QUEEN VICTORIA (GREAT BRITAIN) - MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED 06/08/1844 CO-SIGNED BY: PRIME MINISTER EDWARD (14TH EARL OF DERBY) STANLEY (GREAT BRITAIN) - HFSID 174898

QUEEN VICTORIA
Military appointment signed by Queen Victoria in 1844
Document signed "Victoria Reg[ina]" as Queen of the United Kingdom and "Stanley" in brown ink. 1 page, 13¼x9¼, with one paper seal on left. Buckingham Palace, London, England. June 8, 1844. Military appointment for "Thomas Mitchell, Gentleman" to lieutenant in the 28th Regiment of Foot. Despite the impressive size of his own family, with the death of King George III, the crown passed through his children in quick succession, first to his eldest son George IV (1820-1830), than to his third son William IV (1830-1837), and eventually to one of his more unlikely heirs, his granddaughter by his fourth son, Princess Victoria. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and the Empress of India (1819-1901) ascended the throne at the young age of 18, beginning the longest reign in British history and ruling over a time soon to be known as the Victorian Era. This time period was remembered for its industrial, cultural, political, scientific and military change within the United Kingdom with massive growth of the British Empire. More of a national icon rather than a direct political power, Victoria's name was synonymous with strict standards of personal morality. Her great affection for her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, remains a renowned love story in her history; they had nine children together, all married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the nickname "Grandmother of Europe". Her reign lasted sixty-three years and seven months, and with her death so ended the House of Hanover in the British monarchy, and her legacy of her detailed correspondence and journals have displayed her previously unknown political straight-talking which was emotional, obstinate, and honest. STANLEY, Earl of Derby, served as British Prime Minister in 1852, from 1858 to1859 and from 1866 to1868. Lightly toned, soiled and creased. Folded in half horizontally and three times vertically. Otherwise in fine condition.