How Did Queen Victoria Make Tough Decisions

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United Kingdom. During her time as queen, she had to make a lot of tough decisions. Queen Victoria had to make decisions on what to do when wars came about. She didn't know if she entered her country in these wars if they would benefit from it or if it would cause them greater problems. “When Victoria was crowned queen the British people had lost respect for the throne” (Sack). But in the end Queen Victoria proved herself hard-working and had the people's best interest at heart and gained their respect back. In all of the hard decisions that she made she was wise about them all. Queen Victoria was determined to gain control rather than her partner who was dangerous and power hungry. Due to her dangerous partner it cause the first two major crises since she had become queen. …show more content…
Her dangerous partnership caused 2 crises and they broke out in 1839” (Victoria). The worst of the two crises was when Sir Robert Peel tried to get Queen Victoria to use trickery on the people. When word got around the people were upset and confused as to why she would do such a thing. In 1877 war broke out and Queen Victoria had to make a difficult decision, whether to enter the Russo-Turkish war. She choose to enter the war and not long after Britain entered they became in control of the war. ”When Queen Victoria made this risky decision she didn't know what would come of it but she thought it was the best decision for the country” (Victoria). She thought that if Britain did not enter the country would be taken over. But since she choose to enter the war it definitely turned out to be the best for them because they strategically gained control over the war. This wasn’t a popular decision at all but best she did what she thought was best for the country and the people and she was right. Even though she faced all of these obstacles she didn’t give up when times got

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