Not many British queens have also serve as daring emergency rescuers . But when the moment arose , Queen Victoria was ready to save the day . In 1841 , she saved her husband , Prince Albert , from an icy lake he had lessen into while skating .
The incident didn’tneed muchdramatization when it was included in an episode of thePBS dramaVictoria . It really was a sprightliness - or - demise place , and 21 - year - old Victoria was the hero .
On a cold February sidereal day in 1841 , Victoria and Albert , who had married almost exactly a year in the beginning , went for a pass around the gardens of Buckingham Palace . Albert , an avid sportsman who loved to skate and play hockey game , strapped on his ice skate and headed out onto the lake . In adiary entry , Victoria wrote that the crank was smooth and toilsome that day — mostly . As he skate toward her , she noticed that the ice around a bridge looked a fiddling thin .
" I , standing alone on the bank , " she save in her journal that evening , " enounce , ‘ it is unsafe here , ' and no sooner had I tell this , than the ice cracked , and Albert was in the pee up to his oral sex , even for a moment below . " By her own singing , Victoria screamed and reached out her arm to him , holding onto her lady - in - waiting , the only attendant present .
Albert grabbed Victoria ’s arm and she was able to pull him to safety . He had cut his Kuki and was dripping loaded , but return home , took a spicy bathtub and a nap , and was up a few 60 minutes later to socialize when their uncleLeopold(Victoria and Albert were first cousin ) come to visit .
" Her Majesty demonstrate the not bad courage upon the occasion , and acted with the most intrepid coolness , " anaccountof the effect that appeared inThe Timesa few day by and by proclaimed . " As soon as the Prince was safe on dry land , the poof gave direction to the natural emotions of pleasure and appreciativeness at his providential outflow . "
Albertrecountedhis side of the experience in a letter to his step - grandma , Duchess Caroline of Saxe - Gotha - Altenburg . " I was make my room to Victoria , who was stand on the camber with one of her madam , " he described , when " I fall chubby into the water , and had to swim for two or three minutes so as to get out . Victoria was the only person with the bearing of intellect to lend me help , her lady being more occupied in screaming for help . " ( Both the faggot ’s diary entrance and the newspaper account give the madam - in - waiting a little more credit , suggesting that she at least do as an anchor for the queen regnant as she reached out to the prince . )
According toThe Times , the trouble was bird - related . That dawn , the groundkeeper in charge of the various waterfowl that call the lake family had broken the ice around the edges of the urine so that the birds could toast . By the time the queen and the prince arrived , those blot had freeze over with a deceptively sparse layer of ice .
Thanks to Victoria , though , Albert come forth from the incident with small more than a spoilt cold and went on to live for another 20 years .
Had Albert die that day on the internal-combustion engine , it could have completely changed European story . Victoria and Albert had already had a daughter , and the future King Edward VII was conceived around this time . If Albert had die , seven of Victoria ’s children would n’t have been born — children who were matrimonial to nobles and rulers across Europe ( during World War I , sevenof their verbatim descendants were on thrones as Rex or queen ) . And if the future Edward VII had n’t been conceived , Albert break down , and everything else remained the same , it’spossibleKaiser Wilhelm II may have become the rule of both Germany and the United Kingdom .
