As a child of abuse just because you have a happy memory with your family DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAD A GOOD CHILDHOOD. I like using the analogy my friend told me: if someone is horrible to you all the time and nice to you rarely, it does not make them a nice person. The same can be said about childhoods. Never let someone tell you your childhood wasn't that bad because you had some fond memories in it. Nobody but you experienced it and dont let someone tell you different! ):
Well said, I totally agree with you. I had an abusive childhood and you can't have somebody being good and bad to you simultaneously. If they're being bad to you, then they are out and out bad. Any seemingly good deeds, however rare, do not discount the bad. If bad deeds are done, then these abusers have chosen to be bad. They cannot say that they've done any good to you.
@@adamsmaxwell9927 I am from a rural area in the Deep South. As you could imagine we have wide open spaces in which to walk and get fresh air. There are a few families in our community that has had the bug as well as my aunt and her family. So, we have been affected by it but nothing like those who live in the city or bigger towns. I still haven't gotten the jab even though I intend to. But thank you for so kindly asking. I live with my elderly mother and we are both doing well. But this South Carolina heat and humidity keeps us inside with the AC 22 out of 24 hours most days. It's unbearable most days. How are you and where are you from?
@@rebeccagilstrap3507 I really can’t wait for the world to be normal again, Are you on WhatsApp? so I can give you my contact info so we can talk more better there
@@rebeccagilstrap3507 Have you gotten "the jab" yet? Has anyone else in your family gotten COVID? P.S. These men trying to pick women up through UA-cam are very strange
Victoria DID love her children an awful lot. She had a difficult time to coope with post-natal depression and despised pregnancy, true, and it's also true she didn't like babies. But it's not true that she was jealous of her children in the way that she hated them. Victoria wasn't a true mother-bird baby-cuddler but she always wanted what was best for her children. If you read her diaries, you'll see how she prays for them and notices their individual personalities.
This is true each year that passed after my mom died I would feel guilty thinking of how I could have handled the situation with her differently. Continuously questioning myself and my behavior and almost forgetting the beatings and name-calling.maybe if I would have acted differently she wouldn't have treated me that way and almost forgetting I acted that way trying to fight off the physical and verbal abuse. When I was about 50 and she was talking about what a bad child I was I asked her mom what did I do that was so bad? And she said you kept running away. I ran away because of the beatings.
I agree...cuz I understand the difference tween a broken psychology dominant spouse & a non-broken headspace individual.....everything I here of pans out....
@@pamelaevm880 lady, your mother was empathy-deficient headspace.... like yourself I’m a non-broken psychology peep 👀.....look 🆙 Cluster B psychology & the magnetic 🧲 syndrome.....PLEEEEEEEAAASSEEE....please......
@@luckyluckyloulou6100 thank you. Because of your comment I reread what I wrote. I'm kind of surprised at myself that I went backwards after achieving so much and not blaming myself for how she was. And thank you for the suggestion I'll try to find it and look it up.
@@pamelaevm880 set yourself free. You wee a CHILD, THERE wàs noway for YOU to know! Aas a parent SHE WAS THE ADULT, SHE HAD THE RESOURSES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO USE THEM. BUT DIDN'T. I LOVED MY OWN MOTHER. I JUST DIDN'T *LIKE* HER VERY MUCH. SHE WAS A DRUNK.THAT WASNT *MY*PROBLEM TO FIX, IT TOOK ME DECADES AFTER HER DESTH TO FINALLY COME TO TERMS WITH THAT. BUT I DID KNOW, IMMEDIATELY, THST SLTHOUGH DHE WAS A LOVING GRANDMOTHER, HAD MY CHILDREN BEEN in her car with her, they'd have died with her. THAT would have ruined me. Even my children weren't enough to interfere with her drinking.
I'm not a Brit but I've always loved reading journals and letters from the past. We get so much more detailed information about how things looked and felt like in the past no matter if they were royalty or a common person.
Yes same here. I saw DVD on the Georgians where Britain have many old journals about what people wrote about their private lives in the centuries past. Very interesting.
I wonder if it's because they didn't have a social media platforms that we all have now that they were so detailed and so consistent about journaling cuz in a hundred years or something no one's going to have our Twitter to read and any of our social media feeds and they're even though they're really detailed like what we're eating or what we're doing I think that the journaling part of it it's more eloquent
Not really keen to the fact that he assumes what Queen Victoria’s childhood was like. She herself said that her childhood was unhappy; who is he to say otherwise?
Passive Intolerance Frankly it doesn't matter who Andrew is. Victoria herself declared her childhood unhappy. He is not trained in psychology, and therefore should not be qualified to judge someone's thoughts and feelings when it contradicts what they say, so why should he be able to discern Victoria's own words?
Can they control the ads better? I don't have a problem with ads but do they have to be inserted in the middle of a sentence usually cutting off a word. There's plenty of pause points in the video to insert an ad without being so abrupt.
to say that someone had a happy childhood because there were some happy experiences in it is ridiculous .... even the most abused children do experience and savor every happy or good experience and can seem very normal on the outside ... the person who said this obviously had a very cushy life especially childhood and is speaking without knowledge or experience
I grew up with a very controlling mother as well, so I can really relate to Victoria's desire to be free completely shun her own mother. People who didn't grow up in families who likes to micromanage all aspects of your life so you grow up to be completely reliant on their parents wouldn't understand at all.
well am Indian , always have been intrigued by history of British royal family , so much different story , and i think most popular and most researched royal family in the world .
And it's still happening now. I wonder in 100yrs what they will say about our edited/redacted or hidden/missing files.. I was born in 1979 and still wonder who really killed JFK and why Jack Ruby killed Oswald? I don't think we will ever know that one.
we all edit and redact our memories constantly, look at how the witness accounts vary on any given traffic accident. Or how different we remember events from our schooldays, how different each sibling remembers events at home.. how different spouses view their marriage as time goed by.. There are some good lectures on the nature of memory here on youtube, try them.
@@esmeraldaweatherwaxe970 Yes, memories aren't reliable but it makes things even more difficult in a historic sense when people actually lie and leave things out to try and change history.
she had no one to talk to, literally. Think about t. No close friends, no sisters, no mother to trust with your thoughts.. so she wrote. It's how the mind deals with trauma: write it down or talk about it.
