A representative of traditional Victorian women

After the dark Middle Ages, Europe entered the era of industrial revolution. Britain was the first country to carry out the industrial revolution, which reached its peak in the period of Queen Victoria, making Britain an immortal empire. This glorious period of her reign is also known as the Victorian era in British history, and Queen Victoria became a symbol of the British empire never setting. But she once did one thing, which made girls compete to imitate.

Queen Victoria is one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, second only to Queen Elizabeth II. But Victoria's childhood was not happy. Her father, Duke Edward, is an unpopular prince. At that time, after his father and mother got married, he had been living in Bavaria, Germany. It was not until Victoria was born that her parents knew that she might succeed to the throne in the future. For her future development, the Edwards returned to England and gave birth to Victoria.

When Victoria was only eight months old and still babbling, her father, Duke Edward, suddenly caught a cold and died of illness. Edward left his wife and young daughter no property and status, only heavy debts. Since then, life at home has been more difficult. As a princess, Victoria often had only one dress to wear when she was a child. In order to prevent Victoria from complaining, her mother told her that it was bad to wear too many clothes. So that after she became a queen, she still lived frugally and didn't have much clothes.

When she was 1 1 years old, her fate took a turn. At that time, King George IV of England died and Queen Victoria's uncle William IV succeeded him. Later, Victoria was raised as the heir of William IV. At that time, young Victoria was forced to receive a court education, and we all know that the royal family had a lot of red tape. Victoria was asked not to show her true feelings in front of outsiders at an early age, not to choose things according to her own ideas and so on. But it laid a solid foundation for the coming of the Victorian era in the future.

18 years old, Victoria became the Queen of England. At that time, British Prime Minister Benjamin strongly advocated foreign colonial expansion, and Queen Victoria supported his idea and became close friends with him. Although Britain had become a constitutional monarchy at that time, most of the power was in the British Parliament and * * *. However, the power of the Queen of England has not been weakened as it is now, and her title of queen still brings her many rights. She not only used the reputation of the Queen to make the domestic nation stable and United, but also supported the crazy colonial expansion overseas, defeated the Netherlands, which is known as the "sea coachman", and Spain, another maritime hegemon, and made the British colonies distributed all over the world and became an "empire".

Although Victoria is a "strong woman" politically. But for her own wedding, she also has romantic yearning. At that time, western girls wore wedding dresses, which we now call wedding dresses, and there was no uniform color regulation. But Queen Victoria chose the white wedding dress when she got married, because she thought the white wedding dress represented sincerity and purity.

Her practice attracted the British aristocrats at that time to imitate, not only because the white wedding dress symbolizes pure feelings, but also represents the noble status of the royal family, because the white wedding dress is easy to get dirty and difficult to clean. For ordinary civilians, wearing white wedding dresses is too expensive, and nobles can throw them away directly when they are dirty, which also illustrates the difference between them and civilians on the other hand. With the development of society, wearing a white wedding dress has gradually become a European tradition. Until now, when most girls in the world get married, they want to wear a white wedding dress and walk into the marriage hall.