Starter quiz
- How did Victoria describe her cousin Albert?
- scruffy
- boring
- handsome ✓
- kind
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- Albert was Victoria’s…
- brother
- cousin ✓
- uncle
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- In 1839, Victoria asked Prince Albert to ______ her.
- 'marry' ✓
- Albert was a prince from....
- France
- Spain
- England
- Germany ✓
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- When Victoria met Albert, she was….
- 7
- 17 ✓
- 27
- 37
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- What did Victoria think of her wedding day?
- It was a very boring day.
- It was a very long day.
- It was a very happy day. ✓
- It was a very sad day.
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Exit quiz
- What word did Queen Victoria use to describe babies?
- small
- cute
- ugly ✓
- loud
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- How many babies did Queen Victoria have?
- '9' ✓
- Victoria and Albert’s first baby was a boy.
- True
- False ✓
- Victoria and Albert named their first baby….
- 'Victoria' ✓
- Queen Victoria used a special new medical invention called chloroform when she had her…
- 1st and 2nd babies
- 4th and 5th babies
- 8th and 9th babies ✓
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- A doctor that helped Queen Victoria was called Dr John…
- Ice
- Rain
- Sun
- Snow ✓
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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.
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.
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
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