I can’t speak for other only children but as for myself I would go mad if I didn’t have time completely alone, and had to have someone with me at all times as anyone would.
You are not the only hair to inherit a throne of a major European country, and if you die or injure yourself and unable to rule, county very well may end up in a civil war or government crisis. She was. That’s why she was considered a precious jewel to be guarded at all times. Just her bad luck to end up only hair of English throne.
Maybe he has a physical problem! I have and i was teased for it.. Not that i think it matters a jot in this or any instance. Just enjoy the documentary! 😊
12:34 this is so ignorant! You can have a few good times in a bad childhood! This is in her own words. What are they trying to say she's lying? This is why I hate historian sometimes.
Not necessarily lying, but a lot of chikdren even as adults over-exaggerate to themselves and others how awful their parents and childhoods really were.
@@catherinepositano8544 Monarchs are stylised with Roman numbers instead of Arabic, so it's QE II ... but actually that isn't right because you correctly would use the acronym for Elizabeth Regina, so ER, which makes it ER II ...
Many historical documents are more safely handled without gloves than with gloves, depending on what they are. Gloves can sometimes cause more harm than clean hands, particularly when tearing is a risk, particularly with books. Some could still be copies, of course, but this idea that documents should be handled with gloves is not current: www.forbes.com/sites/booked/2012/03/21/the-white-glove-myth/
Freshly washed hands are sometimes better than gloves. Wearing gloves takes away the fine touch sense from your hands, so you may not be as gentle as you can be with bare hands.
I would be so embarrassed if someone read my journals after i died. It would be funny to read the journals now adays however, imagine if a journalist in the 3000 read a journal filled with the F-words and lol.
That's the way it will be if the human race survives to such a period. It's the vocabulary of our day so it's what future generations will read and will have to, interpret and translate certain words to the vocabulary of their day.
Well iller is like Pain sick is like cold or corona virus but when you have the corona virus you become iller I'm sorry if I don't make sense I'm from America
that was the furthest from casual, that was so contrived it made my toenails curl.. he probably saw it once in a movie and figured it looked dashing, but he couldn't pull it off properly, it looked awkward and stalker-esque.
I think the historians who tried to read and understand her deep personality and hapbit should' nt bring yourself to the conclusions what she was from all private letters she wrote. I think she wrote everything fllowing really from her heart, no pretending at all,it's the good informationsin historian evidences.though, I've never read the letters with my eyes but I think she revealed reality from her deep mind. I 've never seen such great monarchs like her write through life. I think she was the good talent monarch eger to learn things surround her that should be admirable.
I don't get it, in her letters Queen Victoria claims she had no brothers or sisters but she had 2 half-sinblings from her mother's first marriage who lived with her until she was 9 years old, and apparently her sister wrote her a letter thanking Victoria for all her kindness. So... she suddenly forgot about them as she grew older?
I don't think she considered them "siblings" in the traditional sense because they were "half" siblings and didn't share much of her life with her. It's not a contradiction at all. I DO have a full sister, but because she is 9 years older than me and moved out when I was 8... I felt like an only child most of my life.
I must ask...the letters written to her were addressed to "My dear Victoria..." from her mother. She was always known as Alexandrina, not Victoria. She chose Victoria when she became Queen. This doesn't make sense...
Many people went by their middle name. Her nickname was actually 'Drina. The name you take as monarch isn't necessarily your first name. Edward the 7th was an Albert. George the 6th was also an Albert. You are often named after family but coronated differently to avoid direct confusion
@@JB-vd8bi plus Albert doesn't sound as regal as Edward or George ... plus picking names that were used before demonstrates your will / wish for continuity and showing you want to be as successful as the predecessor whose name you took as your own. Guess why I doubt Charles would use his own name ... didn't go well with Charles I and Charles II ...
She was called Drina in early childhood, but at some point-- I think when she was around 6 or 7-- she decided that she wanted to be called Victoria instead.
@@lilymarinovic1644 true but what many people associate with his reign are mainly horrible events such as the Second Danish War, the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London plus the failure to produce a legitimate heir, preventing his brother from succeeding him (who was the cause for a lot of trouble later on, if you look at the Jacobite rebellions).
Very well documented; the Family history so facinating. What Beautiful places they had and visited, with such character and Inspiration. I do wish I could have met Queen Victoria.
Still, the Hanovers DID have British royal blood in them, so technically the family line is continuous. I do agree though that only in the last 100 years has Britain's royal family gotten a lot more native ancestry back in them.
what's with the hysteric capital letters? Chill out. How many people on the planet have that name, do you expect them all to have fits like this? Grow up.
How is it missed that she clearly (correctly) held her mother responsible for the ominous presence of Conroy in her life? Pretty sure that equates equivalent to a bad childhood.
I can see why the narrator disliked Albert. He kept her pregnant and while she suffered from postpartum for a decade, stole her rightful power. They may have loved each other but that’s cold. Then everyone had the nerve to call Victoria crazy. A lady that survived 7 assassination attempts
What's odd though is Victoria did have extreme love for Albert despite their disagreements. Either they must have resolved the conflict or the "power struggle" has been exaggerated. Neither of them took an affair their whole marriage, which definitely says something.
@@thunderbird1921 well I guess because his beliefs he didn't want to take a mistress he'd rather have his wife resulting in many pregnancies LOL depending on who's looking at it there could be different meanings from having all those children. I bet she wish she knew about birth control.
The myth of a totally unhappy childhood was born… That’s not our judgment call to make, and certainly not yours old man. Seems to me that when she was 16 and that illness struck her and she was confronted by Conroy that she saw everything that had happened up to that point and it’s true light. That’s all that was. Her realization was actually quite accurate. Honestly this whole video is so heavily laden with patriarchal points of view as to completely discount the reality for women and that Queen Victoria portrayed in some of her letters especially to her daughter. I would really like someone with an open mind free of the assumptions and lies about women that are swallowed by the patriarchy and taught by it to actually honestly portray Queen Victoria‘s life… And allow her truth to actually be told.
Am I the only one who really can't stand Kate Williams (the historian speaking at 11:05)? I've seen her in quite few history documentaries, and there's something about her that annoys me no end.
