She proposed to her husband Prince Albert and not vice versa

Victoria first met her future husband, Prince Albert of SaxeCoburgGotha, when she was 16. He was her first cousin, the son of her mothers brother; their mutual uncle, the ambitious Leopold, engineered the meeting with the idea that the two should marry. Victoria enjoyed Alberts company from the beginning, and with Leopolds encouragement she proposed to Albert (as she was the queen, he could not propose to her) on October 15, 1839, five days after he arrived at Windsor on a trip to the English court. They were married the following year. Their marriage was passionate she wrote in her diary that Without him everything loses its interest and produced nine children. On the other hand, Victoria was notoriously disenchanted by pregnancy and childbirth, calling it the shadowside of marriage.