If you are concerned that I said "the children of Victoria and Edward" I'm speaking of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert's grandchildren who were the children of their two eldest children Victoria, Empress of Germany and of King Edward VII of the UK. Thanks to those who pointed this out to others 😉
@@veronicaalvarez5754 oh no sweetie, they weren't. Guess I just watched another one of her shows about something else. I thot it was but anyways.... My bad. No. Her 1 of 3 parts is just a 1 out of 1 looks like. Sorry
I mean my grandma has just 16 grandkids. But adding in the great grands and great great grands (and maybe a great great great grand or two) and we have almost 60 from 7 kids. I’m the youngest of the 16 grands
Victoria and Albert were both mostly German and he was raised as a German Prince. Several of the kids married German princes and princesses because they had so many principalities there there was a lot of German Royals given the circumstances it's probably not surprising. In 1918 the German royalty was abolished, but when the Nazis came in and took over a lot of the German princes thought that this would bring a new resurgence a German royalty and some of them signed on with Hitler
Of course, but everything else in Germany was going Republic oh, so some of the monarchy did think that was a dictator there might be a foot in the door for royalty again. In Austria they knew better. The children of Franz Ferdinand and archduchess Sophie campaigned against Hitler and weld up in concentration camps for it. They survived the war but it did shorten their lives considerably
@@ladyagnes7781 do you have proof of this as reference somewhere to find, as basis to how as far what you are alleging the bane of Franz Ferdinand "Adolph Hitler & S.S." had Franz Ferdinand's offspring locked up in Kampfs, curious as too how long they lived for afterwards, of where did this 'sit-in' occurence happen? (Silly \\Ghasse// Minds_)
Yep. And her and the kids were responsible for WW1 and the millions of casualties. Relatives of hers (mostly placed by her) sat on the thrones of something like 10 European countries at the outbreak of the war.
I like how this video covers psychological aspect and the nature of relationship between parents and children , how traumas passes from mothers to children. It just proves that money does not garantee happiness
What does money have to do anything with this ? They’re royals, the amount of duties weighed on them and expectations EVEN WORSE OF ALL reputations really took a toll on mothers. Keep in Mind the everyone married really young especially girls. So of course they weren’t psychologically prepared and with the pressure from all the envious people MANY many royals cracked. Money however I think was the least of their problems.you can have a lovely family, great environment and still be a millionaire.
I don’t understand why people with money are directly inlisted as ungrateful or horrible snobs. It’s not like that, you can be happy whether you have money or not. It’s not money that measures happiness, it’s YOU. When these young moms tried to do what they thought was right they were shunned, talked about, humiliated and who knows what else. Their parents mostly didn’t care about them, and they were left to fend of their in-laws at like what 14 or even 15. So obviously they’re going to live horribly and not realize the neglect they applied to their children.
Those aren’t paintings lol. They’re actual photographs. Photography was already around at this time lol. They didn’t need painters and portraits for the royal photos anymore starting in 1826. Queen Victoria wasn’t even the Queen yet in that year lol.
The ones who entered into incestuous marriages young like she wanted them to were obviously gonna have a worse time, and the turn of the century was a bad time to be staunchly conservative like Victoria was, especially when you’re a royal
@@andrepettersson175 Thank you for sharing that. I really enjoyed it, and learned things I hadn't known before, for all my devouring of this type of subject matter. For those interested, here is part 2: dai.ly/x1mx9pn
@@ehrichan6726 what do you mean executed? If you are reffering to the revolution in Germany you should know that 50% of Germans supported the monarchy still... its one of the reasons Hitler gained so much power in the early days beacuse he promised to restore it.
While George V was relatively dull for a monarch, he did have one rather eccentric hobby; moth hunting. He was a crack shot for pheasant hunting, but sometimes he'd wake up in the night, light a candle, and wait for moths to gather around it while aiming a miniature shotgun about the size of a matchbox.
me too 😭 but also obviously the said family tree is basically some of the most important people for modern history and greatly affected recent history (to say the least)
@Sam Bacon There is an interesting story about Rasputin in which he prophesied that he would be murdered. He told the Czar that if he was murdered by a peasant, then the dynasty would go on to rule another one hundred years. But if he was murdered by a member of the aristocracy the Czar would lose his throne within a year after his murder. He was of course murdered by aristocrats led by Prince Felix Yousoupoff, a nephew by marriage of the Czar. And the Czar did of course abdicate not long afterward.
