I work in a museum with many of Victoria’s letters, and I had to clean one (with a soft brush). If you have clean, dry hands you can usually hold paper fine. While transferring this letter from case to table I obviously had to hold it, and my right thumb was, for twenty seconds, (delicately) pressed against Queen Victoria’s signature.
Charlotte Rawlins nope. I left school last July! No intention of going to uni, but I’ve been volunteering at the same place since 2018 and everyone there knows that I want to work there so they’re teaching me as much as they can. I have a different job onsite which also helps pay for things 😂
@@79135claudsthats awesome. That's the best scenario. When you're already at a place that trusts you and knows you take it serious. I can't wait until I get to see and handle genuine historical writings.
If she says her childhood is sad, why don't they just believe her? At 18:40 the host keeps insisting she had a "happy childhood" depsite her mentioning her childhood was horrible and unhappy. This is probably one of the reasons why she likes to journal so much - because even if she tells someone about her unhappy childhood, they'll say "well, you're a princess and you've got everything you want and need so what's there to be unhappy about?" So sad. Also, I really disagree with them calling Victoria a "callous daughter" at 34:36. How she treated her mother is a reflection of how her mother treated her. When she was so sick, her mother didn't show an ounce of concern for her, instead thought that she was faking it and colluded with an outsider for her to give up her rights. *That* is what I would call callous. And saying Victoria is callous for ignoring her is ridiculous. Her mother never seemed to care much for Victoria, instead using her as a pawn for political power. So why did she expect the same care to be given back to her? Idk why this documentary seems so intent on vilifying Victoria. Would be better if they just laid out what was said in her diary instead of interpreting it. We don't really need your interpretation. We can interpret it for ourselves.
I was thinking the same about her childhood. They are looking at the material things and not how her childhood was and how she was treated. She is telling how she felt and what her emotions were and they are saying she had pretty things so everything must be ok and she is just fabricating it all. As you said they should just tell the story and leave out their thoughts on what they think her life was like.
I came here to say the very same thing. They don’t believe her because they think a gilded cage + a puppy = happiness. The poor girl couldn’t move without at least her mother or the mother’s narcissistic boyfriend being with her. They treated her as a commodity, a golden goose. And the fact that Victoria’s assessment changes periodically is very characteristic of abused children. It’s called splitting. Even bad moms sometimes play good moms. When it’s convenient to them, of course.
@@365kps2 Molest her?? Where did you hear that? She was never allowed to sleep alone, per the Kensington System, had a food taster, could not go down the stairs without holding someone else's hand, let alone could not be alone with a man without a chaperone. Her mother was afraid that she would have been poisoned or murdered in some other way, as her uncle was next in line to the throne. It is bc she was so angry that her mother controlled her life so much--in her opinion (until she would ascend the throne)--that she disliked her mother so much. Not because her mother was cruel to her. Do you have daughters who have hit their teens yet?
I don’t think being so isolated makes for a happy childhood. Toys and a dog only does so much for socialization. I’m not a fan of how they made Victoria out to be exaggerating the situation.
Really? For a life that started over a 100 years folks didn’t “socialize” like we do today so I’m sure she was happy as a child and did not have a FMO. Good grief
The lady who is reading the letters and diary has the most beautiful, pleasant to the ear and calming voice I have ever heard. I could listen to her reading for hours and hours 😊❤️
I recognized her from "Pride and Prejudice",the series starring Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie and (ooo!)Colin Firth as Mr.Darcy.Anna Chancellor played Mr.Bingley's unwed sister,Caroline.She does have a lovely speaking voice.I'm sure she's a much more pleasant person in real life than Caroline Bingley!
Next year QEII will pass alot of the monarchs on the list of the longest reigning monarchs, where most of them are at the 70 yr marker...the longest being at 72 yrs....I think she's got that one in the bad as well....the woman is just unstoppable, just saw her in a video at an event the other day, walking about, chatting and not missing a beat....She's quite admirable
Actually her early yrs up to 11 12 ish were good, she went to the theater 3 times a week & only had it bad from Conroy & his devilish plans for power as she was in her teens & ill, she later thought dreadfully of her mother but after she died Victoria found in moms house everything she'd worn from baby upwards with her mothers journals saying how much she loved Victoria, once bk at the Palace Victoria wrote of her knew found knowledge of her mothers deep love for her & she bemoaned that she'd treated her mum so badly from the moment she was Queen (at only 18) through to her mothers death. Changing how she felt of her mother after what she discovered how much her mother truly loved her.
@@tradingpost2472 I agree, but as someone who was raised with overbareing step parent. As Conroy was to her all without the title of step father. It sounds to me he made her life fairly miserable. Also the fact she had to sleep with her mom until 18? That's just controlling and odd. No wonder she later in life was so codependent on people. IE: Albert and then after his death her younger children. That was ingrained into in her adolescent years. Im.sure her life was great compared to normal life's at that time. But how they said in this documentary o well see she had a fun dog and played with dolls her life was nor as bad as she later claimed. Well everyone's life is based in ones perspective not always objective.
Shannon Flaherty let me guess? You have "anxiety and depression" right?? You were a victim of some random "abuse" right? how shocking lol. A whiny white woman complaining about her childhood. Grow up already and stop trying to play victim.
Just because a person is well off and has many things doesnt mean they had a good childhood. And good moments in childhood do not negate pain and trauma. I can identify with Voctoria in many ways - although i am not fabulously wealthy or a royal.
Sadly, me, too! Violence, poverty & abuse. Thank God for my Bostonian Mother, who was my savior. I was the youngest, so, I didn't have it as bad as my 5 older siblings. JC, what are parents (father) thinking taking THEIR misery out on their gifts from God? Sadly, "parenting" is still trying to cope.
I am an only child. My childhood was lonely. My parents worked 7 days a week come home when I am sleeping. I just have school, tutors and summer school otherwise I am at home alone. I used to cry a lot at school. People thought I was spoiled middle class girl when they don't know at my grandparent's home (they live 5 minutes walk from my parent's) I have witness my drug addicted uncle having those violent moments. My parents fighting because my school marks.
Of course you're not a Royal or fabulously wealthy who in the hell is this b******* half of it you can't believe and the other half you can just imagine. Anybody can relate to a physical and mental abuse and it makes you no special that you do. And a lot of this year you can't believe I fail to see where people are expertise and giving us this information and I'm tired of reading it I don't do it anymore
I am Mexican American and it is one of my biggest dreams to travel and visit historic sites throughout Europe. The castle’s, scenery, food, and museums, I want to experience it all.
How many people now know the word "stationery"? ---- I will keep some hand-written letters from family members. My uncle had perfect penmanship. I can remember their personalities when I see these letters.
Yes it was beautiful and it was taught in school I write cursive my mother writes cursive she's 89 they don't teach it in school anymore some people can't even read it that's unfathomable to me I am a lefty but I see almost everyone clutching a pen or pencil like it's going to escape them I don't know how they can write anything like that accept block grant maybe we were taught to delicately our fingers at a certain angle on our pencil and we were graded for it we had a class in elementary school and it was called handwriting
@@judahtribe7 in my country Dominican Republic, they still write in cursive in schools, i grew up writing cursive until i moved to the US, i’m not as good as i used to be, i am also a lefty :-)!
