Off-topic: Queen Victoria's Journals

For Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee, Queen Victoria's journals have become available online through the Royal Archives. You can view them for free for a short time (I'm not sure how long) and if you have a  couple of spare hours, I recommend a viewing. They can be found here.

South Australia was founded just before the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. The first British settlers of South Australia arrived in late 1836 and Queen Victoria ascended to the throne in June 1837.
Adelaide was named after her aunt, Queen Adelaide (Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - like most of Queen Victoria's family, she was German), and King William Street was named after the reigning monarch at the time, Queen Victoria's uncle, King William IV. Victoria Square was named when she was still Princess Victoria. **Did you know: the streets in Adelaide change names when they hit King William Street because they were all named after commoners and a commoner cannot cross the path a monarch. So Currie Street becomes Grenfell Street, Hindley becomes Rundle etc. I can only guess that Victoria Square is in the centre because she and King William were both royal.**

King William IV had a mistress, Dorothea Jordan, with whom he had ten children, but none of them could be king or queen as they were illegitimate. Just imagine if he had married his mistress, Adelaide could have been called 'Dorothea'!! Dorothea, South Australia just doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?