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0:00Hello, my friend. It's good to see you
0:02again.
0:03Welcome to another moment of peace.
0:06I'm glad we are here together.
0:09Imagine a light that never goes out.
0:13A quiet, steady light.
0:16A light that shines through cold
0:18winters,
0:19through long, difficult years,
0:21through sadness and great change.
0:25Today, we follow that light.
0:28Today, we listen to the story of Queen
0:31Victoria,
0:33a young woman who became one of the most
0:35powerful people in all of history.
0:39Her story is a journey of discovery, of
0:42love,
0:43of loss,
0:45and of quiet, extraordinary strength.
0:49It is a story worth knowing.
0:52This is Storyline English.
0:55Sit quietly.
0:57Breathe slowly.
0:59And let the story begin.
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1:22Thank you.
1:24And now, the story.
1:27The year is 1819.
1:30The place is London, England.
1:33England is a powerful country.
1:36It has a great king, many soldiers, and
1:40large ships that sail across the whole
1:42world.
1:44But inside a quiet room in a large house
1:47called Kensington Palace, something very
1:51small and very important is happening.
1:55A baby girl is born.
1:58Her name is Alexandrina Victoria.
2:02But everyone will call her Victoria.
2:06She is small.
2:08She is quiet.
2:10She does not know it yet, but one day
2:12this small girl will become the queen of
2:16England.
2:17She will rule for 63 years,
2:21longer than almost any other king or
2:23queen in English history.
2:27Her story begins here,
2:29in that quiet room, in that great city,
2:33on a cold spring morning.
2:36And what a story it is.
2:40Victoria's father is Prince Edward.
2:43Her mother is Princess Victoria of
2:46Saxe-Coburg.
2:48They love their daughter very much,
2:51but life is not always kind.
2:54When Victoria is only 8 months old, her
2:57father becomes very ill.
3:00He does not get better.
3:03He dies.
3:05Victoria is now a small baby without a
3:08father.
3:10Her mother is alone in a large, cold
3:13palace
3:15with a very young child.
3:18Life will not be simple for this little
3:20girl.
3:21But something inside her is already
3:24strong,
3:25something quiet and steady,
3:28like a light that is just beginning to
3:31burn.
3:33Victoria grows up inside Kensington
3:36Palace.
3:37It is a big and beautiful building,
3:40but for a young child, it can feel cold
3:44and very empty.
3:46Victoria does not go to school with
3:48other children.
3:50She does not play freely outside.
3:53She does not have many friends.
3:55She lives under very strict rules.
4:00Her mother and a man named Sir John
4:02Conroy make all the decisions about her
4:05life.
4:06They do not want Victoria to speak with
4:09people alone.
4:11They watch her every moment.
4:13They control her every day.
4:17This system even has a name.
4:20People call it the Kensington system.
4:23And Victoria does not like it at all.
4:28She is lonely.
4:29She is quiet.
4:32But she is also very clever.
4:35She reads many books.
4:37She learns French, German, and Italian.
4:41She draws beautiful pictures.
4:44And she writes in her diary every single
4:47day.
4:49That diary tells us many things about
4:52her feelings.
4:53And one thing is very clear.
4:57Victoria wants to be free.
5:01She wants to make her own choices.
5:04She wants to live her own life.
5:08In those early years, she has one true
5:11and loyal friend. A small dog, a spaniel
5:16named Dash.
5:18Dash does not judge her.
5:21Dash does not control her.
5:24Dash simply stays quietly by her side.
5:28And sometimes, in a lonely life, that is
5:32enough.
5:34But Victoria's world is about to change.
5:39The old king of England, King William
5:41the Fourth, is getting older and weaker.
5:45And Victoria is his closest relative.
5:49Everyone in England knows what this
5:52means.
5:53Very soon, this lonely young woman will
5:57become queen.
5:59But is she ready for that journey?
6:03On the morning of June the 20th, 1837,
6:06Victoria is sleeping.
6:09She is only 18 years old. She is still a
6:12young woman.
6:13She does not know what this morning will
6:15bring.
6:17But then, very early,
6:19there is a knock at her door.
6:22Two men arrive.
6:24They bow their heads,
6:25and they tell her the news.
6:28King William IV is dead.
6:31Victoria is now the Queen of England.
6:36She listens.
6:37She is calm.
6:39She does not cry.
6:41She sits tall and still.
6:44She says only four words.
6:47"I will be good."
6:50Four small words,
6:52quiet and strong.
6:54And those four words say everything
6:57about her character.
6:59That same day, Victoria holds her first
7:02meeting with her royal advisers.
7:05These are older men, serious,
7:07experienced men.
7:09They expect a nervous young girl.
7:12But Victoria surprises them.
7:15She sits at the head of the table.
7:17She speaks clearly.
7:19She listens carefully.
7:21She makes decisions with real
7:23confidence.
7:25The men are amazed.
7:27This is not a nervous girl.
7:30This
7:31is a queen.
7:33Victoria moves out of Kensington Palace.
7:36She moves to Buckingham Palace.
7:39For the first time in her life, she has
7:42her own room.
7:44She makes her own schedule.
7:46She feels, for the first time,
7:49truly free.
7:51The Kensington system is over.
7:54A new adventure is beginning.