In Ireland Victoria is known as the "Famine queen" the irish famine started 1845 - 1852 and while the English might think her great, the Irish view her a lot differently. Millions evicted, million emigrated and over a million died as a result of the Famine. There are memorials in most towns in Ireland to the devastating effects of the Famine which happen in what was a province of Great Britain at that time. Help was offered by Ottoman sultan with aid on three ships one of the ships got through into Dundalk by breaking a blockade and as a result, Drogheda football team have as part of there club crest a crescent moon in recognition. The Turks also offered 10,000 pounds but British civil servants said "that that was too much and could be embarrassing for queen Victoria and 1000 would be better as it was less than her 2000 pounds. American choctaw Indian tribe sent 200 dollars in aid, a sizable sum at the time and is acknowledged even today by the Irish people. While Victoria may have been insulated by her government civil servants from the happenings in Ireland at this time she was queen of what was at that time a wealthiest and massive empire well capable of helping its people on literally its doorstep. Nobody is perfect and Victoria is just a person born into privilege with so called title and could have done more by careing more for the people of Ireland better. In the early 2000's Tony Blair acknowledged the failure of the British government at that time to ease the suffering of the Irish and apologized. This act of apology was well received in Ireland.
We in Scotland don't feel too good about the old cow either. (Sorry, cows) I despise the monarchy in general. So she had an unhappy childhood? So what? Lots more worthy people had bad childhoods too.
Famines, atrocities, mass scale loot, genocide, destruction of indigenous culture & even slavery persisted despite new rules.. that's the harsh reality of English Colonial rule in all their colonies. They most likely killed more people than Hitler ever did
oh well we Indian's feel the same way. This title "Famine Queen" is so relevant that present British royalty should consider bestowing it on her posthumously. All that victorian successful industrialization was the fruit of hideous extortion, stealing from vast countries which they conquered with just manipulation. One of her idiot viceroy threw a Delhi Darbar to just give her title 'empress' when half of the country was suffering through it's severe drought and epidemic.
funny how Victoria and King Christian of Denmark both became the grandparents of European royalty. The interconnectedness of all the European royal families continues until today.
Victoria: I had a unhappy childhood. People who never knew her, speaking for a TV show: Victoria had a happy childhood. Victoria: Who the F**k are these people?
Elva Rodriguez Rodriguez Beatrice was in the film, "Young Victoria", (Emily Blunt as Young Vicky) she was first or second in the line of Maids of Honor, at the very start of the film. If you don't pay attention or blink, you'll miss her.
When she became Queen, Victoria was really a naive young woman and Queen ...however she fought her mother’s choice in Albert for quite a time ... but I believe her hormones and romantic love ideas got the best of her holding off an early marriage.;) but she grew up real quickly after her first few back to back babies!
Just because Victoria had happy moments in her childhood doesn't mean she was exaggerating. It's normal to change our perceptions of our past as we develop nostalgia for it. The COVID pandemic lockdown showed us how hard it can be to be isolated. Imagine being raised excluded from the world, with every aspect of your life controlled and with virtually zero privacy. I would call that an unhappy childhood. Her happy memories look more like oasis in the desert to me.
The narrator is speaking in a version of received pronunciation (RP), sometimes called Queen's English. However, the Queen doesn't actually speak RP. She, and the rest of the royals, have a toff accent. RP us hardly natural. Very few English people naturally speak in RP. It's actually pretty rare.
I usually love the videos on real royalty. This one rubbed me the wrong way. Unless you have been raised by a narcissistic power hungry mom who ignores the psychological and emotional abuse both as Victoria’s mom and her boy toy Conroy. It took me 40 years to figure out how messed up my home of origin was. Did we go camping, have a pool, dogs, . . . Yes, would I have said I had a great childhood, yes, but I was also ABUSED. Child abuse is not funny, it wasn’t her being mean to her mom, it was a justified reaction to the batsh@$t crazy you grew up in. Also as a mom who deals with depression from my childhood and definitely hormones after didn’t help, your brushing it off as ‘King George III’s’ madness is insulting and will keep people from getting help when they go through something similar.
Unfortunately, we all know how society was back then. Talking 'bad' about your life or how you feel was a big NO NO and I have the feeling it still is today. Back then, saying your husband beat you or abused you was just hiden under the rug because "you're married so deal with it"
This is incredibly true. I also had a “happy childhood” but my mother was an abusive cunt who should’ve never had kids. I’m in my late 20’s and still dealing with the many repercussions of my childhood.
Oooh. The amount of Asian moms you all are going to vilify judging by your comments. In Asia, for as long as it's not physical, nobody will ever call it out as abusive.
Please note the sarcasm here* I "love" how a child having dolls and a dog to dress up in the backyard constitutes as a good childhood. When clearly her stepfather was bullying her and that just gets brushed aside because she had dolls and a dog!? 🙄
I don't think that was her stepfather - he was a fortune and power hunter with a strong influence on her mother. And her mother allowed this man to terrorize and control her. There is a nice movie about it relatively recent. .
Wild to see the way her abuse as a child is downplayed as her overreacting. Narcissists are great at playing the victim, it's obvious her mother was one. Victoria was clearly mourning the relationship she never had, much like happens to abuse victims today.
Victoria’s daughter Princess Alice is a great grandmother of Prince Philip Mountbatten , and Victoria’s son King Edward VII was the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth. That’s how the royal family rolled
Victoria was a woman of great appetites; she had an addictive personality. She was obsessed with Albert, with sex, and with food. She wasn't much of a mother, however. She hated being pregnant, and she saw no use in being involved with the upbringing of her children. She seldom gave a thought to what would make THEM happy; rather, she cared only for what they could do to make HER happy.
QV was involved in the upbringing of her children - but not as much before Albert's death as after - she was always interfering even well into their adult lives.
That's so sad, but maybe that's has anything to do with her upbringing I don't know much about the history but did her parents throw themselves into her childhood some parents do not doubt on their children and then some obsessively do
We have to remember that Queen Victoria's Mother (The Duchess of Kent) died 16 March 1861,and Prince Albert died 14 December 1861,that is enough to turn anyone's head.
A small anecdote:~ Victoria (aged 70) was dining with her household (approx 30 people).When someone was passing wind very loudly.She rose from the table and walked to an ante room(accompanied by her lady in waiting Lady Mallet)Later (when she had retired to bed) the whole household asked Lady Mallet,"Was the Queen very angry?" she said "No, all I could hear through the door were peals of laughter"
@@janedoe-yh4ok victoria was probably more pretty than you in her youth. Let's see how you age and come back and tell us in a few decades you don't have a saggy bulldog face
Yes and the way he suggests she was in a hormonal fog and her husband took on most affairs of state is a bit insulting. This entire documentary seems to only focus on her moods, how many children she had rather than her accomplishments in ruling a country.
@@CeaseEcho cutting down on incredibly powerful women is a long tradition in our world isn't it ... must make a lot of testicle wearing people feel more comfortable with their little selves. and it's always done by way of describing all those "moods and feelings" 🙄 rather tired sexist old sentiments. feelings and moods are only for women and therefore automatically inferior and disqualify you from leadership ....yawn
Wow, I find these fascinating. Her feelings for her husband and jealousy towards her children, is soo relatable and real. I can’t stop watching this, she was formidable but also so naive with men because she never knew her father. But her relationships with all the different men in her life is just so down to earth. When my home town ramsgate was shown and spoken of I felt a real sense of pride for this queen. Wow! Thankyou.
A wonderful documentary put together by thoughtful people. Very educational in a stimulating way. Looking forward to the next video on Victoria. The gentleman who is the presenter is quite splendid with a delightful accent that’s perfect. Thank you very much.
After hearing how she treated the Irish Potato Famine, I don’t have much respect for Queen Victoria. But alas she was brought up not knowing how to empathize. She treated her children terribly, not motherly at all and just overall seemed miserable, depressed snd uninterested in ruling a country.
