Did Queen Victoria of Great Britain Speak English with a German Accent? Did she ever visit Germany?
Raised by her governess, Baroness Louise Lehzen, from Hanover, Victoria was taught only German until she was three years old. She was subsequently taught French and English as well, and became virtually trilingual. Her mother spoke German with her. Her command of English, although good, was not perfect. Victoria maintained a close relationship with Baroness Lehzen for much of her life. She did it, to have control over Europe, wasn’t just Germans, there was a Russians marraiges and Danish Marraige too. I’m sure there were others. Victoria, who was of almost entirely German descent, was the daughter of Prince Edward Augustus Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and granddaughter of George III and the niece of her predecessor William IV. She arranged marriages for her nine children and forty-two grandchildren across the continent, tying Europe together; this earned her the nickname “the grandmother of Europe”. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover
