The Victoria Letters: The Official Companion to the ITV Victoria Series

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The 140-year-old table letter box shows how much she valued sending mail, according to Hansons Auctioneers. Ramm, Agatha, ed. (1990), Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters between Queen Victoria and Her Eldest Daughter, 1886–1901, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, ISBN 978-0-86299-880-6 Mortimer, Raymond, ed. (1961), Queen Victoria: Leaves from a Journal, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy

From 1830 onwards the duchess and Conroy implemented what was termed the ‘Kensington system’. Their aim was to ensure that Victoria was totally dependent on them, and would not look to others for advice when she came to the throne. The duchess was appointed regent in the event of William IV dying before Victoria reached eighteen, and Conroy's aim was to get the princess to agree to appoint him her private secretary. There was thus a practical, political reason for keeping Victoria away from the court, where she might find other advisers, and away from society, in which she might find alternative sources of support. The Kensington system was, however, more than an exercise in ambition: the aim was to make Victoria herself popular and ensure the survival of the monarchy. The Britishness of her education and upbringing was to be stressed, while her youth and purity marked her out as the herald of a new future, distanced from the moral and political corruption of the British ancien régime. Family of Queen Victoria, spanning the reigns of her grandfather, George III, to her grandson, George VQueen Victoria’s instinctive need to write and record everything was symptomatic of the age – a century of ever-moving pens on paper. Only a small number of her original handwritten journals survive, from 1832 up to 1 January 1837, the year she became Queen. (Queen Victoria’s drafts exist from 1843-55). These juvenile journals were mostly read by her mother, the Duchess of Kent with whom she shared her bedroom, which accounts for why only after her accession, do we start to see them properly become Victoria’s diaries – so in a way, this was the first censoring of them, because they were read by other eyes. Woodham-Smith, Cecil (1972), Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times 1819–1861, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 0-241-02200-2

Hemophilia B, National Hemophilia Foundation, 5 March 2014, archived from the original on 24 March 2015 , retrieved 29 March 2015 The Victorians pulled no punches when it came to proper spelling and grammar. Letter-Writing: Its Ethics and Etiquette (1890) says:

Officer, Lawrence H.; Williamson, Samuel H. (2018), Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1270 to Present, MeasuringWorth, archived from the original on 6 April 2018 , retrieved 5 April 2018 See also: Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria Victoria amused. The remark "We are not amused" is attributed to her but there is no direct evidence that she ever said it, [66] [212] and she denied doing so. [213] Her staff and family recorded that Victoria "was immensely amused and roared with laughter" on many occasions. [214]

Shaw, William Arthur (1906), "Introduction", The Knights of England, vol.1, London: Sherratt and Hughes, p.xxxiUnder section2 of the Regency Act 1830, the Accession Council's proclamation declared Victoria as the King's successor "saving the rights of any issue of His late Majesty King William the Fourth which may be borne of his late Majesty's Consort". "No. 19509", The London Gazette, 20 June 1837, p.1581 Taylor, Miles (2020), "The Bicentenary of Queen Victoria", Journal of British Studies, 59: 121–135, doi: 10.1017/jbr.2019.245, S2CID 213433777