@@esmeraldaweatherwaxe970 But . . . he did have an extremely heavy German accent. That's indisputable fact based on primary sources at the time who heard him.
See, this is why I love UA-cam comments. You're watching a very stodgy historical documentary, and some other delightful human comments on a tiny little quirk. Then you realize we're all just fumbling through UA-cam and life, looking for humor, and finding it in the most ridiculous places. Fumble on, fellow UA-camrs! I'm here for it.
Just because she needed for nothing, doesn't mean she was a happy child. Money and riches can't replace parental affection and time and not seen as a meal ticket. Also - anyone who wasn't in her shoes, has no right saying stuff was true or not. Talk about victim shaming. This dude is seriously rude mentioning countless times how the Queen distanced herself from mother dearest.
As someone who was abused as a child. It is very saddening that they dismissed Queen Victoria's perspective so lightly. The family that adopted me were of well do to stature. They gave me nice things (to an extent really). It was done to show others how charitable they wrre towarda me. And also because they felt guilty to how they treated me. Saying all of this to say that it doesn't matter that Queen Victoria had her dolls, her Beloved Pet Dash etc. Those are the RIGHTS of a child to have a loving, fun and carefree childhood. That doesn't take away from the the fact that Connroy and Duchess Kent were awful to her. Also to add that the Host of this documentary is Hilarious when he does his SUPER CRINGEWORTHY German accent of Queen Victoria. 🤣
No matter how intelligent we are, as children we lack adult perspective. We hold our parents responsible for all our troubles, without realizing how young they were when we were born. Especially true for mothers, who’ve traditionally done the most child raising. They seem all-oowerful gods to us. When in my thirties I pieced together my own mother’s own neglected childhood, I understood much more. She had to repeat first grade; she was hospitalized for ‘failure to thrive:’ anorexia nervosa. It explained much.
it explained much, but it never excused anything, do not think that you owe her, she owed you, you did not ask to be born, she shoudl have figured out her stuff and fixed it before having children. Understanding is necessary to place it in context and to avoid making the same mistakes, to break th vicious cycle of intergenerational abuse.. but it doesn't mean you have to forgive and forget. It's up to you wether you want to continue the contact or remove yourself from harm. You owe an abuser nothing. nothing. Not even a xmas card.
Because her father (Duke of Kent) was older than George's father. So naturally the line of ascension will follow the Duke of Kent's dependents first, before passing on to the next sibling and their dependents etc. Also, you had to be born in England in order to inherit the British throne, which is why the Duke of Kent rushed his laboring wife to London to give birth, because he knew his child would be heir to the throne (behind him), only if born in England. George Duke of Cambridge was born in Germany.
I didn’t understand earlier either. So I just googled. Look at it like this- when the Queen’s reign ends, the next in line is Charles. After Charles it would be his son William (not his brother Andrew). The same for after William- next in line would be his son George (not his brother Harry). That comparison made it make sense, for me.
A.N.Wilson is hilarious. Whoever directed the shots was a master of ludicrousness. The staging is very Fais and serves as a great one to punch beside the narrator‘s own camp. And I love it! I think AN Wilson ought to be a cult classic in his own right. I’m trying to find more of him.
Looting, beef lamb pork chicken fish eggs milk vegetables grain etc. All of the above mentioned will feature N an award-winning movie relating to the starvation of millions of Ireland's population. The barbaric & shameful + greed filth mentality of such a tribal character is beyond all acts of genocide.
Victoria and Albert did have some quarrels, but they never fell out of love or really got distant. In fact, Albert said he felt their love was strongest after 1851 (for the rest of his life that is), so they either they resolved their issues or the "power struggle" has been exaggerated. Some people also dislike Albert for seeming to discourage Victoria's desires for friendship with France, but his concerns were understandable. The French in centuries past had repeatedly threatened Britain's power and his native Germany had been ravaged by the Napoleonic Wars. Ironically, the leader who Victoria mostly built the Anglo-French alliance with was Napoleon III (and despite his uncle's actions, the French emperor seems to eventually have at least earned Albert's respect).
AFAIK often German in the family and English in the public. Edward VIII was one of the last of the Royal family who spoke and understood German very well. Prince Philip also speaks German very well. At least he did so a few years ago. Now, becoming older, that might have changed a bit.
14:44 is odd--no other legitimate heirs? At the time of William IV's death, he still had three living brothers--Ernest, King of Hannover; Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and both Ernest and Adophus had sons called George who were born in 1819, the same year as Victoria! George of Hannover was 3 days younger and George of Cambridge was a little under two months older.
@@JGJGAGSG Correct, but that's not what the presenter said. He said "There were no other legitimate heirs to the throne." But there, in fact, were plenty of other heirs. Within the royal family alone, you would have HRH Princess Victoria of Kent HRH The Duke of Cumberland HRH Prince George of Cumberland HRH The Duke of Sussex HRH The Duke of Cambridge HRH Prince George of Cambridge HRH Princess Augusta of Cambridge HRH Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge HRH The Princess Augusta Sophia HRH The Princess Elizabeth HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester HRH The Princess Sophia HRH Princess Sophia of Gloucester And then any other legitimate descendants of Frederick, Prince of Wales, George II and George I who were still living, not Catholic and legitimate. So there were, in fact, plenty of legitimate heirs to the throne. What the presenter should have said is "William IV had no legitimate children who could inherit the throne, and so it passed to his niece Victoria." and not "There were no other legitimate heirs" when there were plenty of legitimate heirs. There just weren't any who were children of William.
Anyone who is good with management, sales and marketing knows your strength is in interpersonal relationships and emotional intelligence. The bedchamber stand off isn't just a "teenage tantrum" wouldn't you want to keep your ladies in waiting who you trust vs a demand by paliament? For her it was personal. For politics it's controlling her to their own advantage.
Queen Victoria was a Gemini, communication is everything, even to the point of chatting away to themselves. King George V was also Gemini and he said "people who write books should shut their mouths".
oh my. Astrology? Really? what next.. palmistry? Clairvoyance? Please, get a grip on your trauma and stop falling for these scams. Try a book by James Randi, it will clear out those cobwebs.
is she holding a "fleet Enema" on her lap in her statue @ 0: 14? the Albert saga is all her fault, she had him put in a can against his will and is an irrevocable stain on her rule.
