The TROUBLED Life OF Princess Helena | Queen Victorias Daughter
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Princess Helena of the United Kingdom 25 May 1846 later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Helena was educated by private tutors chosen by her father and his close friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar.
Her childhood was spent with her parents, travelling between a variety of royal residences in Britain.
Helena began a flirtation with Prince Albert's German librarian, Carl Ruland.
Although the nature of the relationship is largely unknown, Helena's romantic letters to Ruland survive. After her mother discovered the flirtations, in 1863, she dismissed Ruland, who returned to his native Germany.
Three years later, on 5 July 1866, Helena married the impoverished Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. The couple remained in Britain, in calling distance of the queen, who liked to have her daughters nearby.
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Queen Victoria was so selfish, making such a parade of her grief for decades, and forcing her adult children to wait on her hand and foot, while keeping them in the deepest mourning. For a month, that’s fine, but to expect her daughters and their husbands to take care of her like that for life! I hope they eventually broke away and led their own lives. She should have got paid employees to do all that, even paid companions were common then.
Yes indeed!!! The way "The Queen" treated her children and how she would tell them what she didn't like about them was just terrible!! I watched the documentaries on when her diaries were read( what a few of her daughters didn't destroy!) But it came down to ie; a daughter writes her mother and tells her mother her problems,( like many children do...) And Victoria would fire back with " well what about ME?!?! Me me me... Your father died and I'm without him, blah blah blah and Blah!!!!it's a miracle they didn't turn out to be criminals and drug addicts!!! & Whatever else you can think of!!! World's worst mother!!! I really do feel so sorry for the children and all Victoria did was feel sorry for herself!!! I lost my husband and he truly was the love of my life! But I'd never act like she did!!! What a crazy person!! And that's who was England's Queen??!!! I'll never understand the basis of how their monarch is chosen, well no choosing at all !!! It's because of blood? No way! But that's another story!!!
Seems that way, doesn’t it
Very true. I recall reading that one of Queen Victoria's daughters lost a child. Victoria very cruelly said to her Oh big deal, a child's death is nothing I lost a husband! (Not her exact words precisely, but you can see everything was about her) she didn't like children yet had 9. I expect these days with contraception she would have only had 2 or 3
She was a right twat!
Yes! Queen Victoria was genuinely toxic.
Yikes... Victoria was the original toxic, controlling, narcissistic mother. No wonder Helena had addiction problems, I'd want to escape that reality too.
Let's be honest. The only reason Albert married Victoria was because of her money and title. A handsome man like Albert played the loving, doting husband until he died, all the while, saddling her with more and more kids, taking the actual reins of government into his own hands. He gaslight Victoria mentally until she couldn't make a simple decision without consulting Albert. After Albert's death she carried over a habit from her single days depending on men for everything. Victoria used everything and everybody including her own children. In reality, she resembled an ugly toad. I can imagine her sitting on a lily pad in a pond croaking "RIBBIT--RIBBIT"
what a stpd assertion! Albert did love Victoria because they both from the same broken family with no one to trust! Albert life was as much controlled as Victoria.
he had grand vision and by marrying Victoria, they become literally 1 family anything he or she did reflect badly on both of them! so he did lead successfully and he was the reason why Victoria was so celebrated despite if you think about her she did almost nothing! they understood this eventually it's not even about power.... it's about creating a better world for THEIR children.
played? he was! he is more normal unlike mentally unstable Victoria who hated her own children but also super emotional when they leave because she depended on their admiration for her.
while Albert wanted his children to have a life he never had, a loving parents or at least father he never had...
He definitely did want the reigns! Mentally unstable or not, she managed to stay Sovereign for so many years because she was beloved! PERIOD. Albert most assuredly provoked her regularly.
SHE WAS A LOUSY MOTHER & DAUGHTER in the end as well.
@@laughingrightback no Albert did you nuts hag! we literally have Victoria's diary! and she wrote that she left everything to Albert to manage etc as he is more capable and smarter etc
Helena inherited her artistic talent from Victoria. Victoria drew sketches of all the children and pets. There was a bit of a scandal when Albert decided to have Victoria’s sketches made into a book as gift for Victoria. Someone at the book binding/publishing company leaked the sketches of domestic sketches ti the press. The Queen was horrified to have private moments of domestic life made public. A lawsuit ensued. What was meant to be a sentimental gift turned into a public embarrassment for the Queen.
