WE STILL “CELEBRATE” QUEEN VICTORIA’S BIRTHDAY….IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT
CANADIAN MARKETS CLOSED
SHEESH
NONETHELESS I THINK IT IS INCUMBENT ON ALL GOLDTENT READERS AND POSTERS TO TAKE A MOMENT AND BEHOLD QUEEN VICTORIA
ON THIS SACRED DAY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
SNIPS
After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father’s three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue.
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Victoria married her maternal first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet “grandmother of Europe”.
SO THERE YOU GO…EXPLAINS A LOT….EXACTLY AS WE SUSPECTED…. ROYAL AND NOBLE FAMILIES ARE MOSTLY RETARDS….EUROPE IS RULED BY RETARDS …HA
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Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and thus a regency was avoided. Less than a month later, on 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom.[c] In her diary she wrote, “I was awoke at 6 o’clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing gown) and alone, and saw them. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen
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During Victoria’s first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, 18-year-old Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother. Oxford fired twice, but either both bullets missed or, as he later claimed, the guns had no shot.[61] He was tried for high treason, found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to an insane asylum indefinitely, and later sent to live in Australia
AHA….THAT EXPLAINS AUSTRALIANS THEN