Before I came to Australia, my impression of Melbourne was just to stay with Anthony for a long time. Anthony and his bunny say Melbourne has the bluest sky and the most beautiful sea.
Later, I found that Melbourne is more than that, she is a charming background of the art city.
The sad love behind Bourke St and Elizabeth St, named after missing his wife, is the city of Amphlett Lane, which records many love stories.
There is, of course, a love story behind Melbourne's name.
Melbourne name change
In the beginning, Melbourne actually had many other names, such as Bearbrass,Batmania.
In 1835, a farmer from Tasmania accidentally discovered the beautiful city of Melbourne. His name was John Batman..
Batman boarded Melbourne from Port Philip and unearthed much of Melbourne, and in honor of the first person to discover a new mainland, the city was considered Batmania..
Just because Batman was the first person to find Melbourne, he also slaughtered the indigenous people there, so the idea of naming the city after him was abandoned.
Later, Melbourne was proposed to be named Bearbrass.. In Australian slang, Bearbrass means the Fog River. It was only two years after the dream name was replaced by Melbourne.
The love story behind Melbourne
The final name of Melbourne was named in 1837 by Queen Victoria of England in honor of the then Prime Minister. Do not hesitate to name a city by his name, because the Queen is in love with him.
Born in 1819, Queen Victoria was born in 1819, and her parents gave her great hopes for her future to the throne, so she was very careful to name her. In honor of Alexandria I and Victoria's mother, she was eventually named Alexandrina Victoria..
Queen Victoria and husband Prince Albert
Victoria has been popular with his parents since he was born, but his childhood experience has been tortuous. When she was only eight months old, her father, Prince Edward, died of pneumonia.
The death of his father dealt a heavy blow to the family, without which the burden of life fell on Victoria and his mother. Since then, her mother and her life have become thrifty, so Victoria grew up with the idea of thrift.
Until the age of 11, Victoria had never known that he had a successor to the throne, but only that he had to live with his mother. In her 11-year-old year, she began to learn royal rules and etiquette like other royal aristocracy, and little Victoria gradually realized that she would enjoy the same prosperity as other aristocrats in the future. It was from this time, too, that her mother began to teach her harshly.
Without a father, the mother could only rest all her hopes on the little girl. So the 11-year-old Victoria had to be bound by royal rules.
It is cruel for an 11-year-old child to eat without laughing, having extra preferences, not going out with friends in private, eating and resting according to the rules and regulations, all of which are cruel to an 11-year-old child.
Queen Victoria ascended
When Victoria turned 18 in 1837, when King William IV died, Victoria's mother finally took her youngest daughter to the throne. The young queen, who had just ascended to the throne, needed the assistance of the right king and minister. Lord Melbourne, the prime minister, was qualified to assist the Queen, who was nearly 50 years old and, to the Queen, a fatherly presence.
Lord Melbourne.
The new queen is bound to be attacked by the regime, and the young queen is plagued by partisan strife. Lord Melbourne, the prime minister, patiently taught her to pass on all his life's political experience to Victoria. over four years.
To Victoria, Lord Melbourne is more like a father than a friend. Like a monarch, but more like a lover.
Lord Melbourne is her knight, her harbor, who can resolve her party disputes outside and help her cope with her troubles.
It may be that childhood was too lonely and boring, that it was under the control of the mother, or that the care of the father was lost as a child, and that Victoria became dependent on Lord Melbourne.
Victoria and Lord in the British play "Victoria"
Victoria once wrote in her diary, "he is the most positive, honest, great man I've ever seen. It's my luckiest thing to have him in charge of government.
But Lord Melbourne and her age were quite different from each other, and it was impossible to get together in any way at that time. At a young age, the Queen may not understand that there are things that change cannot do. Lord Melbourne, however, understood that he could only turn down Victoria's wishes and abide by his duty as a monarch.
Victoria and Lord in the British play "Victoria"
After four years with Vitoria, Lord Melbourne finally dropped his title and quietly removed leave from Victoria. It was just that Victoria still trusted him and would always write to him about his recent troubles and concerns.
1840 Queen Victoria in White Yarn
When the British gave the beautiful land of Melbourne to the Queen, Victoria still missed the Lord, she ordered the city to be named Melbourne after the Lord's title and, later, the capital of Victoria.
Victoria and capital Melbourne, like Lord Victoria and Melbourne, are different classes and destined not to be together.
In that case, let Australia always remember their story.