Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 20 ga Yuni, 1837, Victoria ta zama Sarauniyar Ingila a kan mutuwar kawunta, William IV, makonni kadan bayan ya kai shekaru goma sha takwas. Gwamnatinta ta jagoranci firaministan Whig Lord Melbourne, wanda ta kasance kusa da shi. Amma a cikin shekaru biyu ya yi murabus, kuma dan siyasar Tory Sir Robert Peel ya yi kokarin kafa sabuwar ma'aikatar. Peel ya ce yana shirye ya zama firaminista idan Sarauniyar ta maye gurbin mata masu jiran Whig tare da Tory. Ta ƙi kuma ta sake nada Lord Melbourne, shawarar da aka soki a matsayin rashin bin tsarin mulki. Ta kai a kai rubuta abubuwan da suka faru na tawaye a Upper
da Lower Canada kamar yadda wadannan suka tunatar da ita game da juyin juya halin Amurka, wanda ya faru a lokacin mulkin kakanta Sarki George III. London ta aika da Lord Durham don warware batun kuma rahotonsa na 1839 ya buɗe hanya don "gwamnati mai alhakin" (wato, mulkin kai).