Red Don’t be too surprised lol. Incest was extremely common among royals in history. Because they were royal, they could only make a royal marriage. They weren’t allowed to marry a commoner. There were only so many royal families. Eventually they were all related lol. The Ancient Egyptians were even crazier about marriage. They always married a sibling or some other direct relative, because they thought that doing so would keep their royal bloodline “pure”. Of course, all it really did was deform their children and create psychotic rulers.
Victoria and Albert themselves were first cousins. In fact Queen Victoria tried to get her granddaughter Alix to marry Albert Victor who was Edwards eldest. She told her grandmother she loves him as a cousin but not as a husband and she went on to marry Nicholas II of Russia. Queen Victoria was very famous for trying to get her grandchildren to marry each other
Got so intrested in the history of the royals..& can't stop looking for more. Now I know where Andrew, Harry and Margaret got their grove on, it runs in the family.
Amazingly, there was life before Harry Potter. But at least we don't have to live in it! No cousin marrying either. Ugghh my first cousins are fat, lazy boys with hair to their bottoms and yes, chain smokers! So much no.
Queen Mary stole stuff all the time! If she wasn’t able to just take it, she’d hint to the owner of whatever she wanted that she had something at home that matches it or whatever, until they just gave it to her 😂
Queen Mary was anything BUT a kleptomaniac. During the reigns of George IV up to Edward VII, many items in the royal collection were loaned to noble families across the country. Queen Mary was interested in the history of the royal collection. When her husband, George V came to the throne, it is said she went through all the old inventories and discovered that many items that have previously been put on loan have not been returned to the royal collection. She simply demanded theses items be returned.
I laughed at Mary of Tek.... A notorious Kleptomaniac...... Aw-oh count the silverware then hide them, here comes that theiving crackhead Mary again! 😂
We all know Waldemar wanted the crocodille to eat the old lizzard. Fun thing, they also claim that queen Ingrid the mother of the current Danish queen suffered from Kleptomania in her old age. Stories are that the family would have a servant trailing her, paying for everything she nicked.
I am still finishing it. I think that the episode where we see Prince Charles is very heartbreaking, taking into account that there is also another episode of him in his traumatic childhood. I feel sorry for him...
@@Sanecrist of course not! It was the style for woman in those times to tie together their waists extremely tight so they look to have teenie tiny waists
baleevet the look was achieved with Corsets and padded under garments, go check out Bernadette banner she explains the silhouettes of this time period very well
Thank you for efforts in making this series! This comprehensive overview of Victoria's descendants, and their pertinent roles in Western Culture, makes the task of sharing this with others so much more organized and understandable to those not so well versed in Western History.
Queen Mary was a prolific collector of antiques. It is said if she saw something while visiting someone's home that she liked and/or wanted, she hinted about it and then she simply stayed until it was offered to her no matter how long that took.
I am so very thrilled you have continued your most excellent series, ma'am. Miss Lindsay, you are a series documentarian par excellent and your narrative delivery has something for every age group. Good show and well done, my dear!!!
I wondered why Wilhelm hated his parents and turned against them from the last video where he was mentioned (it seemed like he just never liked them because his grandparents were conservative), but the so-called treatment he got both from the physicians and from his mother explains it all.
ScarletFBL But that is only propaganda. All of Germany adored Wilhelm's father Friedrich. He was a war hero, was highly intelligent, and was said to have had a winning personality. It was public knowledge that his wife loved him deeply. Now princess Victoria, Wilhelm's mother, had insisted on a British doctor at Wilhelm's birth. He injured and ruined Wilhelm's arm beond repair. The second time, Victoria insisted on a British doctor, she killed her husband by doing so. Friedrich's German doctors wanted to remove his throat cancer as soon as they had diagnosed it, but the British doctor promised cure without surgery until it was too late. In fact, this British doctor brought a jounalist to the bed of dying Friedrich. Wilhelm was in the room and kicked out both of them, doctor and journalist. He tells this story at lengths in the first part of his autobiography, and you can still sense his outrage when he does. But at no time you will read one bad word about his mother. He always speaks of her with fondness and respect! Oh I forgott: Wilhelm's parents were liberal, but due to the few days of their reign, they never got the chance to rule. No, the freedom of science, and the social revolution in Germany, turning Germany into the richest and most advanced of all countries was solely Wilhelm's work. That was also the reason why he had to go. After all, how were various governments to explain to their workers the benefits of the German worker: no hire and fire, retirement, healthcare, prohibition of child work. To this day, Germany still profits from his reforms!
She didn't get to live her own life until her mother died in 1925. She wanted to marry and have a family and wasn't allowed to - because Alix wanted her home as companion and unpaid servant.
‘As briefly as possible, here are the stories of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren’ no!! I want the exact opposite, I want the stories as detailed as possible -*~*
My paternal grandparents had 11 children, one (uncle Freddie) dying in infancy. They had 36 grandchildren including myself. And my four children are part of 130+ great grandchildren. Though my children are still young, their generation’s children already total over 30.
Edward VII hated his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II. Queen Victoria on the other hand much preferred her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm to her oldest son Bertie, who eventually became Edward VII.
@@zzzbbboooLmao propaganda Edward VII was a disgrace to the family Victoria herself belived his behaviour like having Multiple mistresses to have contributed to her early husbands death, while Wilhelm always did what was right and gave Norway money out if his own pockets when a fire broke out not German tax money his own, ww1 propaganda is only alive in Britain the rest of the world already knows the truth.
As children who never received love, affection and care from their parents, it is no surprise that most of them lost their ways and made terrible decisions.
This is a very well presented and summarised video which identifies clearly whose offspring each of the grandchildren were. Also very informative in the short space of the video. Looking forward to viewing the next instalment.
This is amazingly detailed, well narrated, and so far brilliantly accurate!!! You did a really great job with this; I'm really enjoying it so far! :D Edit: I loved your take on Albert Victor - it was really refreshing to see something positive about him! Also liked your take on Toria; she's one of my favourite British princesses and it's great that she got a decent amount of attention :)
Beatrice (Victoria's youngest) had been expected to stay unmarried and with Victoria (Beatrice married Henry of Battenberg). Alexandra this expected one of her daughters to forgo marriage and stay with her. This was the practice during Victorian times.
@Kathy Sharpe..... Sounds to me like her kids, were also her Grand Kids, and Her Bothers & Sisters, and Uncle by marriage, all at once! And we're only talking about one person besides Victoria! 😂
@oldsexy Still, they're cousins, Identical cousins and you'll find, They laugh alike, they walk alike, At times they even talk alike - You can lose your mind, When cousins are two of a kind.
@Nico Jade... That's because with their family tree, everytime the Czar looked in the mirror to shave, his Brother, First Cousin, & Uncle looked back at him! 🤣
Queen Mary was NOT a kleptomaniac. She did not point things out at people's houses and say, "I'll have that, thank you." What she did was, upon noticing a missing piece of a the Royal property in someone else's house, write to the mistress or master of that house requesting the item be returned to the palace. Given nearly all those items of property had been illegally given away by Royal family members who had no right to do that, or they had been lost in gambling, she was acting legally and socially in the right. Queen Mary is responsible for having restored very historically important Royal collections. She was NOT "a notorious kleptomaniac".
Why does nobody talk about King George V at all?? Why is he so underrated? People talk about his cousins, his father, his wife, his sons but not him. He is so little talked about and so underrated even though he accomplished great things. Why?
Because he stayed out of the public eye largely, and that means no one was really that interested in him. He wasn’t bothered with the pageantry that usually comes with royalty
Omg Wilhelm II and I had the same beggining. I also had nerve damage on my left arm when I was born and my left arm was paralyzed! I had tons of therapy so I can move it almost normally, but my left arm is still a few centimetres shorter (it’s mostly me who notices it) so interesting to see someone else have the same problem as me
Looking forward to parts 2 & 3. Good stuff. Btw, looking at the children of George V, I’m thinking they got some of that Mary Teck part of the gene pool and therefore passed that onto Elizabeth II lol
The map at 0:40 wrongly shaded Indonesia and part of Malaysia (East Malaysia) while leaving West Malaysia unshade. Indonesia is republic. Malaysia still have constitutional monarchy.
Queen Mary was anything BUT a kleptomaniac. During the reigns of George IV up to Edward VII, many items in the royal collection were loaned to noble families across the country. Queen Mary was interested in the history of the royal collection. When her husband, George V came to the throne, it is said she went through all the old inventories and discovered that many items that have previously been put on loan have not been returned to the royal collection. She simply demanded these items be returned.
I need to correct my dear. When it comes to Maud and Carl of Denmark, Norway desolved its union with Sweden. Haakon VII was at that time the only king elected by the people of the nation he was to be the figure head of. Yes, Maud had a very slim waist, 33cm I have heard. You are doing a good job, so keep it up!
