Victoria's children
I can describe some of Queen Victoria's experiences of being a mother.
Victoria's children
I can describe some of Queen Victoria's experiences of being a mother.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Victoria wrote about her pregnancies in her diaries: she didn't like being pregnant and wrote newborn babies were ugly.
- Victoria and Albert's first child, a girl they named Victoria, was born in November 1840.
- Victoria and Albert had nine children together; her first son, Albert Edward, became king when Queen Victoria died.
- When her 8th and 9th babies were born, Queen Victoria used special new medical invention called chloroform.
- Thanks to Victoria, chloroform became quite popular, which helped many other women when they were having babies.
Keywords
Diaries - when people write about their life they sometimes write in books called diaries
Pregnant - when a woman is pregnant she is going to give birth to a baby
Chloroform - chloroform was used in Victorian England to reduce pain
Common misconception
That inventions are always things like machines, robots, computers and so on.
Inventions come from ideas, and people can have ideas about so many different situations in life. The invention here for example is a type of pain relief for childbirth, a medical invention.
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