She died on January 22, 1001, having reigned for sixty-three years over a kingdom which, during this period, had grown into the strongest empire the world had yet seen. The story of its growth is the subject of this book. It is a story which has no equal in the world's history. It will be interesting to learn something of the young girl-queen so suddenly called to a position of such immense importance. Victoria was the niece of William the Fourth, and daughter of his younger brother, the Duke of Kent. Heir after heir to the British throne had died, and by the time that the little Princess Victoria was twelve years old, it became evident that she would succeed her uncle. For this great post she was educated with care by her widowed mother, so that when the change came it found her prepared to discharge her office with a high sense of public duty. William the Fourth died in the early morning hours of June 20. 1837, at Windsor Castle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.