I hope some of us here realised that, officials most of the time did not want to present the ugly truth to those at the top. Same like some sales executive would embellished their performance because they don't want to look bad. I believed that was what those men working for the Queen did, they didn't really present to her the reality of the situation. I could be wrong, but that is just how I assumed it to be.
I have always thought her a selfish,spiteful and in some ways very stupid woman. I doubt she had a single empathic bone in her body but constantly felt sorry for herself.
I am American so I really don't understand the monarchy. But I find this fascinating. Her diary's give us a glimmer into history. She was a woman before her time.
Thank goodness the King was such a great uncle to her & basically willed himself alive until hrh Victoria reached maturity. How different things would’ve turned out to be if he hadn’t been able to do that. Just bc 100% of your days growing up weren’t exactly drenched in misery doesn’t mean there was no abuse, bullying or maltreatment going on. Ppl, especially young girls, don’t just divorce/banish their mothers from their life @ the 1st possible opportunity for no reason. Some of these historians need to get a damn clue😤
I love reading and hearing about Queen Victoria. I find her multi- faceted and a mass of contradictions (just like me in fact) but ultimately a “real” person with kindness and empathy when needed Maybe I just feel she comes across as very real and did not put on a facade regarding who she was whether that be mother, friend, or in fact, Queen
Princess Vicky fell in love with Prince Fritz at first sight at 14, with an older man in a meeting engineered by her family? Sounds like the first meeting between our own 13 year old Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh engineered by their uncle Mountbatten
Absolutely! They are third cousins who are related to each other in three different ways. The only normal relationships in the British Royal Family, that have grown over a period of years , before marriage, are Prince William and Princess Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Edward and Sophie, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, aka Mr. and Mrs. Brooksbank. None of these three couples rushed into marriage. It seems that they took their time to get to know each other and to develop their relationship, before getting married. These royals all married in their late twenties or later, and they chose commoners their own age; equals, who were articulate, educated, and caring. Their spouses all came from intact families, with a mother and father, who had strong family values, who nurtured their children.
@@DeniseEggertwaterlily Kate (or rather Katherine) is not yet a Princess, she is a Duchess. She will become a Princess when William is declared Prince of Wales, this title which at the moment is held by Williams father, Prince Charles
If only Frederick III lived longer, how different might Germany and the western world have turned out? All that man wanted was for his nation to be peacefully united and a beacon of inspiration to the world. When you read on him, it's easy to see why Queen Victoria admired her son-in-law so much.
This was a common practice for royals. They would frequently take their children to events with the intent of having them meet a potential future spouse. The events of course were always royal balls, etc. where other royals and upper nobility would be. By the 1800s, they wouldn't get married at that age, but they could go ahead and start cementing the relationship with letters while the parents did the paperwork. Late teens and early 20s were standard marriage age, maybe slightly younger for non-reigning women. Marie Antoinette was 14 when she married. Prior centuries frequently had the marriages arranged shortly after birth, like Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's elder brother, Arthur.
@@britusman His not Generalizing the British but is talking about the Royal Family of Britain. IN SURE HIS REFERRING TO PRINCESS DIANA. She had everything but was very lonely and sad. So his trying to say that with that the British understands pain.
Queen Victoria's penmanship was so beautiful. I do not think the Queens journals should be public. These were her personal, private thought and feelings. Every part of her belonged to her country...these should not be public in life or death.💎
In A.N. Wilson's book he is rather strong in his belief she wasn't the daughter of her 'father', nor Albert of his, though he doesn't mention this here.
@@gubernatorial1723 She definitely IS her father's daughter. She looks just like him. He would have never been able to deny her. And, Albert was actually the son of his uncle.
Albert & Victoria was a great union & love story! He learned to let her be queen but found out how to be the man of the house & daddy. Queen Elizabeth's Prince was great at it also.
Albert "discovered" how to keep Victoria busy being pregnant so many times, which made it difficult for her to be in charge of her state affairs as a queen, and Albert was so competent, this gave him the opportunity to be in charge of most of the state affairs and get a more relevant position as the King behind Victoria
Great doc!... I think it's my 3rd time watching. Thanks for posting good quality, well produced documentaries. I actually knew most of what was presented, but I guess I never tire of excellent UK history! ~Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Being a future queen was not easy for a child to have such happy childhood. Adults hoped to control everything just to set them into the most powerful position as well So the only thing they must do was keeping her on their plans in every seconds. So I believe that little princess Vitoria had unhappy childhood as she wrote in her journal.
I love learning about the Royals too, just like so many other people. I’d have to say that by far Queen Victoria and Princess Diana are my absolute faves!
As someone who is going through this sort of thing right now. No. She had a terrible childhood. Her mother honestly sounds like mine. Yes she loved Victoria there's no doubt in my mind about that, but she did all the wrong things with that love. Conroy was an absolute asshole who bullied Victoria for her most of her childhood.
Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth has had a hand in making a portion of my work a little bit easier. ✨🌹✨ When unity and Love prevails, all of humanity prevails! ✨🌹✨
While Queen Elizabeth I was great, she said, "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." However, Queen Elizabeth II fought like a soldier during WW II, she is one of the bravest Queens to ever rule Great Britain. I think Queen Elizabeth II should be accorded the respect she deserves by President Joe Biden and President Macron of France -- Victor Isaac Alexander
I learned British Empire and Commonwealth in my History in Zimbabwe and this is why I’m interested to know more about history of the royals. I have developed a strong connection with the Royals and give myself to pray for them, I don’t know why? I can compare the connection with that of Prince Harry and Mutsu in Botswana. I watched the video and it resonated with my situation too here in Uk with the Royals. What I can say is “God works in us in such a mysterious way”. God Save the Queen. From Sarah Silas (Gumpo) from Zimbabwe.
The hosts clearly have no idea how cruel some women can be to their daughters. Once Victoria realized what had happened to her was NOT OKAY, she bailed. Her mother reaped what she sowed.
Thanks for the clarity of style and explanations. I’m really thrilled and interested, better than a film. Plus, finally an excellent English. Thank you
I'm sure Victoria was no different from most teenage girls who kept/keep diaries. I had one and there are tons of pages of how "abused" I felt, although reality was quite the opposite. I lived in a nice house with both parents and I had TONS of advantages. I was just selfish at the time. Victoria probably took her anger out on her mother because it was easy to do so.
@@lukey9220 That’s assuming you were wealthy enough to be educated in the first place as opposed to being sent to work at age 8. Most people could barely read.
I don't think that for a second the actual Queen Victoria would have seen herself as oppressed and used by her husband. This make a poor service to Prince Albert. A real diss-service.
You do Queen Victoria a disservice from ignoring the words said DIRECTLY by her in her letter. The romantic infatuation of a teenage girl are different from a married adult woman.
Modern women such as us can't really be looking through the eyes of women before us, as much as women back then were unable to see through our eyes. Victoria was in a position of privilege, she was more fortunate compare to her contemporaries. She wouldn't be seeing herself as being oppressed or used. It was more likely that she subconsciously used Albert for her insecurities as a result of her feeling of abandonment as a child.
