On Mon, 23 May 2016 21:39:02 -0400, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 5/23/2016 9:12 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> She inherited the throne after her father died and her three older
>> brothers had all died. In an age when thrones were usually passed on to
>> the eldest son, that was more a stroke of fate that anything she did.
>>
>I believe that it was her _father's_ three older bothers, not _her_
>brothers.

I think you're correct - anyway, at 18 she suddenly found herself
Queen without any training. She had a bad relationship with her
mother, none with her father and that probably accounts for why she
was so attached to Albert.

At Osborne House you can see all the water colours she did of her
children as they grew, no cameras then She was an expert with
water colours, not the easiest medium.