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Queen Victoria and the Chartists
Victoria grew up at Kensington Palace secluded from Court and nation. She came to the throne aged 18 and gave notice to her mother's private secretary, Sir John Conroy, who sought to be her adviser. Her mother, the Duchess of Kent, was also left in no doubt that her period of influence was over. Only her governess, Baroness Lehzen was kept by Victoria's side.
Victoria was happy for Melbourne to advise. He became her Private Secretary. They spent hours every day together
All was not well though in the industrial North. In 1838 a group of working-class leaders published a People's Charter. England was flooded by petitions and pamphlets but no united national movement emerged. It would take years not months to adapt to the Machine Age
Queen Victoria |
VICTORIA (1819-1901)- Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1837-1901 and Empress of India 1877-1901
- Born 24 May 1819 only child of the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
- Father died when she was eight months old
- Came to the throne at 18
- Much admired and relied upon Melbourne but after marrying her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840 they became inseparable and he replaced Melbourne as her main adviser
- Her nine children married into many of the great families of Europe and this affected her foreign policy
- Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861 - Victoria withdrew from public life for more than a decade
- Disraeli persuaded her to return to public life in the 1870s
- Became Empress of India in 1877
- Died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight on 22 January 1901
Victoria's descendants succeeded to the thrones of Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia as well as England.
 
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| 1834 | Melbourne becomes Prime Minister
Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
Tamworth Manifesto is announced
Houses of Parliament are burned down
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| 1835 | Melbourne becomes Prime Minister
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| 1837 | William IV dies
Victoria becomes Queen
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| 1838 | The People's Charter is issued
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| 1839 | The Opium War breaks out
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| 1840 | Victoria marries Prince Albert
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| 1841 | Peel becomes Prime Minister
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| 1842 | The Opium War ends
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| 1845 | The Irish famine starts
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| 1846 | The corn laws are repealed
Russell becomes Prime Minister
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| 1848 | Public Health Act
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| 1851 | The Great Exhibition
Louis Napoleon seizes power in France
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| 1854 | The Crimean War breaks out
Florence Nightingale arrives at Scutari
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| DEMANDS OF THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER | | • | Annual Parliaments |
| • | Universal male suffrage |
| • | Equal electoral districts |
| • | The removal of the property qualification for Membership of Parliament |
| • | The Secret Ballot |
| • | The payment of Members |
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