16 Facts About The Queen Victoria

1. The Queen Victoria plunged into deep depression and pulled back from all the public appearances.

2. The Queen Victoria was christened Alexandrina The Queen Victoria, after one of her godparents.

3. The Queen Victoria was named privately by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, on 24 June 1819 at Kensington Palace.

4. The Queen Victoria barely spoke to her mother after she became queen.

5. The Queen Victoria was still a girl when she took the throne.

6. The Queen Victoria called a doctor in secret and got The Queen Victoria help.

7. The Queen Victoria was only a child, with no idea why she was so important.

8. The Queen Victoria was a carrier of haemophilia, a rare inherited disease that prevents blood from clotting.

9. The Queen Victoria began writing in a journal in 1832 when she was just 13 years old.

10. The Queen Victoria's links with Europe's royal families earned her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe".

11. The Queen Victoria was physically unprepossessing—she was stout, dowdy and only about five feet tall—but she succeeded in projecting a grand image.

12. The Queen Victoria objected when Gladstone proposed appointing the Radical MP Henry Labouchere to the Cabinet, so Gladstone agreed not to appoint him.

13. The Queen Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated.

14. The Queen Victoria found Gladstone's demeanour far less appealing; he spoke to her, she is thought to have complained, as though she were "a public meeting rather than a woman".

15. The Queen Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided.

16. The Queen Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840.