Queen Victoria was a terrible mother. Prince Albert was better as a father, but neither of them were very interested in their offspring as individuals. They wanted carbon copies of themselves. Victoria had a real aversion to children, especially children who weren’t pretty by her standards. She particularly disliked Bertie, her eldest son, because of his large eyes and small chin. She wanted him to be like his father. What she would never acknowledge is that he physically resembled her, and like her most of his behaviour was Hanoverian. Later she blamed Bertie for his father’s death. Victoria was just 42 when Albert died in 1861. I think most people would sympathise with her to a point, but she carried on her mourning, and that of the entire royal household, for years. She used her grief to control the lives of her children even more. Some would probably say that when she said she would have rather lost one of the children than her husband she was being brutally honest, but I think the words come from a woman who was selfish and utterly determined to be the focus of attention. Victoria literally did think everything was about her. I don’t think it crossed her mind for a moment that her children were grieving too. Her youngest daughter Beatrice was just 4 when her father died. The youngest son, Leopold, was 8. Leopold was a haemophiliac and this was something else his mother could use to assert her control, until he asserted himself and insisted on being allowed to go to university. Some people would put down Victoria’s terrible parenting down to her own ‘terrible childhood’, but though the Kensington System she lived under thanks to Sir John Conroy and her mother was restrictive, it wasn’t so restrictive that she was unable to go to the opera twice a week. In my view the myth of her difficult childhood only grew up when she had her own children and needed something to draw attention back to her. She was awful.
You've just chosen to focus on her negative qualities which she did indeed have (and admitted most of them), but she had some very positive ones also. Not a very balanced picture at all.
At 3.20 that is not Helena and her sisters, but Vicky’s three youngest daughters: Vicky (Moretta), Sophie and Mossy.
She started a school for the daughters of soldiers and Minister s too. Princess Helena s school is going I think
It’s amazing that it didn’t occur to a woman as plain and unattractive as Victoria was, that some of her children might naturally inherit that homeliness. Not one of her daughters was as unattractive as she was (they all got at least some decent looks genes from their handsome father) but Victoria’s squattness and bulging eyes were a very powerful genetic legacy. Louise was the only truly beautiful one of the 5 princesses. Same thing happened a generation later when the breathtakingly beautiful Danish Princess Alexandra had 3 daughters who all had the bulging eyes of her husband Edward VII.
Great video, well researched. Queen Victoria was quite cruel to her children!
Poor lady, the opium dose should have just been gradually reduced, it was cruel to make her go through severe withdrawal, I’ve heard it’s very terrible. I wonder if that’s what’s really behind the addiction, it’s not that they want the drug as much as they’re terrified of withdrawal?
I agree with you, as I have been through a horrible time withdrawing from the opium based pain medication I was given from my doctor after I had a serious surgery on my back( left lower lumbar) I have bone degenerative disease, where the padding between your bones gets worn away.. if my doctor and Surgeon hadn't shown me the exray , I wouldn't have gotten the surgery! But at the time I was 40 yrs old and I just couldn't picture my "active" self bound to a wheelchair! ( This was due to my second work injury about 10 years between the first) so as for the addiction... I was sick of the ball and chain of the pain medication, so as to what you said about how 'is it the fear of withdrawal to get off of the medication or just going without it... well it's both! A person in a situation like this is best served by a support group that's been through this. And nowadays there's plenty of treatment centers that take insurance, so that's the best way to get the proverbial monkey off your back! But back then, there were none of these places to help,,,all doctors did back then was fill you full of more drugs. . truely horrible!! Love and support 💖 and some drugs that aren't addictive to help with the pain,that are available today's absolutely the way to go!! I ended up being a drug and alcohol counselor 👍😊🌾🌵🍄🍀🌷🌹love from New Mexico,U.S.🇺🇲♥️💯♥️💙🏨🏝️🏥🎉♥️💙♥️💙♥️💙♥️💙
I agree. Reduce the dose slowly!
I am guessing they probably did. Opium addiction was well known by this times, as well as the effects of withdrawal. Not only might she have convulsed and died, but she may not have been functional for a very long time. It IS possible that she went "cold turkey", but...
Good story teller
In 6:00 that is not Princess Helena but her daughter Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Helena was beautiful!
At the 3:03 mark, you've placed a picture of the Prussian princesses--her sister Vicky's daughters.. Otherwise, excellent job.
