Assassination: The Royal Family's 1000-Year Curse - Plot & Excerpts
She would be called Alexandrina Georgiana. The Regent stopped him, saying that in Britain the name ‘George’ could not be second to any other name; so the Duke replaced Georgiana with his wife’s name, Victoria. Throughout her childhood, the Duke’s daughter was called ‘Drina’ by her family. On the day she succeeded to the crown, numerous official documents were put before her for signature. Expected to reign as Queen Alexandrina Victoria, she signed ‘Victoria’; and that was how it would remain. Victoria’s father received his military training in Germany, and he was later appointed Governor of Gibraltar. He treated his soldiers so harshly that they mutinied, and the Duke was recalled. In England, he joined the race to produce an heir to the crown, and he married Princess Marie Louise Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; she was the sister of Prince Leopold, the widower of George IV’s daughter Princess Charlotte. Years before that, on the death of her aunt, it had been arranged for the 17-year-old Princess Viktoria (she used her third name) to marry her late aunt’s 40-year-old husband, and she bore him two children – to be Queen Victoria’s half-brother and half-sister.
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