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A distinctive pick up to guest author Leslie Carroll! Leslie is a multi-published author of ancient and bestow fantasy as well as ancient non-fiction books: "Imperial Kindred "and her latest take home, "Seedy Imperial Marriages. "Salute Leslie! I'm so enthusiastic to handhold you about today, remarkably to the same degree I love your books! Believe you all blow your own horn Leslie's article today... she's telltale VICTORIA'S Sneaky...Limit people think of Queen Victoria-the emperor whose name epitomized an era of prudery, priggishness and propriety-as a surly and starchy woman. As soon as all, she did retort to a lunch table silliness with the acrid epigram, "We are not amused."On May 18, 1836, six go shy of her seventeenth centenary, Victoria was introduced to her two Coburg cousins, Albert and his higher brother Ernest. Victoria's timely pimples to her sixteen-year-old cousin was strongly positive. According to her life story highest, "... Albert... is beyond doubt handsome; his hackle is about the especially seasoning as mine; his eyes are large and dwindling, and he has a beautiful trunk and a very musical lips with fine teeth; but the thrill of his facade is his musing, which is furthermost delightful; c'est `a la fois [it's composed] full of spotlessness and delectableness, and very nimble and able."However, Albert surreptitiously nursed some doubts on the subject of Victoria's suitability as a fortune group. His blood relation had wed his decisively higher onset at the age of sixteen, but had run off with a attractive army lieutenant every time Albert was just five time old. The adventure soured his views on females and sex and without a doubt helped to form Albert's zero-tolerance policy on the subject of scandalous women and the men who enabled them. Victoria was ebullient and vivacious; she enjoyed late nights and parties and in addition jovial in the trivialities and fripperies of board life and restraint.Nonetheless, the spend time at progressed swimmingly. On June 7, Victoria wrote to her mother's brother Leopold, Sovereign of the Belgians, with standard effusiveness, "I destitution thank you, my wonderful Uncle, for the scrutiny of great happiness you handhold contributed to give me, in the person of taciturn Albert. Correspond me... to tell you how jovial I am with him, and how much I like him in every way. He possesses every quality that can be preference to assemble me right happy. He is so ring out, so calming, and so good, and so cheerful, too. He has in any case, the furthermost longed-for and beautiful development and polish you can probably see." The stage had been set for a in shape love match, that rarest of occurrences in the history of royal marriages.On June 20, 1837, the eighteen-year-old Victoria acceded to the throne on the release of her uncle, William IV. The queen's miniature yet impressive attitude quickly won her the acclaim of her ministers as well as her subjects. And, nearby sharply, intimates ministers began pressuring her to get married. But Victoria felt unready to wed right away-if at all. "I made-up I dreaded the consideration of marrying; that I was so common to handhold my own way, that I consideration it was 10 to 1 that I shouldn't solidify with anybody," Victoria wrote in her journal on April 18, 1839. "Oh, but you would handhold it still," the PM, Lord Melbourne, unexpectedly self-confident the young ruler.But Melbourne, next to sixty time old and as much a onset ratio for Victoria as he was a parliamentarian, argued against the consciousness of nuptial one of her cousins, adding, "Nation Coburgs are not very popular abroad; the Russians disturb them."Her quiet feet full-grown calm colder at the idea of marriage, Victoria wrote to her uncle Leopold that July, expressing her agitation at being higher (by a few months) than Albert. Moreover, she assiduously knew him and was in addition agitated that they vigor not discharge one original as lovers: "... one can never product earlier than for feelings, and I may not handhold the feeling for him which is have to to guarantee happiness. I may like him as a friend, and as a cousin, and as a brother, but not more; and poverty this be the cover (which is not promise), I am very troubled that it poverty be tacit that I am not corrupt of any disobey of warrant, for I never gave any...."So in October 1839 Albert set out subsequently promote for England and a second look-see. And upon meeting him again, the unwilling queen became astonished. Her October 10 journal highest documents, "... It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert-who is beautiful." The taking into consideration day her life story was full of acclaim for his waltzing and his horsemanship. On October 13, she admitted in her journal that she had uncommon her mind about postponing marriage for a few time. Melbourne counseled her not to hem in too long; if they vacant Government with a royal conflict portray was quiet the legislative body can do to find a way of uneasy it if they so chose. And he urged her to inform Albert of her pronouncement without continue.No one can nominate to a regnant queen of England. So the twenty-year-old Victoria was encouraged to take hostage the cleverness and present her hand, or ask for Albert's, in marriage. It was one of the few times she took the pedals in their relationship. Her life story highest of October 15, 1839, memorializes the proposal:"At about 1/2 p. 12 [shared past twelve] I sent for Albert; he came to the Confidential wherever I was singlehanded, and a long time ago a few minutes I made-up to him that I consideration he destitution be reasonable why I wished [him] to come about, and that it would make me happy if he would agree to to what I wished [to get married me]; we embraced each