You forget to mention Wilhelm II was an outspoken anti-Nazi. He did not support the Nazis as he was a monarchist and the monarchists hated him. He congratulated Hitler on Germany's early conquests in the war because he saw his home nation pulled from the darkness and actually winning again, especially with defeating his old rivals, the French. He died in 1941, well before the crimes of the Nazis were even known.
13:31 all I could think was she’s a real life Cottagecore Princess But considering how some of her other relatives lives went, this seems like such a calm and peaceful way to live out your life
Queen Victoria Definitely Has A Lot Of Grandchildren. Who Agrees To This Sentence? Linsday Holiday I Love your Videos Thank You For Putting A Lot Of History Stuff.
German U-boats were sinking passenger ships because America was shipping weapons to Britain in civilian ships, basically using the civilians as human shields. It is crappy that both sides in WW1 cared so little about taking lives. To their credit though, the Germans did put out many ads in papers and flyers for civilians to be wary of coming to Britain as the two countries were at war. Still sad though, poor Lusitania passengers....
Wait. I knew that George V was Victoria's grandson, but I was shocked when I realized that Wilhelm II is also her grandson! What a surprise! Looks like two cousins started a war
That's true. Infact the British king, the German Kaiser and the Russian Tsarina were all first cousins. In addition to having the Tsarina as a cousin on his father's side I think George V also had the Tsar of Russia as a first cousin on his mother's side.
At 13:52, you say that Parliament broke de union between Norway and Denmark, but the union was between Sweden and Norway. Thus, Oscar II of Sweden abdicated the throne of Norway, and Carl of Denmark became King Haakon VII of Norway.
Amaaaazzing video but one thing- Home Rule did not make Ireland its own nation- it didn't actually really happen because of WW1... Hence the 1916 Rising and then thereafter the War of Independence, Civil War etc etc etc. Phew!
Their is this one members of the British royal family who is kinda distant but this part of the royal. She look just like her, like a modern version of Victoria face
Wonderful History. Beautiful Memories. Childhood photos Beautiful. Kings quieens beautiful Dresses Designs, Hair styles, Crowns jewelry designs amazing. Excellent Photos. Photography Videos beautiful. All are wonderful beautiful. So happy. I like this video. Thank you so much sharing this wonderful Video.
I just love it when you post a video, I listen to them right before sleeping... Thank you for all that quality content, please don't stop teaching us things!
Is it true that one of the reasons Queen Victoria loved the idea of being called Empress of India, was because she couldn’t stand being outranked by her own daughter Victoria who was the Empress of Germany?
I just can't resist this comment. When I saw that Louise was Countess of Fife, my very thought was, "Does that mean she is related to Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show? I am joking of course.
George V was not boring. He just didnt like parties and going other men's wife. And yes, he was more intelligent than his lethargic brother. Give him credit!
Oh my goodness, 42 Grandchildren! I have 8 Grandkids (#’s 1 thru 7 boys & #8 my little Princess!) every time I turn around it’s seems it one of their birthdays! I would have had to make a cheat sheet to remember all of their names! I’m sincerely delighted that I stumbled upon your Channel, your videos are very well edited and your commentary is excellent! ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
fun fact: despite wilhelm 2 saying some anti semitic stuff, he was never a real anti semitic, following things that nazis did, he said he was ashamed to be german. he was also a big criticizer of nazis and hitler and was also not very fond of national socialism. i've also heard once that he even spended to the interior design of a synagogue, but i'm not sure if it's real, i'll need some conformations here.
The Union that were dissolved in 1905 was actually between Norway and Sweden, not Norway and Denmark. Great videos non the less :) /history loving swede
she is truly the grandmother of Europe. the queen of kings and queens. and it is crazy to see how unlikely it was for Queen Elizabeth to become queen. First her greatuncle died, and then her uncle abdicated.
If you are concerned that I said "the children of Victoria and Edward" I'm speaking of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert's grandchildren who were the children of their two eldest children Victoria, Empress of Germany and of King Edward VII of the UK. Thanks to those who pointed this out to others 😉
Hey @lindsay holiday, is there a part 2 and 3?
@@veronicaalvarez5754 yes
@@fatnsassy99 I didn't see them
Can you link them?
@@veronicaalvarez5754 oh no sweetie, they weren't. Guess I just watched another one of her shows about something else. I thot it was but anyways.... My bad. No. Her 1 of 3 parts is just a 1 out of 1 looks like. Sorry
Imagine been a grandmother and having all these people coming to your place, I would be so annoyed
To be fair she had 9 palaces i think she had space
And LOTS of help😉
I mean my grandma has just 16 grandkids. But adding in the great grands and great great grands (and maybe a great great great grand or two) and we have almost 60 from 7 kids. I’m the youngest of the 16 grands
There's about a hundred rooms in Buckingham palace alone.
