One of history's most iconic Queens, Victoria was an era-defining figure whose fascinating life continues to inspire storytellers today. While you've surely heard of the long-reigning British monarch, there's plenty about Victoria that will still surprise you.
1. Her first name wasn't Victoria.
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Born in Kensington Palace on May 24, 1819, Queen Victoria was originally named Alexandrina Victoria, after her godfather, Tsar Alexander I, but always preferred to go by her second name, or the nickname 'Drina. At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession for the British crown, behind the four eldest sons of George III, including her three uncles and her father, Edward.
2. She was the first member of the Royal family to live at Buckingham Palace.
Shortly after her accession to the throne, Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace, which was previously owned by her late uncle King William IV. This made Queen Victoria the first reigning monarch to take up residence at Buckingham, though her move did not come without its struggles. As the royal family's website puts it, 'Her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840 soon showed up the Palace's shortcomings.'
The Palace was in need of extreme renovations if it was going to be a family home as Queen Victoria intended it to be. Victoria put in the work, adding an entirely new wing, and years later, Buckingham continues to serve as a place of royal business and the London residence of Queen Elizabeth.
3. She was barely five feet tall.
The monarch was four inches shorter than Queen Elizabeth II.
4. She became Queen when she was 18.
At 6 a.m. on June 20, 1837, Victoria was woken from her bed at and informed that her uncle, King William IV, had suffered a heart attack and died during the night. Less than a month after turning 18, Victoria was Queen.
5. Growing up, she was under constant supervision.
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Less than a year after Queen Victoria's birth, her father, Edward, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of George III) died of pneumonia, leaving the young princess to be raised by her mother. Following his death, Victoria's mother, Duchess Victoria, was prepared to rule alongside her daughter if Victoria's uncle died and she ascended to the throne before she was officially of age. For this reason, Victoria's mother used a strict code of discipline to shape the Queen-to-be. Later known as the 'Kensington System,' it involved a strict timetable of lessons to improve Victoria's morality and intellect.
This meant she rarely got to interact with children her own age because of the demands on her time. Princess Victoria was under constant adult supervision and was also made to share a bedroom with her mother until she became Queen.
6. She was multilingual.
The young queen was an adept linguist, fluent in both English and German. Her mother and governess both had German roots, so Victoria grew up speaking the language and later used it frequently when speaking to her German husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Queen also studied French, Italian, and Latin.
Toward the end of her reign, when servants from India arrived at Windsor Castle in 1877, her attendant, Abdul Karim, taught the Queen many Hindu and Urdu phrases to better communicate with her servants. 'I am learning a few words of Hindustani to speak to my servants,' she wrote in her diary, according to a book about the period, Victoria & Abdul. 'It is a great interest to me for both the language and the people, I have naturally never come into real contact with before.'
7. She survived at multiple assassination attempts.
During her reign, several attempts were made at Queen Victoria's life, all of them unsuccessful. The first notable attempt was made in 1840, when 18-year-old Edward Oxford fired at the Queen’s carriage in London. Oxford was accused of high treason for his crime and was ultimately found not guilty for reasons of insanity, according to the History channel's website. Two men tried to shoot her in 1842, and in 1849, her carriage was attacked by William Hamilton, an unemployed Irish immigrant who later pled guilty to the crime and was banished for seven years, History reports. One year later, Robert Pate, a former soldier, used an iron-tipped cane to hit the Queen in the head, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
The final notable attempt took place in March of 1882, when a Scottish poet named Roderick Maclean shot at Queen Victoria's carriage with a pistol while leaving the Windsor train station. According to Time, this was Maclean's eighth attempt at assassinating the Queen. Maclean was tried for high treason and was found 'not guilty, but insane,' so Maclean was sentenced to live out his days in an asylum until his death in 1921, the Guardian reports. Despite the chaos and fear that followed the many assassination attempts, Queen Victoria became more and more popular with the public after each attempt.
8. She proposed to her husband.
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In the lead up to her 17th birthday party, then-Princess Victoria met her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Four years later, Victoria, now the monarch, proposed to Prince Albert on October 15, 1839 and they were married on February 10, 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace in London.
Victoria was deeply in love with Albert and, once they were married, she claimed to be truly happy for the first time in her life. After their wedding night, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary, 'I never, never spent such an evening!! My dearest dearest dear Albert .. his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before!'
9. She began more than one popular wedding trend.
At the time of her wedding, it was common for wedding dresses to come in a variety of colors. Queen Victoria, however, wished to show off the lace embroidery of her dress and requested it in white. She also asked that none of her guests wear white so as not to draw attention away from her, and she even had the pattern for her dress destroyed so that it could not be copied, according to Vogue. Queen Victoria accessorized the dress—complete with an 18-foot train—with white satin shoes, Turkish diamond earrings, and a sapphire brooch that belonged to Prince Albert. Over her veil, the queen wore a wreath of myrtle and orange blossoms.