7:57And the whole world is watching this
7:59young woman take her first steps into
8:03history.
8:05A queen needs many things. She needs
8:08wisdom.
8:09She needs strength.
8:11She needs good advisers.
8:14But Victoria also needs something more
8:16personal.
8:18She needs a partner.
8:20Someone to stand quietly beside her.
8:23Someone to truly understand her.
8:27In 1839,
8:29a young man comes to visit her at the
8:31palace.
8:32His name is Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg
8:35and Gotha.
8:37He is Victoria's cousin.
8:39He is tall, quiet, and thoughtful.
8:43He loves music, science, and art.
8:46He is kind.
8:48He is serious.
8:50He is not like the loud and easy men of
8:52the royal court.
8:54Victoria sees Albert,
8:57and she feels something she has never
8:59felt before.
9:00That night, she opens her diary.
9:04She writes that Albert is wonderful,
9:07that his eyes are full of intelligence,
9:10that she feels happy and free when she
9:12is near him.
9:14In those days, a queen must ask first. A
9:18queen cannot wait.
9:21And so, Victoria asks Albert to marry
9:24her.
9:25He says yes.
9:27They are married on February the 10th,
9:291840.
9:31Victoria wears a white dress.
9:34At At
9:35most brides wear colored dresses.
9:38But Victoria chooses white.
9:41And after that day, white becomes the
9:44color of weddings across the whole
9:46world, even today.
9:49Together, Victoria and Albert are a
9:52strong team.
9:54He becomes her closest advisor, her
9:56greatest support,
9:58her best friend.
10:00They have nine children together.
10:03For many years, Victoria is not just a
10:06queen.
10:07She is a wife, a mother,
10:09and a woman who is deeply, truly happy.
10:14But happiness, as we all know, does not
10:17stay forever.
10:19In December of 1861,
10:22Prince Albert becomes very ill.
10:25He is only 42 years old.
10:28He is not old.
10:30He is not weak.
10:32But he grows sicker every day.
10:35Victoria sits by his side. She holds his
10:38hand.
10:39She watches him carefully.
10:42And on December the 14th,
10:44Albert dies.
10:47Victoria is broken.
10:49She cannot speak.
10:51She cannot eat properly.
10:53She cannot sleep.
10:55The whole country feels her deep
10:57sadness.
10:59Albert was not just her husband.
11:02He was the center of her world.
11:05Without him,
11:06everything feels cold and very dark.
11:11For many years after, Victoria wears
11:14only black.
11:15She keeps Albert's photograph everywhere
11:18in the palace.
11:19She sleeps with a cast of his hand
11:21beside her.
11:23She orders his clothes to be laid out
11:25every morning,
11:27as if he is still there.
11:30People begin to call her the Widow of
11:32Windsor.
11:33Some worry that the Queen is lost inside
11:36her grief.
11:38But time is patient.
11:41And life continues moving forward.
11:44Slowly, Victoria begins to return.
11:48She has a country to lead. She has
11:51children who need her.
11:53She has important work still left to do.
11:57She does not forget Albert. She never
12:00forgets him.
12:02But she learns to carry his memory
12:04gently,
12:06like something precious and dear.
12:09And she continues
12:11step by step,
12:13day by day.
12:15Perhaps this is her greatest act of
12:18courage.
12:20Not her power,
12:21not her crown,
12:23but simply
12:25continuing.
12:26Victoria rules England for 63 years.
12:30During her reign, that is the word for a
12:33monarch's time in power,
12:35England grows stronger and larger than
12:38ever before.
12:40This period in history has a name.
12:43People call it the Victorian era.
12:46It is a time of great invention, great
12:49discovery, and great stories.
12:53During her life, Victoria sees the
12:55invention of the train, the telephone,
12:58and the first electric lights.
13:00She sees her empire grow across the
13:03world.
13:04In 1876,
13:06she becomes the Empress of India.
13:09She is the grandmother of many kings and
13:12queens across Europe.
13:14People truly call her the grandmother of
13:17Europe.
13:18She is small in body. She is quiet in
13:22voice.
13:23But she is enormous in history.
13:27Victoria dies on January the 22nd, 1901.
13:32She is 81 years old.
13:34She has lived a full and extraordinary
13:37life.
13:38She began as a lonely child in a cold
13:41palace.
13:42She became a confident and powerful
13:45queen.
13:46She loved deeply
13:48and she lost deeply.
13:50She suffered
13:52and she continued.
13:54She never stopped moving forward. And
13:56when she died, the whole world stopped
13:59to remember her.
14:01Her story teaches us something important
14:04and true.
14:05Life is not always easy.
14:08Sadness will come.
14:10Loss will come.
14:12Change will come.
14:14But if we stay steady,
14:16if we keep our light burning, even
14:18quietly, even slowly,
14:21we can do something great.
14:24We can become someone worth remembering.
14:28You are learning English right now.
14:31That is your own quiet courage.
14:34Every word you listen to, every story
14:37you follow, every moment you stay and
14:40keep going.
14:42That is your light.
14:45Please keep it burning, my friend.
14:48Thank you for being here today.
14:50If this story touched you, if it helped
14:53your English or gave you a moment of
14:55peace,
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15:19Until then,
15:20keep listening,
15:22keep learning,
15:23and keep going.

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