She loved nothing better than to have her grand children around her
"An embarrassing number of nazis"
Victoria: "I came out here to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked rn."
Victoria and Albert were both mostly German and he was raised as a German Prince. Several of the kids married German princes and princesses because they had so many principalities there there was a lot of German Royals given the circumstances it's probably not surprising. In 1918 the German royalty was abolished, but when the Nazis came in and took over a lot of the German princes thought that this would bring a new resurgence a German royalty and some of them signed on with Hitler
@@ladyagnes7781 He would never have reinstalled monarchy as the megalomaniac he was. They should've known better.
Of course, but everything else in Germany was going Republic oh, so some of the monarchy did think that was a dictator there might be a foot in the door for royalty again. In Austria they knew better. The children of Franz Ferdinand and archduchess Sophie campaigned against Hitler and weld up in concentration camps for it. They survived the war but it did shorten their lives considerably
@@ladyagnes7781 do you have proof of this as reference somewhere to find, as basis to how as far what you are alleging the bane of Franz Ferdinand "Adolph Hitler & S.S." had Franz Ferdinand's offspring locked up in Kampfs, curious as too how long they lived for afterwards, of where did this 'sit-in' occurence happen? (Silly \\Ghasse// Minds_)
@@macenmansfield9101 proof is in the bullshit.. dictators and monarchs are 1 of the same.. just a bit more panache and legacy with the other
So basically queen Victoria is the grand ma of Europe
Yep. And her and the kids were responsible for WW1 and the millions of casualties. Relatives of hers (mostly placed by her) sat on the thrones of something like 10 European countries at the outbreak of the war.
That's her nickname
how about French?
@michael anthony is there any Queen's decendant in there?
@@elisahatz thank you...would love to see some cover about it 👍
I like how this video covers psychological aspect and the nature of relationship between parents and children , how traumas passes from mothers to children. It just proves that money does not garantee happiness
What does money have to do anything with this ? They’re royals, the amount of duties weighed on them and expectations EVEN WORSE OF ALL reputations really took a toll on mothers. Keep in Mind the everyone married really young especially girls. So of course they weren’t psychologically prepared and with the pressure from all the envious people MANY many royals cracked. Money however I think was the least of their problems.you can have a lovely family, great environment and still be a millionaire.
I don’t understand why people with money are directly inlisted as ungrateful or horrible snobs. It’s not like that, you can be happy whether you have money or not. It’s not money that measures happiness, it’s YOU. When these young moms tried to do what they thought was right they were shunned, talked about, humiliated and who knows what else. Their parents mostly didn’t care about them, and they were left to fend of their in-laws at like what 14 or even 15. So obviously they’re going to live horribly and not realize the neglect they applied to their children.
Yes, money, position and power does not guarantee happiness. As a matter of fact, I think it guarantees more problems in my opinion.
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Imagine telling your sibling “hey my child fell in love with yours”
It's so disgusting.
pretty awkard but ok
And like, it's just normal to them
Sounds like the American South!
if there weren't medical consequences, would it really been so disgusting?
0:13 I feel like they hired a painter who only knew how to paint two faces.
Lol
That's because they only had two faces, which they swapped between themselves
Those aren’t paintings lol. They’re actual photographs. Photography was already around at this time lol. They didn’t need painters and portraits for the royal photos anymore starting in 1826. Queen Victoria wasn’t even the Queen yet in that year lol.
The dogs look more real
@@cannapatient4209 the one that they're talking about definitely looks like a painting or drawing not a photograph
Ok but kinda weird how the kids who were favourite of Victoria died whilst the ones who gave her trouble or she was ashamed of survived👀
So you have to make Victoria see you as the worst human to ever exists To be immortal?
That’s what I thought also lol
Yeah,Queen Alexandra Of Russia was her favourite grandkid,who died in 1918 due to the Romanov Assassination
Living on just out of pettiness 💀😂
The ones who entered into incestuous marriages young like she wanted them to were obviously gonna have a worse time, and the turn of the century was a bad time to be staunchly conservative like Victoria was, especially when you’re a royal
Never thought I would say this, but, poor Wilhelm. The child Wilhelm, anyway.
Just think if he wasnt treated that way as a child. We would of have had a different history.