@@rockthecasbah6450 it's funny how you say that she was in a position if privilege, that she couldn't see herself as oppressed, and then claim she used Alfred for her own insecurities she developed as a child. She had money but she was oppressed by her mother and she never failed to see that. Had she been or felt oppressed by Alfred, she would have said so. In fact, she complained about a whole lot of things, like getting pregnant. But at the same time she wanted to expand the power of the empire and she knew the best way to achieve that was to inundate the royal houses of Europe with her children. So yes, with objectivity we can look at the past. With feeble emotions and hypersensitivity we can warp the past to fit it to our modern delusions. She was not oppressed by Alfred. They loved each other and they had a family, and modern women just HATE that about women. Wanting to have a family, how dare she! She should have been more modern and not have had a single child and chosen she own pronouns, right? That's how she would please the "modern" women of today.
Queen Victoria was 3/4 German, married her German cousin, spoke flawless German, loved Germany and spending time there and in fits of rage or bad temper she would shout "You English" Victoria considered herself German and Germans today call her German.
I hate how they always portray Victoria as having a perfect English accent. She did not. She spoke German first and didn't start to learn English until she was 3, and had a pronounced German accent all her life. Inconvenient, isn't it?
Are you British ? Do you had history at school ? From George the 1. on they came from the Hannover line George the 3. was the first has spoken engl. Elisabeth 2. is from this line and prince Philip is half German
So, who was rouling the country while she was in a state of depression? Her ministers? Her first duty was to be a queen and look after the country she was entrusted, not a grieving wife.
Don't know when this documentary actually came out, but Queen Victoria's Great-Great-Great granddaughter, Elizabeth II, is now the longest reigning British Monarch
I had been watching your content several months ago and was slightly annoyed with the modern monarchs I’d been seeing. Digging a bit deeper, I’ve been enjoying your content due to the quarantine (for that case, in general anyway), but have been devouring it as of late. Thank you for putting it up. You’ll have your UA-cam Plaque in no time- only less than 20k to go! Truly great stuff, I sincerely thank you. Love & Light from Miami✨✌🏼 Stay safe🌎 Katherine
Why am I so interested in these history of the royals so much ??! Been binging for like a whole week now
Literally! Me too!
Maybe it's related to your past lives guys
(if u believe in that)
Me too!
To understand the future one must study the past.
Same here, its just so interesting
I work in a museum with many of Victoria’s letters, and I had to clean one (with a soft brush). If you have clean, dry hands you can usually hold paper fine. While transferring this letter from case to table I obviously had to hold it, and my right thumb was, for twenty seconds, (delicately) pressed against Queen Victoria’s signature.
Wow. I'm so jealous of you. That's basically my dream job. Do you have a degree in history or museum studies?
Charlotte Rawlins nope. I left school last July! No intention of going to uni, but I’ve been volunteering at the same place since 2018 and everyone there knows that I want to work there so they’re teaching me as much as they can. I have a different job onsite which also helps pay for things 😂
@@79135claudsthats awesome. That's the best scenario. When you're already at a place that trusts you and knows you take it serious. I can't wait until I get to see and handle genuine historical writings.
And your point?
redpilled supak um... I did something cool that I’m proud of being able to do??
If she says her childhood is sad, why don't they just believe her? At 18:40 the host keeps insisting she had a "happy childhood" depsite her mentioning her childhood was horrible and unhappy. This is probably one of the reasons why she likes to journal so much - because even if she tells someone about her unhappy childhood, they'll say "well, you're a princess and you've got everything you want and need so what's there to be unhappy about?" So sad.
Also, I really disagree with them calling Victoria a "callous daughter" at 34:36. How she treated her mother is a reflection of how her mother treated her. When she was so sick, her mother didn't show an ounce of concern for her, instead thought that she was faking it and colluded with an outsider for her to give up her rights. *That* is what I would call callous. And saying Victoria is callous for ignoring her is ridiculous. Her mother never seemed to care much for Victoria, instead using her as a pawn for political power. So why did she expect the same care to be given back to her? Idk why this documentary seems so intent on vilifying Victoria. Would be better if they just laid out what was said in her diary instead of interpreting it. We don't really need your interpretation. We can interpret it for ourselves.
I was thinking the same about her childhood. They are looking at the material things and not how her childhood was and how she was treated. She is telling how she felt and what her emotions were and they are saying she had pretty things so everything must be ok and she is just fabricating it all. As you said they should just tell the story and leave out their thoughts on what they think her life was like.
I came here to say the very same thing. They don’t believe her because they think a gilded cage + a puppy = happiness. The poor girl couldn’t move without at least her mother or the mother’s narcissistic boyfriend being with her. They treated her as a commodity, a golden goose. And the fact that Victoria’s assessment changes periodically is very characteristic of abused children. It’s called splitting. Even bad moms sometimes play good moms. When it’s convenient to them, of course.
I agree. She didn’t have normal parents. Didn’t her mothers boyfriend molest her? Sad childhood always searching for a father figure. 😢
Happy or not She was no Diana. Thousands of her subjects lived and died in squalor while wealth piled up higher than the ceiling. Fk them all
@@365kps2 Molest her?? Where did you hear that? She was never allowed to sleep alone, per the Kensington System, had a food taster, could not go down the stairs without holding someone else's hand, let alone could not be alone with a man without a chaperone. Her mother was afraid that she would have been poisoned or murdered in some other way, as her uncle was next in line to the throne. It is bc she was so angry that her mother controlled her life so much--in her opinion (until she would ascend the throne)--that she disliked her mother so much. Not because her mother was cruel to her.
Do you have daughters who have hit their teens yet?
I don’t think being so isolated makes for a happy childhood. Toys and a dog only does so much for socialization. I’m not a fan of how they made Victoria out to be exaggerating the situation.
they callde it the Kentsington System
Really? For a life that started over a 100 years folks didn’t “socialize” like we do today so I’m sure she was happy as a child and did not have a FMO. Good grief
Agreed. But everyone is going to have their own biased opinions about it.
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are u okay?
@@loveaubreyxo2357 bit so a nut job I think lol
The lady who is reading the letters and diary has the most beautiful, pleasant to the ear and calming voice I have ever heard.
I could listen to her reading for hours and hours 😊❤️
Yes, good narrator to me too
Anna Chancellor is her name, she’s a wonderful actress.
I recognized her from "Pride and Prejudice",the series starring Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie and (ooo!)Colin Firth as Mr.Darcy.Anna Chancellor played Mr.Bingley's unwed sister,Caroline.She does have a lovely speaking voice.I'm sure she's a much more pleasant person in real life than Caroline Bingley!
A member of her family described Queen Victoria herself as having a very pleasant speaking voice.
She is also related to Jane Austen.
It's wonderful to listen to someone that have deep knowledge of his subject, instead of the usual talking heads.
narrator: Britain’s longest reigning monarch.
Queen Elizabeth II: **laughs in immortal**
Queen Elizabeth almost passes King Louis
@Don Springstead The Queen mother was not Queen, her husband George V was King. Neither was she Queen Elizabeth 1st. Two different people.
Next year QEII will pass alot of the monarchs on the list of the longest reigning monarchs, where most of them are at the 70 yr marker...the longest being at 72 yrs....I think she's got that one in the bad as well....the woman is just unstoppable, just saw her in a video at an event the other day, walking about, chatting and not missing a beat....She's quite admirable
@@skeptical_sorcerer the original poster said QE2
@@skeptical_sorcerer grateful your educating these people about The Royals
Just because she played with toys and had a dog doesn't mean she was treated well as a child. Just saying.
Agree
Actually her early yrs up to 11 12 ish were good, she went to the theater 3 times a week & only had it bad from Conroy & his devilish plans for power as she was in her teens & ill, she later thought dreadfully of her mother but after she died Victoria found in moms house everything she'd worn from baby upwards with her mothers journals saying how much she loved Victoria, once bk at the Palace Victoria wrote of her knew found knowledge of her mothers deep love for her & she bemoaned that she'd treated her mum so badly from the moment she was Queen (at only 18) through to her mothers death. Changing how she felt of her mother after what she discovered how much her mother truly loved her.
