Victoria had 9 10 11 brothers and sisters.
Victoria was delivered by a male female doctor on May 24^th 1819.
She was christened Alexandrina Victoria. Her nickname was Drina Vicky Ria .

Her mother was worried that she would be kidnapped murdered frightened by one of her uncles so the princess was never left alone.
Until the age of three she spoke only English Welsh German .  She learned to speak Italian because she loved opera.

She was trained as a child to hold her head up when eating by a bunch of cloves sprig of holly sharp brooch tied under her chin.
Victoria was so fussed over that she was not allowed to walk up or down stairs unless it was Friday. it was daylight. she was holding someone's hand.

Before becoming queen she always had to sleep in her mother's room.

Victoria proposed marriage to Albert!! They married in 1840.

Victoria and Albert had 8 9 10 11 children. ( Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice.)

Albert died of Typhoid in 1861. Victoria was devastated. She wore black clothes for the rest of her life. She made servants take hot water for shaving to his dressing room each morning even after he had died.

In 1863 Victoria was saved twice in carriage accidents by a Englishman German Italian American Scot called John Brown. Brown was given the job of leading Victoria’s pony when she went riding. They became good friends.

Victoria smoked cigarettes to make her cheerful. keep the flies away. relax. .
When John Brown died in 1883 Victoria erected a statue of Brown at Balmoral. The queen was so sad that she could not ride her horse walk for a year eat meat again ; for the rest of her life she used a cane or wheelchair. A flower was placed on Brown’s pillow every day until Victoria herself died.

She was buried beside Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace Westminster Abbey Windsor Castle .