This must of been film a while ago as Victoria is no longer England’s longest reigning monarch it Elizabeth ll who next year will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee or 70yrs on the throne where as Victoria reigned for 63yrs. Both Queens are the only monarchs who have had their Diamond Jubilees
She is popular to this day....why? She hid herself from the public becoming known as the “Widow of Windsor”.......in other words she kept the public wondering about her, ie, she never lifted the shades for people to look in..........unlike today’s Royal Family with whom the public is intimately acquainted with.
As a child of abuse just because you have a happy memory with your family DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAD A GOOD CHILDHOOD.
I like using the analogy my friend told me: if someone is horrible to you all the time and nice to you rarely, it does not make them a nice person. The same can be said about childhoods.
Never let someone tell you your childhood wasn't that bad because you had some fond memories in it. Nobody but you experienced it and dont let someone tell you different! ):
Well said, I totally agree with you. I had an abusive childhood and you can't have somebody being good and bad to you simultaneously. If they're being bad to you, then they are out and out bad. Any seemingly good deeds, however rare, do not discount the bad. If bad deeds are done, then these abusers have chosen to be bad. They cannot say that they've done any good to you.
@@AkashaMedea777 Indeed. But her childhood was sadly typical of royals at that time.
@Ew,exactly.
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Picking Anna Chancellor as a reader was the best thing ever. I love this woman.
The lady reading for Victoria gives such life to her words. You get the feeling you are hearing Victoria speaking for herself. Brilliant.
Beautiful comment, hi Rebecca how are you and your family doing with the pandemic issue?
@@adamsmaxwell9927 I am from a rural area in the Deep South. As you could imagine we have wide open spaces in which to walk and get fresh air. There are a few families in our community that has had the bug as well as my aunt and her family. So, we have been affected by it but nothing like those who live in the city or bigger towns. I still haven't gotten the jab even though I intend to. But thank you for so kindly asking. I live with my elderly mother and we are both doing well. But this South Carolina heat and humidity keeps us inside with the AC 22 out of 24 hours most days. It's unbearable most days. How are you and where are you from?
I’m doing good thank you for asking, I’m originally from Ireland but live in Austin Texas
@@rebeccagilstrap3507 I really can’t wait for the world to be normal again, Are you on WhatsApp? so I can give you my contact info so we can talk more better there
@@rebeccagilstrap3507 Have you gotten "the jab" yet? Has anyone else in your family gotten COVID?
P.S. These men trying to pick women up through UA-cam are very strange
34:59 "I could do my German accent for that bit, it's really good"
"No Andrew, I don't thi"
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Elliot Taylor I saw this before the 34 min mark- and honestly his accent is even better than I’d ever hoped
Btw I love that he was alone, on the streets doing this accent. Glorious.
Lmao!!! That was funny! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@TIFFANYDlAS I was just thinking how anyone walking by would probably think he was schizophrenic. lol
I was anticipating. It was better than I expected.
Victoria DID love her children an awful lot. She had a difficult time to coope with post-natal depression and despised pregnancy, true, and it's also true she didn't like babies. But it's not true that she was jealous of her children in the way that she hated them. Victoria wasn't a true mother-bird baby-cuddler but she always wanted what was best for her children. If you read her diaries, you'll see how she prays for them and notices their individual personalities.
This is true each year that passed after my mom died I would feel guilty thinking of how I could have handled the situation with her differently. Continuously questioning myself and my behavior and almost forgetting the beatings and name-calling.maybe if I would have acted differently she wouldn't have treated me that way and almost forgetting I acted that way trying to fight off the physical and verbal abuse. When I was about 50 and she was talking about what a bad child I was I asked her mom what did I do that was so bad? And she said you kept running away. I ran away because of the beatings.
I agree...cuz I understand the difference tween a broken psychology dominant spouse & a non-broken headspace individual.....everything I here of pans out....
@@pamelaevm880 lady, your mother was empathy-deficient headspace.... like yourself I’m a non-broken psychology peep 👀.....look 🆙 Cluster B psychology & the magnetic 🧲 syndrome.....PLEEEEEEEAAASSEEE....please......
@@luckyluckyloulou6100 thank you. Because of your comment I reread what I wrote. I'm kind of surprised at myself that I went backwards after achieving so much and not blaming myself for how she was. And thank you for the suggestion I'll try to find it and look it up.
@@pamelaevm880 set yourself free. You wee a CHILD, THERE wàs noway for YOU to know! Aas a parent SHE WAS THE ADULT, SHE HAD THE RESOURSES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO USE THEM. BUT DIDN'T. I LOVED MY OWN MOTHER. I JUST DIDN'T *LIKE* HER VERY MUCH. SHE WAS A DRUNK.THAT WASNT *MY*PROBLEM TO FIX, IT TOOK ME DECADES AFTER HER DESTH TO FINALLY COME TO TERMS WITH THAT. BUT I DID KNOW, IMMEDIATELY, THST SLTHOUGH DHE WAS A LOVING GRANDMOTHER, HAD MY CHILDREN BEEN in her car with her, they'd have died with her. THAT would have ruined me. Even my children weren't enough to interfere with her drinking.
I'm not a Brit but I've always loved reading journals and letters from the past. We get so much more detailed information about how things looked and felt like in the past no matter if they were royalty or a common person.
Yes same here. I saw DVD on the Georgians where Britain have many old journals about what people wrote about their private lives in the centuries past. Very interesting.
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I really appreciate all about the total family
I wonder if it's because they didn't have a social media platforms that we all have now that they were so detailed and so consistent about journaling cuz in a hundred years or something no one's going to have our Twitter to read and any of our social media feeds and they're even though they're really detailed like what we're eating or what we're doing I think that the journaling part of it it's more eloquent
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Not really keen to the fact that he assumes what Queen Victoria’s childhood was like. She herself said that her childhood was unhappy; who is he to say otherwise?
Passive Intolerance Frankly it doesn't matter who Andrew is. Victoria herself declared her childhood unhappy. He is not trained in psychology, and therefore should not be qualified to judge someone's thoughts and feelings when it contradicts what they say, so why should he be able to discern Victoria's own words?
