Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
That the royal ladies of history are made of at least as much mettle as their male counterparts shouldn’t come as a surprise, but did you know that Queen Victoria once saved her husband Prince Albert’s life (and changed the course of history in the process)?
It’s true!
In 1841, the couple had been married only a year. They were out for a walk around the Buckingham Palace grounds when Albert decided (as one does, I guess) to strap on his ice skates and take a turn around the frozen lake. Though Victoria noted in her diary entry on the event that the ice mostly seemed smooth and hard, as her new husband skated toward her, she noticed the ice around the bridge looked too thin to hold his weight.
“I, standing alone on the bank, said ‘it is unsafe here,’ and no sooner had I said this, than the ice cracked, and Albert was in the water up to his head, even for a moment below.”
The only people present were Victoria and her lady-in-waiting, both of whom screamed at the sight. Then Victoria instinctively offered her arm to Albert…
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