@@tradingpost2472 I agree, but as someone who was raised with overbareing step parent. As Conroy was to her all without the title of step father. It sounds to me he made her life fairly miserable. Also the fact she had to sleep with her mom until 18? That's just controlling and odd. No wonder she later in life was so codependent on people. IE: Albert and then after his death her younger children. That was ingrained into in her adolescent years. Im.sure her life was great compared to normal life's at that time. But how they said in this documentary o well see she had a fun dog and played with dolls her life was nor as bad as she later claimed. Well everyone's life is based in ones perspective not always objective.
if i had toys and puppy as a child, id be happy as long as i dont see my narcissistic mother.
Shannon Flaherty let me guess? You have "anxiety and depression" right??
You were a victim of some random "abuse" right? how shocking lol. A whiny white woman complaining about her childhood. Grow up already and stop trying to play victim.
The woman who reads the Queen Victoria’s journal is very good! So sweet!
martha rezaee : Sorry I can not remember her name - “Duck Face” from “Four Funerals and a Wedding”.
@@OnaMuir Anna Chancellor. I love her voice!!
And yet another hired royal brown nose......
@@OnaMuir She reminds me of Suzan Sarandon! :)
She is British actress Anna Chancellor.
Just because a person is well off and has many things doesnt mean they had a good childhood. And good moments in childhood do not negate pain and trauma. I can identify with Voctoria in many ways - although i am not fabulously wealthy or a royal.
Sadly, me, too! Violence, poverty & abuse. Thank God for my Bostonian Mother, who was my savior. I was the youngest, so, I didn't have it as bad as my 5 older siblings. JC, what are parents (father) thinking taking THEIR misery out on their gifts from God? Sadly, "parenting" is still trying to cope.
I am an only child. My childhood was lonely. My parents worked 7 days a week come home when I am sleeping. I just have school, tutors and summer school otherwise I am at home alone. I used to cry a lot at school. People thought I was spoiled middle class girl when they don't know at my grandparent's home (they live 5 minutes walk from my parent's) I have witness my drug addicted uncle having those violent moments. My parents fighting because my school marks.
@@phyllisneal8687 was
U can related even if U not a wealthy royal just cus at the end all come down to all being human beings
Of course you're not a Royal or fabulously wealthy who in the hell is this b******* half of it you can't believe and the other half you can just imagine. Anybody can relate to a physical and mental abuse and it makes you no special that you do. And a lot of this year you can't believe I fail to see where people are expertise and giving us this information and I'm tired of reading it I don't do it anymore
The film ‘the young Victoria’ gives a fantastic account of all this! Very underrated and highly accurate in many ways!
I am Mexican American and it is one of my biggest dreams to travel and visit historic sites throughout Europe. The castle’s, scenery, food, and museums, I want to experience it all.
I hope your dream comes true.
They all have such a magnificent cursive hand writing
How many people now know the word "stationery"? ---- I will keep some hand-written letters from family members. My uncle had perfect penmanship. I can remember their personalities when I see these letters.
Yes it was beautiful and it was taught in school I write cursive my mother writes cursive she's 89 they don't teach it in school anymore some people can't even read it that's unfathomable to me I am a lefty but I see almost everyone clutching a pen or pencil like it's going to escape them I don't know how they can write anything like that accept block grant maybe we were taught to delicately our fingers at a certain angle on our pencil and we were graded for it we had a class in elementary school and it was called handwriting
@@judahtribe7 I’m 21 and they still taught us how to write cursive back when I was in primary. It’s Americans that don’t write cursive anymore
@@judahtribe7 in my country Dominican Republic, they still write in cursive in schools, i grew up writing cursive until i moved to the US, i’m not as good as i used to be, i am also a lefty :-)!
@@judahtribe7 They do still do teach it
No longer the longest reigning monarch. Queen Elizabeth holds that distinction now. ❤❤❤❤
Queen Elizabeth the second you’re thinking of
@@angelcitygirl well queen Elizabeth would be queen Elizabeth the first and that’s who you said
@@angelcitygirl Henry the 8th was her father
@@angelcitygirl queen Elizabeth wasn’t the longest reigning monarch, queen Elizabeth the second was.
@@bobsmith3291 but she was
Love these documentaries - wittily presented, informative, fun, insightful. Bravo!
Entertaining host.
In Ireland Victoria is known as the "Famine queen" the irish famine started 1845 - 1852 and while the English might think her great, the Irish view her a lot differently.
Millions evicted, million emigrated and over a million died as a result of the Famine.
There are memorials in most towns in Ireland to the devastating effects of the Famine which happen in what was a province of Great Britain at that time.
Help was offered by Ottoman sultan with aid on three ships one of the ships got through into Dundalk by breaking a blockade and as a result, Drogheda football team have as part of there club crest a crescent moon in recognition.
The Turks also offered 10,000 pounds but British civil servants said "that that was too much and could be embarrassing for queen Victoria and 1000 would be better as it was less than her 2000 pounds.
American choctaw Indian tribe sent 200 dollars in aid, a sizable sum at the time and is acknowledged even today by the Irish people.
While Victoria may have been insulated by her government civil servants from the happenings in Ireland at this time she was queen of what was at that time a wealthiest and massive empire well capable of helping its people on literally its doorstep.
Nobody is perfect and Victoria is just a person born into privilege with so called title and could have done more by careing more for the people of Ireland better.
In the early 2000's Tony Blair acknowledged the failure of the British government at that time to ease the suffering of the Irish and apologized.
This act of apology was well received in Ireland.
We in Scotland don't feel too good about the old cow either. (Sorry, cows) I despise the monarchy in general. So she had an unhappy childhood? So what? Lots more worthy people had bad childhoods too.
Famines, atrocities, mass scale loot, genocide, destruction of indigenous culture & even slavery persisted despite new rules.. that's the harsh reality of English Colonial rule in all their colonies. They most likely killed more people than Hitler ever did
are naive ? famine purposely implemented.
@@tyc1Z.Z1 exactly. nothing to do with spanish ways.
oh well we Indian's feel the same way. This title "Famine Queen" is so relevant that present British royalty should consider bestowing it on her posthumously. All that victorian successful industrialization was the fruit of hideous extortion, stealing from vast countries which they conquered with just manipulation. One of her idiot viceroy threw a Delhi Darbar to just give her title 'empress' when half of the country was suffering through it's severe drought and epidemic.
Her daughter edited her diaries? All the good stuff is gone then...
Well Queen V wrote a lot of letters that the have,which seems to be where the bulk of this documentary is based of, on top of the diary she left.
You fuckin know it
by the looks of the daughter,that surely is the case.
I think her daughter only really edited the parts where Victoria spoke badly about her family
I heard the diaries are only 1/3 of the original :(
This Royal documentaries are so addictive. I can't stop watching them.
True. For days now. I have been in them. Not stopping soon. Very interesting
funny how Victoria and King Christian of Denmark both became the grandparents of European royalty. The interconnectedness of all the European royal families continues until today.
It gets even wilder when you learn that Sweden's current royal family is descended from one of Napoleon's marshals!
@@thunderbird1921 and the Swedish and British families are connected through King Carl XVl Gustaf who is Queen Victorias great great grandson....
May I present to you the Hapsburgs
They always married into other European countries it’s been done for hundreds and hundreds of years.