@@juliefranco12 ^ exactly my thoughts
@@andrepettersson175 Thank you for sharing that. I really enjoyed it, and learned things I hadn't known before, for all my devouring of this type of subject matter. For those interested, here is part 2: dai.ly/x1mx9pn
Hopeful Agnostic personally I’m still surprised that Wilhelm didn’t get executed like all the others did in the Great War.
@@ehrichan6726 what do you mean executed? If you are reffering to the revolution in Germany you should know that 50% of Germans supported the monarchy still... its one of the reasons Hitler gained so much power in the early days beacuse he promised to restore it.
While George V was relatively dull for a monarch, he did have one rather eccentric hobby; moth hunting. He was a crack shot for pheasant hunting, but sometimes he'd wake up in the night, light a candle, and wait for moths to gather around it while aiming a miniature shotgun about the size of a matchbox.
Whaaat?? Lol
that's a weird and somehow cute image to picture 🤔
Good, moths are evil
He was a famous philatelist as well.
@@sandler2724 Bahahahaha.... I love moths
"Henry married his first cousin" - well that sentence isn't even finished but I can already tell how this ends
You have your cousins. And then your first cousins.
@@kerriethompson2073 First cousins are also cousins. And what they meant is that they'd be sick...
@@annnee6818 I was quoting a line form Mena Girls. I was trying to make a joke.
Kerrie Thompson what? He’s a good kisser!
@@Anonymous.user.157 ha ha!
Lindsay you should also do Great Grandchildren of Queen Victoria. I am weirdly obsessed with this family tree.
A great great
me too 😭 but also obviously the said family tree is basically some of the most important people for modern history and greatly affected recent history (to say the least)
YESSSS I’ve been waiting for this one! “The Grandmother of Europe.”
What an addled band of misbegotten monsters to have ever plague humanity.
Gram gram…
@@kaiserwilhelmii7880 i know i’m a bit late and all but how do you grow such a fabulous moustache
The Tsars were already in trouble before rasputan came along. The revolutionaries used it as one of their reasons for dethroning them.
@Sam Bacon There is an interesting story about Rasputin in which he prophesied that he would be murdered. He told the Czar that if he was murdered by a peasant, then the dynasty would go on to rule another one hundred years. But if he was murdered by a member of the aristocracy the Czar would lose his throne within a year after his murder. He was of course murdered by aristocrats led by Prince Felix Yousoupoff, a nephew by marriage of the Czar. And the Czar did of course abdicate not long afterward.
One of the main reasons was the royal family’s lavish lifestyle while public was dying out of starvation
Heidi Luchterhand she did say it contributed to their downfall not the entire reason for their downfall
P3891 I was just contributing to the discussion not disagreeing. I never said she was wrong. 👍
Had they not assassinated Alexander things would have changed for the better, because he was more progressive in thought than any other czar
"and two married couples" bruh don't tell me they did what i think they did
Red Don’t be too surprised lol. Incest was extremely common among royals in history. Because they were royal, they could only make a royal marriage. They weren’t allowed to marry a commoner. There were only so many royal families. Eventually they were all related lol. The Ancient Egyptians were even crazier about marriage. They always married a sibling or some other direct relative, because they thought that doing so would keep their royal bloodline “pure”. Of course, all it really did was deform their children and create psychotic rulers.
.o. The no no
Victoria and Albert themselves were first cousins. In fact Queen Victoria tried to get her granddaughter Alix to marry Albert Victor who was Edwards eldest.
She told her grandmother she loves him as a cousin but not as a husband and she went on to marry Nicholas II of Russia. Queen Victoria was very famous for trying to get her grandchildren to marry each other
Would it surprise you to know that 10% of the worlds population is the product of first cousin marriages today?
Talking about ancient Egyptians. Some Pharaohs were even more crazy as they marry their _own_ daughters after wife’s death
I’m strangely addicted to your video.
I like history from England.
sara Muresan this is European History
Got so intrested in the history of the royals..& can't stop looking for more. Now I know where Andrew, Harry and Margaret got their grove on, it runs in the family.
Me too
same i dont know why tho
same
Waldemar---I kept hearing Voldemort lol I don't know why. I'm loving this video series. Can't wait for the next part.
.. omg saameee .. i thought my listening skill is decreasing .. lol
Same
Amazingly, there was life before Harry Potter. But at least we don't have to live in it!
No cousin marrying either. Ugghh my first cousins are fat, lazy boys with hair to their bottoms and yes, chain smokers! So much no.