10. And a popular Christmas one as well.
You can thank Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert for your Christmas tree. They popularized the custom in 1848 when Albert sent decorated trees to schools and army barracks around Windsor. An image of the royal family decorating a tree was also published that year, inspiring other British families to do the same.
Victoria and Albert were very hands-on in the process. 'Queen Victoria and Prince Albert brought the tree into Windsor Castle on Christmas Eve and they would decorate it themselves,' Royal Collection curator Kathryn Jones explained to the BBC. 'They would light the candles and put gingerbread on the tree and the children would be brought in.'
11. She and her husband had nine children.
Over the course of her life, Queen Victoria was mother to nine children with Prince Albert. Her sons and daughters would later go on to marry into several other European monarchies, and would go on to produce the Queen's 42 grandchildren.
12. She became the first known carrier of hemophilia, known as the 'Royal disease.'
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Queen Victoria was the first in her family to carry hemophilia B, a blood clotting disorder, but the Queen herself was not a hemophiliac. Because of Victoria's vast lineage, the disorder was passed on to the members of royal and noble families across Europe. A 2009 study in Science Magazine even linked the hemophilia mutation to members of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs.
The disease claimed several of her descendants: Queen Victoria's son Leopold, the Duke of Albany, died at age 30 after he slipped and fell, and two of Queen Victoria's grandsons— Friedrich and Leopold—also bled to death due to the affliction. It is believed that the last royal carrier of the disease was Prince Waldemar of Prussia, who died in 1945, Science Magazine reports.
13. She was the first monarch to ride a train.
The Victorian era was a time of rapid technological advancement and industrialization. Electricity started to become more common and photography became a popular medium, and rail systems spread across Britain. In 1842, Victoria became the first monarch to ride a train, according to PBS. The ride from Slough, near Windsor Castle, to Paddington in West London took about 30 minutes to complete. The 23-year-old Queen found the ride delightful and said the “motion was very slight, and much easier than a carriage—also no dust or great heat,” according to People.
14. She is the second-longest reigning British monarch.
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Not long ago, Queen Victoria held the title of longest reigning British monarch, with a total reign of 63 years and seven months. In 2015, Queen Elizabeth II broke Queen Victoria's record and continues to hold it today.
15. Her name lives on all over the world.
As the Queen of England during Britain's imperial height, Queen Victoria inspired the title of everything from lakes and mountains to cities across what was then the empire. From the 33 Victoria Roads in the United Kingdom to Victoria Park in Bhavnagar, India and two Mount Victorias in New Zealand, her name lives on all over the world.
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Pop on your history hats as we learn about one of Britain’s most famous historical figures – Queen Victoria!
Here you’ll find our top ten facts about Queen Victoria, who until very recently was the longest-reigning queen in history – beaten only by our very own Queen Elizabeth II!
10 facts about Queen Victoria
1) Queen Victoria was born on 24 May 1819 in Kensington Palace in London, England. Her full name was Alexandrina Victoria.
2) Queen Victoria was born to an English father, Edward, Duke of Kent, and a German mother, Princess Maria Louisa Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfald.
3) Victoria became Queen of England in June 1837, when she was just 18 years old. Her coronation took place at Westminster Abbey a year later in June 1838, where everyone cheered “Long live the Queen!”
4) Did you know that Queen Victoria was a linguist? She spoke fluent English and German, and studied other languages, too, including French, Italian and Latin. Later in life, she also learnt the Indian language of Hindustani. Impressive, eh?!
5) Queen Victoria’s husband was Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha – her first cousin, who she married in February 1840. The royal couple first met four years earlier, a few days before Victoria’s 17th birthday party.
6) Victoria and Albert had a whopping nine children together – their names were Victoria, Edward, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold and Beatrice.
7) Albert died in December 1861, when the Queen was 42 years old. The Queen never recovered from his death, and dressed in black as a sign of mourning for the rest of her life.
8) Ruling for over 60 years, Victoria would become the longest reigning British Monarch, and Queen of the biggest empire in history. During her time as Queen, the British Empire included Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and India.
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9) There are lots of famous places and sites around the world named after this famous British Queen, such as the state of Queensland in Australia, Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe, the city of Victoria in Canada, and Victoria Square in Athens, Greece.
10) After a long and eventful life, Queen Victoria died in January 1901, aged 81. She was buried beside her husband Albert at Frogmore Mausoleum near Windsor.