Tbh she was never happy with anyone or anything. She was an excuse maker.
@@jamiemohan2049 A lot of people say that.
@@jamiemohan2049 except with her beloved husband and father of her children Albert
It's not that deep, yo
..."woman, what are ya doin...." finger waggle. I love this presenter. He is so dry and expressionless...I didn't expect that at all.
This person has a great sense of underlying sarcasm. Brilliant!
Can they control the ads better? I don't have a problem with ads but do they have to be inserted in the middle of a sentence usually cutting off a word. There's plenty of pause points in the video to insert an ad without being so abrupt.
@Kuchi Kopi Oh my god, that's amazing. Appreciate the advice lmao
@Kuchi Kopi I've been using your little trick and it works a treat....Many Thanks ☺
AdBlock.
They ripped these off it’s what’s so bad about it. 🙄 they don’t even own this stuff.
Ummmmmm are you all serious? Use Google Chrome, and then add the extension Adblocker. I haven't seen an ad in years.
to say that someone had a happy childhood because there were some happy experiences in it is ridiculous .... even the most abused children do experience and savor every happy or good experience and can seem very normal on the outside ... the person who said this obviously had a very cushy life especially childhood and is speaking without knowledge or experience
Marie Jeannine Sylvie Lachaine This is so true.
Marie Jeannine Sylvie Lachaine tell me.... what was ur childhood like
Marie, how utterly true! Thank you!
I grew up with a very controlling mother as well, so I can really relate to Victoria's desire to be free completely shun her own mother.
People who didn't grow up in families who likes to micromanage all aspects of your life so you grow up to be completely reliant on their parents wouldn't understand at all.
Yep
well am Indian , always have been intrigued by history of British royal family , so much different story , and i think most popular and most researched royal family in the world .
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might be the greatest thing I've ever seen
What a shame, when it comes to history, so much is edited or redacted...
And it's still happening now. I wonder in 100yrs what they will say about our edited/redacted or hidden/missing files.. I was born in 1979 and still wonder who really killed JFK and why Jack Ruby killed Oswald? I don't think we will ever know that one.
That's why its called history... "his-story".
we all edit and redact our memories constantly, look at how the witness accounts vary on any given traffic accident. Or how different we remember events from our schooldays, how different each sibling remembers events at home.. how different spouses view their marriage as time goed by..
There are some good lectures on the nature of memory here on youtube, try them.
@@esmeraldaweatherwaxe970 Yes, memories aren't reliable but it makes things even more difficult in a historic sense when people actually lie and leave things out to try and change history.
Wonderful documentary, I learned so much! Thank you for the upload.
oh my god she wrote thousand of words, what else did she have to do? Money and toys, a dog does not make up for lack of parental love or human love
she had no one to talk to, literally. Think about t. No close friends, no sisters, no mother to trust with your thoughts.. so she wrote. It's how the mind deals with trauma: write it down or talk about it.
she was a queen.. countrys don't rule themselves
@@reneejones5675 she didn’t rule anything tho the poor lady was fooled to believe she ruled anything
@@ismailmounsif1109 she did so.. she was still queen of 16 or 15 countrys.. she was out late queen, God save the King
I can’t speak for other only children but as for myself I would go mad if I didn’t have time completely alone, and had to have someone with me at all times as anyone would.
You are not the only hair to inherit a throne of a major European country, and if you die or injure yourself and unable to rule, county very well may end up in a civil war or government crisis.
She was. That’s why she was considered a precious jewel to be guarded at all times. Just her bad luck to end up only hair of English throne.
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Jeez! I seriously can’t believe I typed “hair” instead... It’s happening! My mind is going..
@Ingrid Weiner wow, how sad
@@azzzanadra why is that sad? It's a personal choice
She Helped Black people, I admire her
I was abused too, yet there were moments of happiness during my childhood. It’s not unbelievable
He has the funniest little walk, I’ve never seen anyone walk like that
He looks like he use to be big and lost a lot of weight and didn't get his extra skin removed in certain frames of the video.
Maybe he had an injury.
@@karentucker2161 I'm pretty sure that he wasn't originally overweight.......
Maybe he has a physical problem! I have and i was teased for it.. Not that i think it matters a jot in this or any instance. Just enjoy the documentary! 😊
it's kinda cute
it is really amazing how you can learn about her . i lover these shows like this
There should be NO ads with documentary’s there I said it .. love theses docos
Amen
Fast forward it to the end then rewind it to the beginning. Takes out the commercials!! 😀😀
use opera, and you will never see an ad again.
You tube premium! So worth it!! 💜
12:34 this is so ignorant! You can have a few good times in a bad childhood! This is in her own words. What are they trying to say she's lying? This is why I hate historian sometimes.
Not necessarily lying, but a lot of chikdren even as adults over-exaggerate to themselves and others how awful their parents and childhoods really were.
Unless you grew up in an abusive controlling situation, with a narcissist, you have no clue how Queen Victoria felt.
QE2 is Britain's longest reigning monarch having passed Queen Victoria's record on 9 September 2015
QE2 is the former Ocean liner, our monarch is Queen Elizabeth II.
@@dlnec1.. Me thinks you're simply looking for an argument!
@@catherinepositano8544 no it's an important point. It's insulting and ignorant
@@JB-vd8bi... What is? I don't know what you're referring to.
@@catherinepositano8544 Monarchs are stylised with Roman numbers instead of Arabic, so it's QE II ... but actually that isn't right because you correctly would use the acronym for Elizabeth Regina, so ER, which makes it ER II ...
Whoever makes these documentaries is a saint ❤🎉
You handled these original documents without gloves? Extraordinary!
All the documents he handles are copies I believe, not originals.
Let's hope they are copies. Love the handle Paladin, and profile pic. Have gun, Will travel!
Many historical documents are more safely handled without gloves than with gloves, depending on what they are. Gloves can sometimes cause more harm than clean hands, particularly when tearing is a risk, particularly with books. Some could still be copies, of course, but this idea that documents should be handled with gloves is not current: www.forbes.com/sites/booked/2012/03/21/the-white-glove-myth/
Freshly washed hands are sometimes better than gloves. Wearing gloves takes away the fine touch sense from your hands, so you may not be as gentle as you can be with bare hands.
depends what the material is.. some stuff doesn't need gloves, some does.