So she had a family of a lot of jerks, led by her self-centred mother, a nice father, who died, was sad, disappointed, and lost a lot of people. It's called life, except with also being a princess. Well researched, thank you. I just am not torn up. Lol
The photograph proves the lies of the drawings and other pictures we saw first. I had become quite convinced of her beauty and couldn't understand the difficulty in getting her suitably married. I read Kimberly P's comment above. I am intrigued. After reading of the grandson's treatment, in Germany, (and the awful fool he became), I wondered at Victoria, and the other women in the family. My interest in History had not yet brought me here. Thanks for the upload!
Edit: there are some beautiful photos of her. It truly is a matter of angle and lighting...
I don't think her trouble getting married had to do with her looks. In the video, she says no one wanted to live in the same castle as her mother, which was a condition her mother demanded and her mother broke her up from the man she loved and loved her.
No background music, please.
Beautiful always. Hero.
I think a lot of people have judged Queen Victoria harshly in her own lifetime she suffered the loss of her own two children she also suffered from the prolapse of the uterus which of course is terribly painful and at a time when medicine was in it's infancy she was a very lonely and depressed woman after the loss of Prince Albert and I suppose she wanted at least one of her daughter's near her even if that meant the husband as well I guess the palaces were large enough to accommodate a number of families
9 children. She also had porphyria and took opiates to ease her pain, which is the worse thing to take.
I don't think Helena had porphyria.
@Renee Bloggs ...sorry, comment wasn't about Helena she didn't have 9 kids. She had 4 who lived to adulthood..she lost a baby and then had a little boy called Harald, who lived for a few days She had what would be post natal depression and had no.counselling or prescribed medication. Very sad. However, her marriage was very happy.
Based on these photos she looks like quewn Victoria and yet the queen said Helena was ugly lol
_Before I get this comment started I want to say up front that what I'm about to say is NOT to garner myself sympathy or comments personally. I just want people to understand that a lot of us have terrible problems due to the royal family's centuries of inbreeding. Personally, my sister and I are doing well and have benefitted greatly from (though far from perfect) modern medical treatment._
I have great sympathy for Helena. Personally I suspect she suffered from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Lupus (at least). Why do I think that? I'm related via one of George the 4th's bastard lines, and despite nearly 250 years of outbreeding I suffer from these as well as MS. My sister has Polycythemia Vera (the dreaded thick blood), and both of us carry a single porphyria gene, and genes for ankylosing spondylitis, Tourette's syndrome, AND schizophrenia. We also have a terrible tendency to gain weight due to metabolic syndrome. Basically our small intestines are too smooth and they simply don't absorb enough nutrients, making our cells think they're constantly starving, so they take anything they can store and store it. I can go without eating for a week and if I'm lucky I will lose 1 pound. I suspect Helena did as well. Misscarriages and stillbirths are unfortunately very common for women with EDS, a fact I am all too familiar with. Queen Victoria's overt narcissism and selfishness must have been a horrible burden upon her children, especially Helena, whom she intended to keep around as a forced friend, something no parent should *EVER* do whether they're the bloody Queen or not. It doesn't surprise me that Helena sought out opium to ease her pain, both physical and mental.
Do I believe her status and relation to me makes her suffering special? No, not at all. Pain is not the contest people like Queen Victoria tried to make it out to be. I bring these things up only as a way to further understanding. Through understanding Helena's (suspected) struggles I only hope to further the reality that we are more alike than we are different, all of us. While money and status certainly helped Helena it didn't spare her from suffering either and in the end she was human too.
_Well, thank you for coming to my TED talk on why inbreeding is not a great idea..._
Suggestion: What was Queen Victoria take of the average British women concerning marriage, children, women working. If a woman unfortunately gets pregnant. Foreigners in her country. Orphan children. Under age child labors. Current STD of the day? Did Queen Victoria even know what was going on outside her window?
Helen-a not Hel-eena
DRUG addiction and pregnancy are not complementary.
A 5:55
Not hard faced, haughty, there is a difference
😂🤣😂😂real story
Well that’s 2 pronunciations of Helena being the correct one not Heleena. I’m sure other mothers were just like Victoria but because she was in the public eye we find out more. I know my mum was like that and she was born in 1941, her parents were Edwardian so that also shaped how she was brought up.
Your voice is boring with no inclination I know you are reading off a script
Thank you 😊
Lol...you make no sense. Meaningless disjointed ramblings.
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