@@sekararumsukarna no no no no.german WW II submarine Terpis
Having a mum and stepdad who both have degrees in history I lap this shit up so much. Love history stuff.
"Mary of Teck a notorious kleptomaniac" LOL Give us all the tea!
I would love to hear more about her!
Queen Mary stole stuff all the time! If she wasn’t able to just take it, she’d hint to the owner of whatever she wanted that she had something at home that matches it or whatever, until they just gave it to her 😂
@@kristi4113 She also failed to pay a decent price for the jewelry she bought from the Russian Grand Duchesses after the revolution.
Queen Mary was anything BUT a kleptomaniac. During the reigns of George IV up to Edward VII, many items in the royal collection were loaned to noble families across the country. Queen Mary was interested in the history of the royal collection. When her husband, George V came to the throne, it is said she went through all the old inventories and discovered that many items that have previously been put on loan have not been returned to the royal collection. She simply demanded theses items be returned.
@Sam Bacon Queen Mary: 1867-1953
by James Pope-Hennessy
Imagine 42 people coming to your palace and saying "Hey grandma!"
Lol
imagine having a palace
Pet crocodile 🐊😂 i think i found my favorite of that lot 😅
I laughed at Mary of Tek.... A notorious Kleptomaniac...... Aw-oh count the silverware then hide them, here comes that theiving crackhead Mary again! 😂
She always seems so stern. Maybe guilt over the alleged klepto thang?
🤣
We all know Waldemar wanted the crocodille to eat the old lizzard.
Fun thing, they also claim that queen Ingrid the mother of the current Danish queen suffered from Kleptomania in her old age. Stories are that the family would have a servant trailing her, paying for everything she nicked.
A family feud that pulled in the whole world. Crazy, if you consider how much love and time Albert poured into his children.
.. perfect timing .. i literally just finished the crown 10 seconds ago when i saw this ..
Sekar Arum Sukarna What did you think of season 3? I smell a Golden Globe for Helena.
@@kristi4113 .. omg she deserves that for sure .. but season 3 feels too documentary to me plot-wise .. i have no complaints other than that ..
Kristi
I was very underwhelmed by season 3, but Helena definitely deserves all the awards
I am still finishing it. I think that the episode where we see Prince Charles is very heartbreaking, taking into account that there is also another episode of him in his traumatic childhood. I feel sorry for him...
Norway dissolved their union with Sweden not Denmark. Until 1814 with Denmark, 1814-1905 with Sweden.
Thank You For That Correction!!!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
What a pimp!!
David Ringmann before that again Norway, Sweden and Denmark were in a union together called the Kalmar union
@@norasvinsaas4343 established by Margrethe I, correct?
That snatched waist on Sophia of Greece!!
Legendary
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The photo was altered to look that way.
@@Sanecrist of course not! It was the style for woman in those times to tie together their waists extremely tight so they look to have teenie tiny waists
baleevet the look was achieved with Corsets and padded under garments, go check out Bernadette banner she explains the silhouettes of this time period very well
Thank you for efforts in making this series! This comprehensive overview of Victoria's descendants, and their pertinent roles in Western Culture, makes the task of sharing this with others so much more organized and understandable to those not so well versed in Western History.
Queen Mary was a prolific collector of antiques. It is said if she saw something while visiting someone's home that she liked and/or wanted, she hinted about it and then she simply stayed until it was offered to her no matter how long that took.
Windsors was a picked name
They gave up their German last name to make people forget their mostly germanic ancestry. Really interesting history 🤓🌸
English people are Germanic. They literally came from Germany
14:27 i hope one day a parent will never have to go through something like that again 😢😢
So excited for the next 2 episodes! Love getting to hear about Victoria and Albert's descendants.
I am so very thrilled you have continued your most excellent series, ma'am. Miss Lindsay, you are a series documentarian par excellent and your narrative delivery has something for every age group.
Good show and well done, my dear!!!
And we thought our family was crazy
After knowing all truth about them..I've thought about marrying my own cousin, so we can keep it in the family too
Sad that the mother encouraged their daughter Victoria not to marry, so that she could just be stay closer to them throughout their lives.
I wondered why Wilhelm hated his parents and turned against them from the last video where he was mentioned (it seemed like he just never liked them because his grandparents were conservative), but the so-called treatment he got both from the physicians and from his mother explains it all.