That's why they're so damn weird.
Thank you so much for this channel. I can’t get enough monarch history.
Same here
me too
Victoria: I had a unhappy childhood.
People who never knew her, speaking for a TV show: Victoria had a happy childhood.
Victoria: Who the F**k are these people?
Yeah it's a bit too much to make careless judgements like this... seems rather unprofessional too
Exactly 😠
Not even queens are free of their feelings being dismissed by a man who thinks he knows better. Tale old as time
I think Princess Beatrice looks like Queen Victoria. Those huge eyes. She could play the part of the Queen.
Elva Rodriguez Rodriguez Beatrice was in the film, "Young Victoria", (Emily Blunt as Young Vicky) she was first or second in the line of Maids of Honor, at the very start of the film. If you don't pay attention or blink, you'll miss her.
Actually she looks like victorias daugher beatrice.
winnie su Coincidentally with the same name😁
I think so too .
Born 8-8-88, she does look Victori-ish.
The presenter standing next to tree, travelling in train ,mimicking Victorias mother is so funny 🤣
Yeh some if it was mocking seemed
I was looking for this comment xD
I think he sounds like an idiot
Victoria LOVED Albert with a passion! Oh to get my hands on the original diaries!!
she didn't know any other man and she was so unattractive she had good reason to be jealous!
They were cousins
When she became Queen, Victoria was really a naive young woman and Queen ...however she fought her mother’s choice in Albert for quite a time ... but I believe her hormones and romantic love ideas got the best of her holding off an early marriage.;) but she grew up real quickly after her first few back to back babies!
That's my dream
@@janedoe-yh4ok She was actually kind of pretty.
Just because Victoria had happy moments in her childhood doesn't mean she was exaggerating. It's normal to change our perceptions of our past as we develop nostalgia for it. The COVID pandemic lockdown showed us how hard it can be to be isolated. Imagine being raised excluded from the world, with every aspect of your life controlled and with virtually zero privacy. I would call that an unhappy childhood. Her happy memories look more like oasis in the desert to me.
The accent is a natural one. He is speaking the Queen’s English.
It's a nice accent.
The narrator is speaking in a version of received pronunciation (RP), sometimes called Queen's English. However, the Queen doesn't actually speak RP. She, and the rest of the royals, have a toff accent. RP us hardly natural. Very few English people naturally speak in RP. It's actually pretty rare.
'' oh i say ''
There is nothing natural about that accent, it is an entirely affected one.
That hint of "can't be bothered" is uncanny.
I usually love the videos on real royalty. This one rubbed me the wrong way. Unless you have been raised by a narcissistic power hungry mom who ignores the psychological and emotional abuse both as Victoria’s mom and her boy toy Conroy. It took me 40 years to figure out how messed up my home of origin was. Did we go camping, have a pool, dogs, . . . Yes, would I have said I had a great childhood, yes, but I was also ABUSED. Child abuse is not funny, it wasn’t her being mean to her mom, it was a justified reaction to the batsh@$t crazy you grew up in. Also as a mom who deals with depression from my childhood and definitely hormones after didn’t help, your brushing it off as ‘King George III’s’ madness is insulting and will keep people from getting help when they go through something similar.
Unfortunately, we all know how society was back then. Talking 'bad' about your life or how you feel was a big NO NO and I have the feeling it still is today.
Back then, saying your husband beat you or abused you was just hiden under the rug because "you're married so deal with it"
This is incredibly true. I also had a “happy childhood” but my mother was an abusive cunt who should’ve never had kids. I’m in my late 20’s and still dealing with the many repercussions of my childhood.
Richard E. Miranda Jr. woah look at you Mr. hard ass, you’re what’s wrong with the world 😀
Oooh. The amount of Asian moms you all are going to vilify judging by your comments. In Asia, for as long as it's not physical, nobody will ever call it out as abusive.
Hey I call my mom The Great Invalidator!!! Thank gosh she's gone.
Please note the sarcasm here* I "love" how a child having dolls and a dog to dress up in the backyard constitutes as a good childhood. When clearly her stepfather was bullying her and that just gets brushed aside because she had dolls and a dog!? 🙄
I don't think that was her stepfather - he was a fortune and power hunter with a strong influence on her mother. And her mother allowed this man to terrorize and control her. There is a nice movie about it relatively recent.
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It's a bit confusing to see such an antiquated mindset on a TV show like this..... Didn't we get past that like in the 90s 👀
Wild to see the way her abuse as a child is downplayed as her overreacting. Narcissists are great at playing the victim, it's obvious her mother was one. Victoria was clearly mourning the relationship she never had, much like happens to abuse victims today.
Hear hear
Exactly this. When my parents die I will be upset but that will be me mourning what I never had and never will..good parents and a happy childhood.
Elizabeth II is now longest reigning monarch!
Right
Captain Obvious
So sad...
Victoria’s daughter Princess Alice is a great grandmother of Prince Philip Mountbatten , and Victoria’s son King Edward VII was the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth. That’s how the royal family rolled
Victoria was a woman of great appetites; she had an addictive personality. She was obsessed with Albert, with sex, and with food. She wasn't much of a mother, however. She hated being pregnant, and she saw no use in being involved with the upbringing of her children. She seldom gave a thought to what would make THEM happy; rather, she cared only for what they could do to make HER happy.
QV was involved in the upbringing of her children - but not as much before Albert's death as after - she was always interfering even well into their adult lives.
That's so sad, but maybe that's has anything to do with her upbringing I don't know much about the history but did her parents throw themselves into her childhood some parents do not doubt on their children and then some obsessively do
We have to remember that Queen Victoria's Mother (The Duchess of Kent) died 16 March 1861,and Prince Albert died 14 December 1861,that is enough to turn anyone's head.
above all, for a person as emotionally dependent as Victoria...
Vicky turned to the bottle! She was drunk every morning!
This can be seen in her handwriting!
Bless her,after all she had been through!
A small anecdote:~
Victoria (aged 70) was dining with her household (approx 30 people).When someone was passing wind very loudly.She rose from the table and walked to an ante room(accompanied by her lady in waiting Lady Mallet)Later (when she had retired to bed) the whole household asked Lady Mallet,"Was the Queen very angry?" she said "No, all I could hear through the door were peals of laughter"
Well, longest-reigning monarch before Queen Elizabeth II. This must be an old video.
2014
I thought the same thing.
Yep, the old record has now been broken.
And it keeps going
Victoria: 14 is a tad young...
Man: Victoria was frightfully jealous
@@janedoe-yh4ok I am so sorry you think that but I do not believe that your thoughts requires three comments!
@@janedoe-yh4ok victoria was probably more pretty than you in her youth. Let's see how you age and come back and tell us in a few decades you don't have a saggy bulldog face
Yes and the way he suggests she was in a hormonal fog and her husband took on most affairs of state is a bit insulting. This entire documentary seems to only focus on her moods, how many children she had rather than her accomplishments in ruling a country.
@@CeaseEcho cutting down on incredibly powerful women is a long tradition in our world isn't it
... must make a lot of testicle wearing people feel more comfortable with their little selves. and it's always done by way of describing all those "moods and feelings" 🙄 rather tired sexist old sentiments. feelings and moods are only for women and therefore automatically inferior and disqualify you from leadership ....yawn
NO SA NU FI INVIDIOASA CA FIECARE AVEM DREPTURI SI OBLIGATI .
