Question about Queen Victoria?

Question

Apparently she was born Alexandria Victoria, but why did she use the name Victoria that everybody knows her as?

Answer 1

Queen Victoria was called Drina as a child and later was called Victoria. She was proclaimed queen as Alexandrina Victoria but chose to reign by the latter.

Answer 2

Queen Victoria.. born Alexandrina Victoria.. May 24th, 1819, died Jan 22nd 1901 as ''Queen Victoria''

Victoria acceded to the throne of England on 20 June 1837. She decided to reign as “Queen Victoria” and not as “Queen Alexandrina.” In her journal entry for that day, she wrote: “Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure, that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have” (St. Aubyn 57). She was crowned on 28 June 1838.

It was her personal Choice to rule under the name Queen Victoria ..her middle name.. If and when Prince Charles becomes King of Britain he declared already he will  not rule as Prince Charles.. (his full names are Charles Philip Arthur George) but he will be known as King George VII. His grandfather, the father of Queen Elizabeth and husband of the Queen mom...was born as Albert Frederick Arthur George but when his elder brother Edward abdicated from the throne to marry Wallis Simpson) Prince Charles Father did not rule by the name of Albert but adopted the name King George VI.. his father.. P;rince Charles's great-grandfather was King George V.  It is their personal choice...and maybe the choice of other members of the Royal family and political advisors...xx

Answer 3

Perhaps she didn't like Alexandria.  Many people use their middle name and until they die, neighbours, work colleagues etc don't have a clue they were called something else.

Answer 4

You'd have to consult a spiritalist to contact her and ask her that question, because only she would know.!

Answer 5

She was called Victoria since birth;her styling as a child was "Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent." The Queen could also have chosen any name that she wanted to be known by;it was just a matter of personal preference.

Answer 6

She was formally titled Princess Victoria and was better known as Victoria so used it as her Regnal title. A monarch can use any of their first names as their Regnal title but Victoria was the first to not use her first name (the second being George VI who's first name was Albert).

Answer 7

Her father, the Duke of Kent, wanted her to be named "Victoire Georgina Alexandrina Charlotte Augusta."

However, the Prince Regent, later George IV, vetoed this; he would not allow the names Georgina, Charlotte, or Augusta to be used. The Prince Regent told the Archbishop of Canterbury that she could be baptized Alexandrina and her middle name could be Victoria. Her mother preferred the name Victoria over Alexandrina, (one nickname was Vickelchen) and apparently Queen Victoria came to prefer it as well.