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The Vic2 to HoI4 converter is a tool that takes a Victoria 2 save and generates an HoI4 scenario from it. It can be downloaded from this forum thread or from Steam.
Versions[edit]Version 0.2D[edit]Version 0.2C[edit]Version 0.2B[edit]Version 0.2A[edit]
Version 0.2A finally stops using Jigme Wangchuck as placeholder leader. Many things have been fixed with this release but many still need to be fixed.
Countries now get a name file based on Vic2 primary culture.
Version 0.1B[edit]
Version 0.1B supports HoI4 1.3 and focuses mainly on states:
Army and navy conversion have received some touched ups, and Vic2 great powers get some bonuses after converting. As well as the resources from the Increased Resources mod being incorporated, making it a little more fair if you aren't in Europe.
This version can be acquired at this forum post.
Version 0.1A[edit]
Version 0.1A balances industry conversion, balances manpower conversion, updates victory points, includes more flags, improves localisations, and fixes several bugs. This version can be acquired at this forum post.
Version 0.1[edit]
Version 0.1 creates a fully playable mod. Most details are placeholders, missing, or unbalances. This version can be acquired at this forum post.
Version 0.0[edit]
Version 0.0 creates a mod that will fully load, but that crashes after one day. It is designed to be a technical demonstration rather than a usable tool. This version can be acquired at this forum post.
FAQ[edit]
Q: I used a mod, will the converter work with it?
A: It depends on what the mod changed. Your best bet is to simply try (and let us know how it went). As far as we can tell, it does work well withNNM, PDM, HPM, and games converted from EU4.
Q: What should I put it the Victoria 2 mod directory option?
A: It should be the directory where Victoria 2 stores mods. If Victoria 2 was installed at D:Paradox InteractiveVictoria 2 then this option should be D:Paradox InteractiveVictoria 2mod.
Q: What should I put in the Vic2 Mods option?
A: The name of the folder for any mods you used. For PoD, put PDM. For HPM, put HPM. For Divergences, put 'Divergences of Darkness' (and include the quotes). You can check log.txt after trying to convert to see if this setting was correct. Early on it will say 'Double-check Vic2 mods', and follow that with a list of mods it expected and a list of mods it found. The ones it expects are the ones listed in the option. The ones it found are the ones it could see in your mod folder. The names of the ones it expects should exactly match the names of the ones it found.
Q: I'm trying to convert a EU4 To Vic2 game and keep getting an error. What do I do?
A: You need to include the Vic2 mod from the EU4 to Vic2 converter to properly convert these games. You should put the name of the mod's folder in the Vic2 Mods option, as with other mods.
Q: The converter crashes after no time with no errors and no log.txt (when running through the frontend). What went wrong?
A: You may need to install this if you are not on Windows 10: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 Helping with development[edit]
If you wish to help with development, there are plenty of ways to do so. Descriptions of needs follow. The development thread for the converter is here.
Programmers:
We can always use more programmers. The converter itself is in C++, and the tools that go with it are in C#. And if you know anything about parsing tools like lex and yacc, I’m curious to try replacing our Boost::Spirit-based parser (but don’t have the time to try it myself). If you're familiar with Boost::Spirit, the existing parser could use updates instead.
Map-staring experts:
With the changes to victory points, its clear that the province mappings need more work. The order that HoI4 provinces are linked make a difference for where things like VPs end up, so if you can update province mappings (and send me the file) for areas you know, that'd be helpful.
Flag-lovers:
For reasons that have been discussed in boring detail on the development thread, we can't use flags from Vic2 itself. From what I understand, the converter can use PDM's flags as long as we put a note in the readme file. But I'm worried there might be cases where the PDM tags don't match the Vic2 tags and the flags would be wrong. If someone could check to make sure that's not true (or document the cases where it is), I can add those flags and make lots of errors go away.
Artists:
We're going to eventually need lots of leader portraits for as many Vic2 cultures as possible. If you want to get a head start on creating them, it'd be very helpful. As well, if you want to create flags we're missing, that'd also be great. Especially as we have more ideologies than the base game, and some just reuse flags from other ideologies, which is boring. :p
Testers:
Catching bugs and oddities earlier means they get fixed earlier. I try to release test versions of the converter on the forum for testing, so running those and looking things over is helpful. And if you have professional experience in testing, well, I'm sure we could be doing things far better. Tell me how!
Modders:
We can always use help figuring out how things work, and how we can do them better. If you know how to mod HoI4, we can use your help figuring it out. As well, there's always more room for flavor events, decisions, and the like.
Everyone:
We can always handle more discussion on how things are converted over on the development thread. As well, I try to document implemented items over on the project wiki. And your encouragement helps more than you know.
Conversion details[edit]
This section details how the converter handles various items.