I would be so embarrassed if someone read my journals after i died. It would be funny to read the journals now adays however, imagine if a journalist in the 3000 read a journal filled with the F-words and lol.
Well, monarchs lives are public.
If you got some juicy stuff in there yes it could be but it wouldn't matter after you're dead.you can't stop ppl from reading it.
Her daughter Vicky edited her diaries so extra juicy details were taken out
@@izqaa1141 why would she do that?
That's the way it will be if the human race survives to such a period. It's the vocabulary of our day so it's what future generations will read and will have to, interpret and translate certain words to the vocabulary of their day.
6:16 that awkward lean tho
Jazminne 😂😂😂😂
...and WALK! 😂😂
yeah, it's very 'Stalkers United'
Why do all the thumbnails recently have someone pulling a weird face?
Worked, didn't it? "Made you look."
Because it makes stupid people who don’t read click on the video.
@@wibble2482 I find them quite appalling personally... makes me actually read the title to find out what the face might express
gets people to click on them..
17:44...."She became "iller"?" Not "sicker"? I realize "iller" is a proper word but sounds strange to my American, barbaric ear.
It sounds strange to me too and I am British!
'Her illness worsened'. Iller & sicker both seem odd to me.
Ikr
Well iller is like Pain sick is like cold or corona virus but when you have the corona virus you become iller I'm sorry if I don't make sense I'm from America
@@efrembekele2908 America and England, two nations divided by a common language, as Oscar Wilde said.
"...but also somebody, contrary to what's so often said about her, who was easily amused."
I don't know why but I find that remark so wholesome.
"...her husband is extending his finger into wifey's moist little palm." This presenter is a legend. 47:00
How
I hope part 2 will be uploaded! Great documentary!
Glad you enjoyed it, Part 2 is up tomorrow!
Someone's got a crush on the Queen.
And a little jealous of Prince Albert! And any man in Queen Victorias life.
wow this narrator does NOT like Prince Albert...
He wrote a book about Albert though
many english have a deep hatred of germans, my mother in law did too.. they were raised that way, sad really.
How old is this documentary? Elizabeth II became longest reigning monarch as of 2015.
2014, says in the credits MMXIV
if you had internet you could look it up.. oh wait.
Thank you for a very interesting and informative background of Queen Victoria eyes so glued to my phone!!
Gotta love the 'casual lean' against the tree... Even the cameraman was trying to hide it
that was the furthest from casual, that was so contrived it made my toenails curl.. he probably saw it once in a movie and figured it looked dashing, but he couldn't pull it off properly, it looked awkward and stalker-esque.
Thoroughly enjoyed the presenter A N Wilson of this video ❤ great video thanku ❤
I think the historians who tried to read and understand her deep personality and hapbit should' nt bring yourself to the conclusions what she was from all private letters she wrote. I think she wrote everything fllowing really from her heart, no pretending at all,it's the good informationsin historian evidences.though, I've never read the letters with my eyes but I think she revealed reality from her deep mind. I 've never seen such great monarchs like her write through life. I think she was the good talent monarch eger to learn things surround her that should be admirable.
I don't get it, in her letters Queen Victoria claims she had no brothers or sisters but she had 2 half-sinblings from her mother's first marriage who lived with her until she was 9 years old, and apparently her sister wrote her a letter thanking Victoria for all her kindness. So... she suddenly forgot about them as she grew older?
And when Feodora passed, she was greatly affected. Homegirl is a bunch of contradictions.
they were alot older than her I think,so they wouldn't have been that close
I don't think she considered them "siblings" in the traditional sense because they were "half" siblings and didn't share much of her life with her. It's not a contradiction at all. I DO have a full sister, but because she is 9 years older than me and moved out when I was 8... I felt like an only child most of my life.
I must ask...the letters written to her were addressed to "My dear Victoria..." from her mother. She was always known as Alexandrina, not Victoria. She chose Victoria when she became Queen. This doesn't make sense...
Many people went by their middle name. Her nickname was actually 'Drina. The name you take as monarch isn't necessarily your first name. Edward the 7th was an Albert. George the 6th was also an Albert. You are often named after family but coronated differently to avoid direct confusion
@@JB-vd8bi plus Albert doesn't sound as regal as Edward or George ... plus picking names that were used before demonstrates your will / wish for continuity and showing you want to be as successful as the predecessor whose name you took as your own. Guess why I doubt Charles would use his own name ... didn't go well with Charles I and Charles II ...
She was called Drina in early childhood, but at some point-- I think when she was around 6 or 7-- she decided that she wanted to be called Victoria instead.
@@MaryHaleyKelly Charles II wasn't too awful, restored the Monarchy and all, but yeah, not a great name to pick ...
@@lilymarinovic1644 true but what many people associate with his reign are mainly horrible events such as the Second Danish War, the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London plus the failure to produce a legitimate heir, preventing his brother from succeeding him (who was the cause for a lot of trouble later on, if you look at the Jacobite rebellions).
The presenter is throughly amusing though covers history amazingly !!! He is rather enjoyable to watch ....
They list all these controlling/ abusive behaviours then call her unhappy childhood a 'myth'
Love, love, love THIS!!
Very well documented; the Family history so facinating. What Beautiful places they had and visited, with such character and Inspiration. I do wish I could have met Queen Victoria.
I enjoted this documentary. Thank you for sharing!
I'm Australian and live in Melbourne, Victoria Australia
"Ernest was taller and funnier" ouch.
Notice he didn't say "more attractive".
@@kyndramb7050 especially at that time tall men were considered attractive. Making it almost synonymous, unless specifically stated he wasnt.
Albert was not known for his sense of humour...at all.
What an enriching documentary! The lockdown brought me here.
Same here
expect a documentary about 2020 in about 50 years 😂
Queen Victoria was way more than 3/4 German. Her closest British ancestor was Elisabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I.
Still, the Hanovers DID have British royal blood in them, so technically the family line is continuous. I do agree though that only in the last 100 years has Britain's royal family gotten a lot more native ancestry back in them.
Having been born with the name Victoria, the shock of Victor/ia's identity WOKE ME UP MORE!!!!
