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Queen Victoria’s Children
1. From which of her sons bedrooms did Queen Victoria remove a portrait of
Lily Langtry while he slept?
2. What instrument did Affie teach himself to play?
3. What was the name of the attendant known familiarly to the children as
‘Laddle’?
4. Which of her sons did Queen Victoria describe as ‘
our
great delight so full of fun and conversation and so full of anxiety to learn –
always at something, never an instant idle – such steam power, such energy it is
such a great pleasure to see this…and he is so handsome.”
5. What was the name of the phrenologist whom Prince Albert invited to examine his children’s heads?
6. Which of her children did Queen
Victoria describe as ‘ in some things clever…but...very odd;
dreadfully contradictory, very indiscreet’?
7.
What did Queen Victoria call ‘the greatest maxim of all’ with regard to
children?
8.
What was the name of the yacht on which the children were sailing from Osborne
to the mainland when it struck a smaller boat, resulting in the drowning of four
people?
9. What
was the name of the academy which Louise attended in order to further her
artistic endeavours?
10.
What was the name of the toy fort and barracks which Queen Victoria’s son built
for themselves to play in at Osborne?
11.
Which of Queen Victoria’s children did she describe as ‘one bright spot on which
I love to dwell’?
12.
Whom did Prince Leopold wish to marry, but, finding she was already in love with
someone else, persuaded his mother to provide for her a home in England so she
could marry the man she had chosen?
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Answers to yesterday's questions:
1. Alice’s full name was Alice Maud Mary – in whose honour was the name
‘Mary’ included? Queen Victoria’s aunt, the Duchess of Gloucester
2. Which of her godfathers arrived ‘just in time to be too late’ for her
christening? Ernest, King of Hanover
3. After Lady Lyttelton had retired, what was the name of Alice’s
governess? Miss Hildyard
4. In which city (then a town) in northern England did Alice make her first
official appearance? Leeds
5. How old was Alice when she first witnessed an assassination attempt on
her mother? Six – William Hamilton attempted to shoot the Queen but his pistol
had not been properly loaded.
6. Which – then potentially fatal – illness did Alice contract in 1855?
Scarlet fever
7. Which housing reformer took Alice incognito through the London slums and
later advised her on housing improvements in Darmstadt? Octavia Hill
8. Which novel by Sir Walter Scott was Alice reading to her father in the
days leading up to his death? The Talisman
9. Which controversial theologian, who dedicated a book to Alice, gained
great influence over her and, according to the French Ambassador, ‘shook her faith to the depths’? David
Strauss
10.
Which English reformer who had done much to improve the education of girls in
India accompanied Alice through the schools in Darmstadt following the Congress
of Women, which the princess has organised? Mary Carpenter
11.
After whose death did Alice write to her mother: “You
understand, how long and deep my grief must be,” she wrote. “And does not one
grow to love one’s grief, as having become part of the being one loved – as if
through this one could still pay a tribute of love to them, to make up for the
terrible loss, and missing of not being able to do anything for the beloved
anymore?” Her little son, Frittie
12. What were Alice’s last
words? Dear Papa
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