State related items[edit]
Much of the interaction with map happens at the level of states. Therefore converting states is critical to have a robust world.
Map related items[edit]
After setting the states, the map itself needs to be adjusted to accommodate the new states.
Country related items[edit]
Much work must be done to properly convert countries. Most of this has not yet been discussed.
Names
Vic2 country names (normal and special) are used (getting so Soviet Union for a communist-ruled Russia). In older versions, some additional text was instead added. Vanilla names of HoI4 should be used for relative countries (e.g. German Reich for fascist Germany).
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Colors
Country colors are directly converted from the Vic2 countries. However, there is a bug making most of them display strangely. This may be related to having too many countries.
Flags
Many flags were developed for the EU4 to Vic2 converter, and are reused in this converter. If a flag cannot be found and the country was converted fro mEU4 to Vic2, then the flag from the conversion mod is used. Otherwise, no flag is provided. We hope that artists will help create missing flags.
As much as possible, flags from the appropriate matching ideology are used. If the ideology specific flag cannot be found, the general country flag is used instead.
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Capitals
Capitals should end of matching their Vic2 position as closely as possible. However, due to the state system, they may move a little.
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Ideologies
Vic2 upperhouse gets converted to the popularity of ideologies (parties popularity and ruling ideology) matching HoI4 vanilla ones:
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Government
Each country is allowed to have theorists and military chiefs. Furthermore, there is a minister for each ideology, also new ones. Ruling party of major nations is generated based on Vic2 government form and ruling party as in the table below. Minor countries, however, get non-aligned as their ruling party.
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National focuses and focus trees
All countries, like in Vanilla, would start with Generic National Focus. But a special focus tree is created for each of the great powers of Vic2.
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National Unity
Recycled from the Vic2HoI3 converter, national unity is generated according to this formula:
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Technology
Technology is based on the unlocked inventions in Vic2. We are considering incorporating more pre-1936 techs to better handle tech conversion.
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Research Slots
Most nations are converted with two research slots. But Great Powers from Vic2 get four instead.
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Factions
Currently, Vic2 great powers' alliances are converted to factions named 'Alliance of [ruling country]'. We are possibly considering linking special faction names basing to leader culture and ideology.
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Leader portraits
Leader portraits are generated according to the Vic2 culture group of the country.
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Leaders
Countries get a generated entry in the name file based on Vic2 primary culture and also get a generated leader on start.
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Military related items[edit]
Conversion of military units has barely been discussed so far.
Division templates
TBD
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Unit Conversion
Sometime units fade with conversion. Land units are converted under this scheme:
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Navy Conversion
Sometime navies are not converted and vanish. But if not, they're converted following this scheme:
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Air Force Conversion
TBD
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AI/Diplomacy/Events Conversion[edit]
AI is currently just generic AI. Opinions are converted as modifiers. Puppetry and personal unions are converted to 'dominion' state (or the equivalent fascist one). Only general events have been left, Vanilla flavor ones have been removed.
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Vic2 Mods[edit]
The converter is designed to work with Vic2 mods, including games converted from EU4 to Vic2. Other mods may also work. Conversion games, PDM games, and HPM games all seem to work.
HoI4 Mods[edit]
There may be support for combining the converter's output with other HoI4 mods. But this will be a low priority, and currently this is completely untested.
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In Victoria 2:A House Divided the tool tip recommend me to have 2% of my population as clergymen.
How do I increase this percentage?
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In Victoria 2, Not sure if you noticed that when you click on a province, there the little window that shows up detailing information about the province with little icons, there is a button that allows you to select a 'National Focus'. Use this to make the state use up a National Focus point in that province to create more Clergy. 2% population as clergymen is used early on in the game to obtain higher literacy and increase research points. Normally I find its only useful up until maybe the 1860s, after that rapid industrialization tends to come in with the available techs then you want to start making a lot of Clerks as they help you more towards the middle-game to end game with increasing profits, literacy and research points.
Also if you click on the population information and select a province, it tells you how much in percentage increases or decreases in any given category. Highlight the clergy section and there are little 'Criteria' that must be fulfilled to either INCREASE or DECREASE the percentage of conversions into Clergy
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Leon is right. You will need to use your national focus (ideally in your most populous territory) to increase your clergy to 2%.
You can also promote your lower class to clergy quicker by providing them with more personal wealth..eg lower taxes. You can use high taxes to demote your aristocracy in this way also. Job switching from bureaucrats, artisans and officers can also occur if middle class taxes are high, education is well funded and admin/military are poorly funded.
If you have a poor literacy rate or are uncivilised, you will find it beneficial to reach 4% clergy, as this boosts literacy and leads to more research points.
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