Her name was Alexandrina Victoria, she was often called 'Drina'.
what's with the hysteric capital letters? Chill out.
How many people on the planet have that name, do you expect them all to have fits like this? Grow up.
Excellent documentary!!
How is it missed that she clearly (correctly) held her mother responsible for the ominous presence of Conroy in her life?
Pretty sure that equates equivalent to a bad childhood.
exactly, it is abuse, and no amount of special treats can make up for that they clearly misunderstand the nature and damge of abuse. Sickening. :/
Maria Theresia did the same thing with Marie Antoinette.
mudgetheexpendable did what? Please elaborate.
@@stephaniepetrosky1991 gave her daughter endless epistolary advice and instruction.
@@stephaniepetrosky1991How about learn your history?
I have been watching about this series on UA-cam amazing didn't know about Victoria
I can see why the narrator disliked Albert. He kept her pregnant and while she suffered from postpartum for a decade, stole her rightful power. They may have loved each other but that’s cold. Then everyone had the nerve to call Victoria crazy. A lady that survived 7 assassination attempts
Everything I have watched and read makes me think he was controlling. What better way to assume your wife's power than to keep her pregnant
What's odd though is Victoria did have extreme love for Albert despite their disagreements. Either they must have resolved the conflict or the "power struggle" has been exaggerated. Neither of them took an affair their whole marriage, which definitely says something.
@@thunderbird1921 well I guess because his beliefs he didn't want to take a mistress he'd rather have his wife resulting in many pregnancies LOL depending on who's looking at it there could be different meanings from having all those children. I bet she wish she knew about birth control.
Too little, too late... heaping so much shame. It’s so wonderful that you don’t understand for you; please stop victim blaming others.
Well done! Thanks for that!
Is it just me or does the narrator look like a love child of Victoria? Close eyes no chin and miss matched ears ❤ X x
@James Hama are you the narrator? If so it's lovely meet you too ❤ X x
Love the crazy eyes as your pic on the thumbnail. Perfect
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I love this stuff !!!
34:59 was unnecessary
Marvelous, thank you
The myth of a totally unhappy childhood was born… That’s not our judgment call to make, and certainly not yours old man. Seems to me that when she was 16 and that illness struck her and she was confronted by Conroy that she saw everything that had happened up to that point and it’s true light. That’s all that was. Her realization was actually quite accurate. Honestly this whole video is so heavily laden with patriarchal points of view as to completely discount the reality for women and that Queen Victoria portrayed in some of her letters especially to her daughter. I would really like someone with an open mind free of the assumptions and lies about women that are swallowed by the patriarchy and taught by it to actually honestly portray Queen Victoria‘s life… And allow her truth to actually be told.
You don't have to be a feminist to realise that Victoria really did have an unhappy, oppressive childhood at the hands of Conroy and her mother.
I would love to read this writings , so interesting .....it’s 🙏🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
try a bookshop.
Am I the only one who really can't stand Kate Williams (the historian speaking at 11:05)? I've seen her in quite few history documentaries, and there's something about her that annoys me no end.
A.N. Wilson does an excellent impression of Albert!
dunno I found it extremely annoying, not all Germans speak like they learnt English from a book. That's such a dumb English notion.
@@esmeraldaweatherwaxe970 But . . . he did have an extremely heavy German accent. That's indisputable fact based on primary sources at the time who heard him.
Could there BE more ads in this video?
opera, the browser. try it and stop whining here about your lack of understanding of the technology you use.
42:33 ear hair game is stronk
See, this is why I love UA-cam comments. You're watching a very stodgy historical documentary, and some other delightful human comments on a tiny little quirk. Then you realize we're all just fumbling through UA-cam and life, looking for humor, and finding it in the most ridiculous places. Fumble on, fellow UA-camrs! I'm here for it.
@@hippymama100 ????
Ew😖
Excellent
Just because she needed for nothing, doesn't mean she was a happy child. Money and riches can't replace parental affection and time and not seen as a meal ticket. Also - anyone who wasn't in her shoes, has no right saying stuff was true or not. Talk about victim shaming. This dude is seriously rude mentioning countless times how the Queen distanced herself from mother dearest.
i am pens'nme 👏👏👏
As someone who was abused as a child. It is very saddening that they dismissed Queen Victoria's perspective so lightly. The family that adopted me were of well do to stature. They gave me nice things (to an extent really). It was done to show others how charitable they wrre towarda me. And also because they felt guilty to how they treated me. Saying all of this to say that it doesn't matter that Queen Victoria had her dolls, her Beloved Pet Dash etc. Those are the RIGHTS of a child to have a loving, fun and carefree childhood. That doesn't take away from the the fact that Connroy and Duchess Kent were awful to her.
Also to add that the Host of this documentary is Hilarious when he does his SUPER CRINGEWORTHY German accent of Queen Victoria. 🤣
When will the rest come out??
No matter how intelligent we are, as children we lack adult perspective. We hold our parents responsible for all our troubles, without realizing how young they were when we were born. Especially true for mothers, who’ve traditionally done the most child raising. They seem all-oowerful gods to us. When in my thirties I pieced together my own mother’s own neglected childhood, I understood much more. She had to repeat first grade; she was hospitalized for ‘failure to thrive:’ anorexia nervosa. It explained much.
it explained much, but it never excused anything, do not think that you owe her, she owed you, you did not ask to be born, she shoudl have figured out her stuff and fixed it before having children. Understanding is necessary to place it in context and to avoid making the same mistakes, to break th vicious cycle of intergenerational abuse.. but it doesn't mean you have to forgive and forget.
It's up to you wether you want to continue the contact or remove yourself from harm.
You owe an abuser nothing.
nothing. Not even a xmas card.
Wonderful .. thank you 🌹
Curious why her cousin George Duke of Cambridge. Didn't become King of England. And why she became Queen instead.
Because her father (Duke of Kent) was older than George's father. So naturally the line of ascension will follow the Duke of Kent's dependents first, before passing on to the next sibling and their dependents etc. Also, you had to be born in England in order to inherit the British throne, which is why the Duke of Kent rushed his laboring wife to London to give birth, because he knew his child would be heir to the throne (behind him), only if born in England. George Duke of Cambridge was born in Germany.