Wow, I find these fascinating. Her feelings for her husband and jealousy towards her children, is soo relatable and real. I can’t stop watching this, she was formidable but also so naive with men because she never knew her father. But her relationships with all the different men in her life is just so down to earth. When my home town ramsgate was shown and spoken of I felt a real sense of pride for this queen. Wow! Thankyou.
Just because someone loves you doesn't mean the relationship is necessarily worth it.
That’s not very good advice.
If someone loves you, truly loves you, then you know that every last moment spent with them is worth more than anything.
I believe Albert was a covert narcissist starting from his childhood if you understand the personality.
There was no cell phones and money and power would buy you privacy
@@someonenotfunny9823 Only if you love them back.
@@MegCazalet why wouldnt you?
She probably outed everybody for what they really were!
A wonderful documentary put together by thoughtful people. Very educational in a stimulating way. Looking forward to the next video on Victoria.
The gentleman who is the presenter is quite splendid with a delightful accent that’s perfect.
Thank you very much.
No, he is creepy and gross
I agree. I like the presenter a lot. He's very good and I love his accent.
Ignore Jo ble. It's probably some dumb 12 yr old.
@@joble6665 is it because he is British?
The current Princess Beatrice looks so much like her it is uncanny. Their profiles are identical.
Haha, how on earth?
Its almost like shes her great grandmother
@@terrorgaming459 great great great great grandma
No she doesn’t
@@ce1834 Nasty aren’t we?
I think her relationship with her mother affected her maternal instincts to her own children.
After hearing how she treated the Irish Potato Famine, I don’t have much respect for Queen Victoria. But alas she was brought up not knowing how to empathize. She treated her children terribly, not motherly at all and just overall seemed miserable, depressed snd uninterested in ruling a country.
I know, As an Irish Woman who definatley had ansestors who survived the famine, its heartbreaking.
I hope some of us here realised that, officials most of the time did not want to present the ugly truth to those at the top. Same like some sales executive would embellished their performance because they don't want to look bad. I believed that was what those men working for the Queen did, they didn't really present to her the reality of the situation. I could be wrong, but that is just how I assumed it to be.
There is a lot of rebellion against the monarchy from inside. Not a happy place.
Millions died of hunger 😢 SMH
I have always thought her a selfish,spiteful and in some ways very stupid woman. I doubt she had a single empathic bone in her body but constantly felt sorry for herself.
I am American so I really don't understand the monarchy. But I find this fascinating. Her diary's give us a glimmer into history. She was a woman before her time.
Such an endearing reading of a queen's passionate life! Thank you, Mr. A.N. Wilson
Thank goodness the King was such a great uncle to her & basically willed himself alive until hrh Victoria reached maturity. How different things would’ve turned out to be if he hadn’t been able to do that.
Just bc 100% of your days growing up weren’t exactly drenched in misery doesn’t mean there was no abuse, bullying or maltreatment going on. Ppl, especially young girls, don’t just divorce/banish their mothers from their life @ the 1st possible opportunity for no reason. Some of these historians need to get a damn clue😤
This narrator doing the absolute most with those impersonations! XD
That German accent was something else 🤣
Pablo who dances for the Cuban ballet
Dd
Lmao 😂
She was NOT a callous daughter she was neglected by her mother. Toxic is toxic and she treated her accordingly!
She became callous towards her mother due to her treatment, I think that’s fair to say
I love reading and hearing about Queen Victoria. I find her multi- faceted and a mass of contradictions (just like me in fact) but ultimately a “real” person with kindness and empathy when needed
Maybe I just feel she comes across as very real and did not put on a facade regarding who she was whether that be mother, friend, or in fact, Queen
Princess Vicky fell in love with Prince Fritz at first sight at 14, with an older man in a meeting engineered by her family? Sounds like the first meeting between our own 13 year old Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh engineered by their uncle Mountbatten
Absolutely! They are third cousins who are related to each other in three different ways. The only normal relationships in the British Royal Family, that have grown over a period of years , before marriage, are Prince William and Princess Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Edward and Sophie, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, aka Mr. and Mrs. Brooksbank. None of these three couples rushed into marriage. It seems that they took their time to get to know each other and to develop their relationship, before getting married. These royals all married in their late twenties or later, and they chose commoners their own age; equals, who were articulate, educated, and caring. Their spouses all came from intact families, with a mother and father, who had strong family values, who nurtured their children.
@@DeniseEggertwaterlily Kate (or rather Katherine) is not yet a Princess, she is a Duchess. She will become a Princess when William is declared Prince of Wales, this title which at the moment is held by Williams father, Prince Charles
No wonder Andrew has a predilection for young girls, being a stot-the-baw seems to be the norm in that family.
If only Frederick III lived longer, how different might Germany and the western world have turned out? All that man wanted was for his nation to be peacefully united and a beacon of inspiration to the world. When you read on him, it's easy to see why Queen Victoria admired her son-in-law so much.
This was a common practice for royals. They would frequently take their children to events with the intent of having them meet a potential future spouse. The events of course were always royal balls, etc. where other royals and upper nobility would be. By the 1800s, they wouldn't get married at that age, but they could go ahead and start cementing the relationship with letters while the parents did the paperwork. Late teens and early 20s were standard marriage age, maybe slightly younger for non-reigning women. Marie Antoinette was 14 when she married. Prior centuries frequently had the marriages arranged shortly after birth, like Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's elder brother, Arthur.
Having "things" doesn't equate happiness. The English should have an understanding of this by now.
what does having things equate to English heritage...................dont u mean "rich people worldwide."
@@britusman His not Generalizing the British but is talking about the Royal Family of Britain. IN SURE HIS REFERRING TO PRINCESS DIANA. She had everything but was very lonely and sad. So his trying to say that with that the British understands pain.
It feels good to not to be part of royalty
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It's feels not good to be a part of a family living on looting others inspite of being exposed??
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@@catalinstoica6919 pp
Yy
Queen Victoria's penmanship was so beautiful. I do not think the Queens journals should be public. These were her personal, private thought and feelings. Every part of her belonged to her country...these should not be public in life or death.💎
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How are you doing ?
Nowadays the second longest-reigning monarch after Queen Elisabeth II.
No such person as ElizabethII - not in Britain anyway....
How amazing to get a first hand account of everything that happened in her life and her mind through her writings
Victorias mother was so beautiful. But, she didn't inherit her mothers beauty. She looked exactly like her father down to the down turned nose.
Victoria looked just like her father and paternal grandfather...rather unfortunate.
In A.N. Wilson's book he is rather strong in his belief she wasn't the daughter of her 'father', nor Albert of his, though he doesn't mention this here.
@@gubernatorial1723 She definitely IS her father's daughter. She looks just like him. He would have never been able to deny her. And, Albert was actually the son of his uncle.
@@louse_mouse They have the type of family that goes to a family reunion looking for a date! LOL
Damn. The world really is shallow.
Albert & Victoria was a great union & love story! He learned to let her be queen but found out how to be the man of the house & daddy. Queen Elizabeth's Prince was great at it also.
Albert "discovered" how to keep Victoria busy being pregnant so many times, which made it difficult for her to be in charge of her state affairs as a queen, and Albert was so competent, this gave him the opportunity to be in charge of most of the state affairs and get a more relevant position as the King behind Victoria
The current Queen has lived through ten times more than Queen Victoria ever did
Great doc!... I think it's my 3rd time watching. Thanks for posting good quality, well produced documentaries. I actually knew most of what was presented, but I guess I never tire of excellent UK history! ~Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
She had a lot growing up to do as a teenage queen.
Being a future queen was not easy for a child to have such happy childhood. Adults hoped to control everything just to set them into the most powerful position as well So the only thing they must do was keeping her on their plans in every seconds.
