Queen Victoria - as she became aged 18 in 1837 after three of her uncles died without surviving heirs - went on to rule for 63 years, seven months and two days.
if Queen Victoria was angry with her eldest son, Bertie - the future Edward VII - this was as nothing to the fury reserved for her own mother, the Duchess of Kent.
What was Queen Victoria's childhood like under the tough rules of the 'Kensington System'? Lucy Worsley explores the monarch’s youth at Kensington Palace
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