I didn’t understand earlier either. So I just googled. Look at it like this- when the Queen’s reign ends, the next in line is Charles. After Charles it would be his son William (not his brother Andrew). The same for after William- next in line would be his son George (not his brother Harry).
That comparison made it make sense, for me.
they did explain that at length in the video.. try watching it again.
A.N.Wilson is hilarious. Whoever directed the shots was a master of ludicrousness. The staging is very Fais and serves as a great one to punch beside the narrator‘s own camp. And I love it! I think AN Wilson ought to be a cult classic in his own right. I’m trying to find more of him.
Fey, not ‘Fais’. Stupid dictation.
TL:DW: Anything about how the Irish were starving?
At that time most of the people in the lower class where starving..
Looting, beef lamb pork chicken fish eggs milk vegetables grain etc.
All of the above mentioned will feature N an award-winning
movie relating to the starvation of millions of Ireland's population.
The barbaric & shameful + greed filth mentality of such a tribal
character is beyond all acts of genocide.
Damn, they went IN on Prince Albert. The disdain in which they speak of him, like damn. Are y’all still smarting from the Great Wars or something?
Victoria and Albert did have some quarrels, but they never fell out of love or really got distant. In fact, Albert said he felt their love was strongest after 1851 (for the rest of his life that is), so they either they resolved their issues or the "power struggle" has been exaggerated. Some people also dislike Albert for seeming to discourage Victoria's desires for friendship with France, but his concerns were understandable. The French in centuries past had repeatedly threatened Britain's power and his native Germany had been ravaged by the Napoleonic Wars. Ironically, the leader who Victoria mostly built the Anglo-French alliance with was Napoleon III (and despite his uncle's actions, the French emperor seems to eventually have at least earned Albert's respect).
yeah, in certain circles in the uk it is still deemed de rigour to speak about Germans like that.. Brexiteers and such, you know. The sad ones.
This is a great documentary. And this is exactly why I delete my browser history. Who want anyone reading their deep dark thoughts.
I don't care who reads my browser history.
It's what I've watched and read, not what I think.
My thoughts aren't controlled by the media I consume.
@@janrees4887 👏👏👏
My mother is getting on my nerves.
lmao i love the accent
did they speak in german and english to each other?
AFAIK often German in the family and English in the public.
Edward VIII was one of the last of the Royal family who spoke and understood German very well.
Prince Philip also speaks German very well. At least he did so a few years ago.
Now, becoming older, that might have changed a bit.
try a history lesson, in the middleages the courts spoke french. Yes, all of them,
I have Crohns disease.. Had no idea he had it as well.
MAGNET 🧲 SYNDROME....!!!!
14:44 is odd--no other legitimate heirs? At the time of William IV's death, he still had three living brothers--Ernest, King of Hannover; Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and both Ernest and Adophus had sons called George who were born in 1819, the same year as Victoria! George of Hannover was 3 days younger and George of Cambridge was a little under two months older.
That’s not how the line of succession works. It goes to the next brother and if he’s dead, then the brother’s child.
@@JGJGAGSG Correct, but that's not what the presenter said. He said "There were no other legitimate heirs to the throne." But there, in fact, were plenty of other heirs. Within the royal family alone, you would have
HRH Princess Victoria of Kent
HRH The Duke of Cumberland
HRH Prince George of Cumberland
HRH The Duke of Sussex
HRH The Duke of Cambridge
HRH Prince George of Cambridge
HRH Princess Augusta of Cambridge
HRH Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
HRH The Princess Augusta Sophia
HRH The Princess Elizabeth
HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester
HRH The Princess Sophia
HRH Princess Sophia of Gloucester
And then any other legitimate descendants of Frederick, Prince of Wales, George II and George I who were still living, not Catholic and legitimate.
So there were, in fact, plenty of legitimate heirs to the throne. What the presenter should have said is "William IV had no legitimate children who could inherit the throne, and so it passed to his niece Victoria." and not "There were no other legitimate heirs" when there were plenty of legitimate heirs. There just weren't any who were children of William.
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why does the guy have to imitate voices obnoxiously
I love it! How much fun.
It’s rude not funny
I looked at Queen Victoria's Knickers last week. True. She left them at the Bishops House in Hartlbury Castle.
(makes you think)
makes you think she had her period and they stayed there soaking in cold water.. if you think anything else you are showing your own upbringing.
Anyone who is good with management, sales and marketing knows your strength is in interpersonal relationships and emotional intelligence. The bedchamber stand off isn't just a "teenage tantrum" wouldn't you want to keep your ladies in waiting who you trust vs a demand by paliament? For her it was personal. For politics it's controlling her to their own advantage.
True, several times they write off Victoria’s emotions, just like those around her used to.
What a charming gentleman. Wish I could be so incandescent.
This presenter rocks!
Queen Victoria was a Gemini, communication is everything, even to the point of chatting away to themselves. King George V was also Gemini and he said "people who write books should shut their mouths".
oh my. Astrology? Really? what next.. palmistry? Clairvoyance? Please, get a grip on your trauma and stop falling for these scams.
Try a book by James Randi, it will clear out those cobwebs.
What country is that?
Leah Garces lmao
"The two princes of Orange were frightful oafs" 😂
Beautiful comment, hi Patricia how are you and your family doing with the pandemic issue?
trust me, looking at that family line now, I can agree.
Magnet 🧲 syndrome: 👀 look it 🆙.... broken Psychology & non-broken headspace getting together always makes “fireworks”.....
is she holding a "fleet Enema" on her lap in her statue @ 0: 14? the Albert saga is all her fault, she had him put in a can against his will and is an irrevocable stain on her rule.
@ thank you. btw is it somehow related to the "Royal Grenade of Antioch" referred to in a Monty Python documentary?
Elbert Derf It’s a scepter :)
This must of been film a while ago as Victoria is no longer England’s longest reigning monarch it Elizabeth ll who next year will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee or 70yrs on the throne where as Victoria reigned for 63yrs. Both Queens are the only monarchs who have had their Diamond Jubilees
She is popular to this day....why? She hid herself from the public becoming known as the “Widow of Windsor”.......in other words she kept the public wondering about her, ie, she never lifted the shades for people to look in..........unlike today’s Royal Family with whom the public is intimately acquainted with.