So I believe that little princess Vitoria had unhappy childhood as she wrote in her journal.
Just because you have good parts of childhood does not mean you had a good childhood at all. Sometimes a storm has calmness but its still a storm.
well written.
I love learning about the Royals too, just like so many other people. I’d have to say that by far Queen Victoria and Princess Diana are my absolute faves!
As someone who is going through this sort of thing right now. No. She had a terrible childhood. Her mother honestly sounds like mine. Yes she loved Victoria there's no doubt in my mind about that, but she did all the wrong things with that love. Conroy was an absolute asshole who bullied Victoria for her most of her childhood.
Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth has had a hand in making a portion of my work a little bit easier. ✨🌹✨ When unity and Love prevails, all of humanity prevails! ✨🌹✨
in a biography of queen mary, it states that she herself was born in the same rooms as Victoria.
While Queen Elizabeth I was great, she said, "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." However, Queen Elizabeth II fought like a soldier during WW II, she is one of the bravest Queens to ever rule Great Britain. I think Queen Elizabeth II should be accorded the respect she deserves by President Joe Biden and President Macron of France -- Victor Isaac Alexander
Me too. But one can only give as much respect as one has himself…
14 and 23, God! Of course she ' loved ' him, a child she still was.
How revealing and beautiful. Thank you for this upload
My mother adored me and at the same time was abusive. I’m not listening to anymore of what this guy has to say.
Stfu
That impersonation at 34:40 though 😂😂😂
Exciting documentary!!! Longing for the second part.
Me too.
I agree .
I learned British Empire and Commonwealth in my History in Zimbabwe and this is why I’m interested to know more about history of the royals. I have developed a strong connection with the Royals and give myself to pray for them, I don’t know why? I can compare the connection with that of Prince Harry and Mutsu in Botswana. I watched the video and it resonated with my situation too here in Uk with the Royals. What I can say is “God works in us in such a mysterious way”. God Save the Queen. From Sarah Silas (Gumpo) from Zimbabwe.
How is your Country doing?
Almost all of the
royals of Europe
are related.
The hosts clearly have no idea how cruel some women can be to their daughters. Once Victoria realized what had happened to her was NOT OKAY, she bailed. Her mother reaped what she sowed.
Thanks for the clarity of style and explanations. I’m really thrilled and interested, better than a film. Plus, finally an excellent English. Thank you
I can see a lot of Queen Victoria in Princess Beatrice.
That was good Janine, worrying but good, & thought provoking.
An absolutely beautiful telling. More please❤️
I'm sure Victoria was no different from most teenage girls who kept/keep diaries. I had one and there are tons of pages of how "abused" I felt, although reality was quite the opposite. I lived in a nice house with both parents and I had TONS of advantages. I was just selfish at the time. Victoria probably took her anger out on her mother because it was easy to do so.
Amazing how much more educated we were before TV and UA-cam.
How????
after
Did you learn that while watching this UA-cam video? Ironic.
@@lukey9220 That’s assuming you were wealthy enough to be educated in the first place as opposed to being sent to work at age 8. Most people could barely read.
@@lukey9220 This documentary is pretty similar to what you can read in books about her. It is very good actually.
I love the people whom spoke in this documentary.. They are so expressive.
I don't think that for a second the actual Queen Victoria would have seen herself as oppressed and used by her husband. This make a poor service to Prince Albert. A real diss-service.
You do Queen Victoria a disservice from ignoring the words said DIRECTLY by her in her letter. The romantic infatuation of a teenage girl are different from a married adult woman.
Albert truly loved her he supported her
@Cathy Bradley no Albert never limited her, she was sexually free with albert, the arguing is normal
Modern women such as us can't really be looking through the eyes of women before us, as much as women back then were unable to see through our eyes. Victoria was in a position of privilege, she was more fortunate compare to her contemporaries. She wouldn't be seeing herself as being oppressed or used. It was more likely that she subconsciously used Albert for her insecurities as a result of her feeling of abandonment as a child.
@@rockthecasbah6450 it's funny how you say that she was in a position if privilege, that she couldn't see herself as oppressed, and then claim she used Alfred for her own insecurities she developed as a child. She had money but she was oppressed by her mother and she never failed to see that. Had she been or felt oppressed by Alfred, she would have said so. In fact, she complained about a whole lot of things, like getting pregnant. But at the same time she wanted to expand the power of the empire and she knew the best way to achieve that was to inundate the royal houses of Europe with her children. So yes, with objectivity we can look at the past. With feeble emotions and hypersensitivity we can warp the past to fit it to our modern delusions. She was not oppressed by Alfred. They loved each other and they had a family, and modern women just HATE that about women. Wanting to have a family, how dare she! She should have been more modern and not have had a single child and chosen she own pronouns, right? That's how she would please the "modern" women of today.
Queen Victoria was 3/4 German, married her German cousin, spoke flawless German, loved Germany and spending time there and in fits of rage or bad temper she would shout "You English" Victoria considered herself German and Germans today call her German.
Yes, where are the natives of Britain, the True heirs of Albion.
I am so interested to read and know the history of Royals. Very interesting and simply beautiful. 🌷🌷🌷🌷
I hate how they always portray Victoria as having a perfect English accent. She did not. She spoke German first and didn't start to learn English until she was 3, and had a pronounced German accent all her life. Inconvenient, isn't it?
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Frank Bray until the Queen Mary, German accents ruled the family.
Are you British ?
Do you had history at school ?
From George the 1. on they came from the Hannover line
George the 3. was the first has spoken engl.
Elisabeth 2. is from this line and prince Philip is half German
@@um9272 her governess was Prussian and her mom was German...the 2 main people she spent the first 18 years of her life with.
Yes German, not British.
Incredible documentary. RIP to Deirdre Murphy
Thank you so much for this wonderful historical experience ... so interesting snd enjoyable!
God Bless our Beautiful Queen ! It will be a sad day when God takes her home ,I was just telling my daughter . ❤️🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦
So, who was rouling the country while she was in a state of depression? Her ministers? Her first duty was to be a queen and look after the country she was entrusted, not a grieving wife.
this guy is the mvp. He's going hard with the accents. Really brings the different individuals alive.
Sounds like Victoria was in a Narcissistic/Empathic marriage
Don't know when this documentary actually came out, but Queen Victoria's Great-Great-Great granddaughter, Elizabeth II, is now the longest reigning British Monarch
It first aired in 2014. ; )
You want your money back?
Indeed
You want all documentaries made before to make a special edit?
Come on now.
Let it go.
@@dawnchristensen7492 No, of course not. Those documentaries were fine for their time. But time goes on and statistics change. That is all.
Victoria is not the longest reigning monarch any longer. This must have been made prior to 2015.
Great way to fill in the gaps, so to speak. Woe to these ones
Princess Beatrice is the spitting image of the young Queen Victoria!
I so enjoy watching you, when I can send a tip I will. Keep up the good work
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Not a word regarding her role in the Irish famine
When he turned 70, I asked my grandpa that same question. He was not amused. When he turned 80, I asked it again and laughed his head off.
I had been watching your content several months ago and was slightly annoyed with the modern monarchs I’d been seeing.
Digging a bit deeper, I’ve been enjoying your content due to the quarantine (for that case, in general anyway), but have been devouring it as of late.
Thank you for putting it up.
You’ll have your UA-cam Plaque in no time- only less than 20k to go!
Truly great stuff, I sincerely thank you.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thankyou 💖
Why does everyone think that Queen Vic. would have been their friend? WHAT?