Everyone has faced situations where we don´t know how to act and respond, so we stop, take a deep breath and start thinking “What would Super-someone have done in my situation?” Nearly every one of us has had someone we look up to, it can be a friend, a family member or someone famous, and these figures are important as their actions inspire us and it has a great impact in our lives. For me is no exception as I have also faced this situations, and I will share who is that person I think about, a person that inspires me, and why she has had an impact in my life. The person I am talking about is Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, as she also confronted many challenges that had an important influence in her life and in her reign. I chose this
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Victoria found out she was queen in the early morning of June 20th, 1837, when the archbishop of Canterbury and lord chamberlain called her to announce the death of William IV but Victoria did not inherit the kingdom of Hanover as there the Salic Law still existed, a law that prevented women from inheriting the throne, and on June 28th, 1838, Victoria was coronate queen at Westminster Abbey. Furthermore, a year after her coronation, on October 15, 1839, Victoria proposed to her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in her journal she described him as “charming, and extremely handsome”, on February 10th, 1840 they got married; Victoria once said “I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting” and even with this opinion Victoria and Albert had nine children who married into other royal families which gave Victoria the nickname of “Grandmother of Europe”. During the following years of her reign and marriage, Victoria didn´t lost her passion for her husband and also became dependent on Albert so he started to assume a political role, unfortunately on December 14, 1861, Prince Albert passed away due to typhoid fever which led Victoria descend into a deep depression, to stay in isolation for many years and to wear black for the rest of her life. Queen Victoria had to experience a loss that many people have …show more content…
Queen Victoria went through many situations that any of us can experienced: the loss of someone close to us that people think you are not able to do something because of your age or your gender, and she didn´t pay attention to what others think of her. It is important to consider that all of us had made and will make mistakes that will affect in many aspects of our lives, it is no different if you are queen. During the years in which Victoria lived, women couldn´t do many things and people thought that they only could take care of the children, considering this, Queen Victoria disturbed with this social thoughts as she came to reign a vast empire. Queen Victoria always did what she though was right, and she let her past influence in her present which might have help to cause more conflicts than to find solutions. Victoria was a woman who experienced unpleasant situations in her life but she kept trying to move on and is something to be admired as many persons go through this; Victoria is a person to be admired as she went against the opinions of a conservative society and against the people who wanted her to step back, don´t you think that nowadays we need more women like
Victoria found out she was queen in the early morning of June 20th, 1837, when the archbishop of Canterbury and lord chamberlain called her to announce the death of William IV but Victoria did not inherit the kingdom of Hanover as there the Salic Law still existed, a law that prevented women from inheriting the throne, and on June 28th, 1838, Victoria was coronate queen at Westminster Abbey. Furthermore, a year after her coronation, on October 15, 1839, Victoria proposed to her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in her journal she described him as “charming, and extremely handsome”, on February 10th, 1840 they got married; Victoria once said “I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting” and even with this opinion Victoria and Albert had nine children who married into other royal families which gave Victoria the nickname of “Grandmother of Europe”. During the following years of her reign and marriage, Victoria didn´t lost her passion for her husband and also became dependent on Albert so he started to assume a political role, unfortunately on December 14, 1861, Prince Albert passed away due to typhoid fever which led Victoria descend into a deep depression, to stay in isolation for many years and to wear black for the rest of her life. Queen Victoria had to experience a loss that many people have …show more content…
Queen Victoria went through many situations that any of us can experienced: the loss of someone close to us that people think you are not able to do something because of your age or your gender, and she didn´t pay attention to what others think of her. It is important to consider that all of us had made and will make mistakes that will affect in many aspects of our lives, it is no different if you are queen. During the years in which Victoria lived, women couldn´t do many things and people thought that they only could take care of the children, considering this, Queen Victoria disturbed with this social thoughts as she came to reign a vast empire. Queen Victoria always did what she though was right, and she let her past influence in her present which might have help to cause more conflicts than to find solutions. Victoria was a woman who experienced unpleasant situations in her life but she kept trying to move on and is something to be admired as many persons go through this; Victoria is a person to be admired as she went against the opinions of a conservative society and against the people who wanted her to step back, don´t you think that nowadays we need more women like