supplementary over and over again, and he was so calming, so affectionate; Oh! To feel I was, and am, loved by such an Archangel as Albert was too great a discuss to describe! He is perfection; immaculateness in every way-in beauty-in everything! I told him I was quite worthless of him and kissed his taciturn hand-he made-up he would be very happy [to attach his life with her] and was so calming and seemed so happy, that I clearly felt it was the happiest, brightest cape in my life.... Oh! how I honor and love him, I cannot say! How I will experiment with to make him feel as quiet as possible the great asking price he has made..."That end of the day, otherwise the queen went to bed, she was handed a letter that read, "Honey anyhow wonderful Victoria, How is it that I handhold deserved so much love, so much affection?... I back that Illusion has sent me an angel whose talent shall elucidate my life.... In body and soul ever your slave, your exact ALBERT." As soon as reading this drag out and warm indication, Victoria blaze into cry. According to Victoria's life story, during Albert's spend time at the two of them kissed and snuggled and safe hands at every prohibited opportunity. Albert accompanied her to a adjust review in Hyde Align, wherever Victoria may handhold full of activity promote scene of her fianc'e's prominence than the military marches, observing that Albert was here a pair of pasty cashmere breeches with "energy under them."On February 10, 1840, three time a long time ago becoming queen, Victoria married her first cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in the Chapel Imperial, St. James's.It's complicated to catch sight of how she begin the time to etch a journal highest on her nuptial day, but Victoria's firsthand put a label on of deeds can assiduously be fitting by original. According to the life story, otherwise swallow her blood relation brought her a nosegay of orangey blossoms and a festoon of orangey blossoms was positioned atop her hairdo; the festoon would set the marriage path for decades, as would the seasoning of her attire. "I wore a pasty satin gown with a very glaring add-on of Honiton lace, imitation of old. I wore my Turkish rectangle ribbon and necklaces, and Albert's beautiful azure jam." Albert wore the different of a British Place Arrange, decked out with the Appointment of the Garter."When I into at St. James's, I went into the dressing-room wherever my 12 young Train-bearers were, proper all in pasty with pasty roses, which had a beautiful effect. Now I waited a quiet till be fond of Albert's Folder had motivated into the Chapel." His convoy, and hers, were each green and loud. But portray was a with droll cape every time it was repugnant that Victoria's marriage train wasn't long enough to provide all twelve of her bridesmaids to make normally; like the women's refrain in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, they had to day trip fire with judicious, mincing steps, embezzle care not to bump into each supplementary.Witnessed by three hundred set, "The Routine was very utter, and fine and simple, and I think necessitate to make an enduring impression on every one who promises at the Altar to keep what he or she promises...," Victoria wrote. Later on, she returned to Buckingham Palace singlehanded with Albert, wherever they had a shared hour of conversation to themselves otherwise it was time to set out for Windsor. Victoria uncommon out of her reserved nuptial group into a simpler elucidation of the especially, "a pasty silk gown trimmed with swansdown and a fedora with orangey flowers."As soon as they reached Windsor and acclimated themselves to their armed of rooms, Albert "took me on his circuit, and kissed me.... We had lunch in our current room; but I had such a stomach-turning hurt that I can eat energy and was leap to lie down in the focal point dwindling room for the break of the end of the day, on the dress up, but, ill or not, I never, never disappeared such an end of the day.... He called me names of tenderness, I handhold never yet heard used to me before-was enthusiasm beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!-May God help me to do my ask too much of as I necessitate and be vital of such blessings."Also such warm joy and dynamism, it's doubtful-despite the raging headache-that Victoria was gritting her teeth and thinking of England as she and Albert consummated their marriage.On February 11, 1840, the day a long time ago the nuptial night, Victoria awoke in a assert of enthusiasm, but she still had time to venerate her feelings in her journal. "When day dawned (for we did not get some shuteye much) and I beheld that beautiful blissful encompass by my side, it was promote than I can express! He does look so beautiful in his shirt only, with his beautiful throat seen...." Subsequently that day she wrote to her uncle Leopold, voluble, "Undeniably, I do not think it possible for any one in the world to be happier, or as happy as I am.... In the role of I can do to make him happy will be my greatest discuss...."Victoria's afterglow remains just as bright in her journal highest of February 12. "Previous to the 2nd day to the same degree our marriage; his love and painfulness is beyond no matter which, and to kiss that taciturn soft insolence, to press my way in to his, is attractive enthusiasm...."The taking into consideration day, the woman who a long time ago Albert's release persistently refused to own up that women had such total appendages as "legs" wrote with a hint of the erotic, "My be fond of Albert put on my stockings for me. I went in and saw him shave; a great discuss for me."Which only goes to show that the real Victoria (at smallest as a young bride) was far sexier than any lingerie company can handhold imagined!Ensure Leslie at http://www.lesliecarroll.com/