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But that is only propaganda. All of Germany adored Wilhelm's father Friedrich. He was a war hero, was highly intelligent, and was said to have had a winning personality. It was public knowledge that his wife loved him deeply. Now princess Victoria, Wilhelm's mother, had insisted on a British doctor at Wilhelm's birth. He injured and ruined Wilhelm's arm beond repair. The second time, Victoria insisted on a British doctor, she killed her husband by doing so. Friedrich's German doctors wanted to remove his throat cancer as soon as they had diagnosed it, but the British doctor promised cure without surgery until it was too late. In fact, this British doctor brought a jounalist to the bed of dying Friedrich. Wilhelm was in the room and kicked out both of them, doctor and journalist. He tells this story at lengths in the first part of his autobiography, and you can still sense his outrage when he does. But at no time you will read one bad word about his mother. He always speaks of her with fondness and respect! Oh I forgott: Wilhelm's parents were liberal, but due to the few days of their reign, they never got the chance to rule. No, the freedom of science, and the social revolution in Germany, turning Germany into the richest and most advanced of all countries was solely Wilhelm's work. That was also the reason why he had to go. After all, how were various governments to explain to their workers the benefits of the German worker: no hire and fire, retirement, healthcare, prohibition of child work. To this day, Germany still profits from his reforms!
Victoria - Toria ... was actually lucky for not getting married and staying with her parents. Then moving out and doing her gardening. I love that. 😍
She didn't get to live her own life until her mother died in 1925. She wanted to marry and have a family and wasn't allowed to - because Alix wanted her home as companion and unpaid servant.
Norway had a union with sweden back then not Denmark
Thank you.....🐳👽🐳👽5️⃣2️⃣🎬🇳🇴✍️🎥💤💰
Indeed
If everyone here already knows *everything*, why are you here?
Amy Lynn Hunt I do not know everything but it’s basic fact in modern Norwegian and Swedish History
Amy Lynn Hunt Who said anything about knowing everything? He just corrected her
Is everyone else OBSESSED with these videos?!😍
me!
‘As briefly as possible, here are the stories of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren’ no!! I want the exact opposite, I want the stories as detailed as possible -*~*
May have 6 videos if she did that... which is fine with me.
We all do
Great videos! I love learning about Europe’s history more, we didn’t learn too much in high school.
My paternal grandparents had 11 children, one (uncle Freddie) dying in infancy. They had 36 grandchildren including myself. And my four children are part of 130+ great grandchildren. Though my children are still young, their generation’s children already total over 30.
Edward VII hated his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II. Queen Victoria on the other hand much preferred her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm to her oldest son Bertie, who eventually became Edward VII.
Victoria despised Wilhelm's later behaviour, particularly the way he treated his parents where her attitude to Bertie softened as time went on.
@@zzzbbboooLmao propaganda Edward VII was a disgrace to the family Victoria herself belived his behaviour like having Multiple mistresses to have contributed to her early husbands death, while Wilhelm always did what was right and gave Norway money out if his own pockets when a fire broke out not German tax money his own, ww1 propaganda is only alive in Britain the rest of the world already knows the truth.
No she loved Wilhelm to the end even though she was still angry she died while in Wilhelms arm she despised Bertie blaming him for his father's death
As children who never received love, affection and care from their parents, it is no surprise that most of them lost their ways and made terrible decisions.
A sweeping statement that is an exaggeration, sorry.
@@zzzbbbooo are you to judge them?
This is a very well presented and summarised video which identifies clearly whose offspring each of the grandchildren were. Also very informative in the short space of the video. Looking forward to viewing the next instalment.
This is amazingly detailed, well narrated, and so far brilliantly accurate!!! You did a really great job with this; I'm really enjoying it so far! :D
Edit: I loved your take on Albert Victor - it was really refreshing to see something positive about him! Also liked your take on Toria; she's one of my favourite British princesses and it's great that she got a decent amount of attention :)
Beatrice (Victoria's youngest) had been expected to stay unmarried and with Victoria (Beatrice married Henry of Battenberg).
Alexandra this expected one of her daughters to forgo marriage and stay with her.
This was the practice during Victorian times.
To damn many kids- grandchildren etc. God have mercy.
Now imagine great grand children...
@@starlite04 she can imagine *too many
@Kathy Sharpe..... Sounds to me like her kids, were also her Grand Kids, and Her Bothers & Sisters, and Uncle by marriage, all at once! And we're only talking about one person besides Victoria! 😂
Pls do a video about Queens Victoria’s daughter in-laws
“An embarrassing number of nazis” I cHokED on my tea -
Can we talk about how much George V looks like Czar Nicholas of Russia
@oldsexy Still, they're cousins,
Identical cousins and you'll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike -
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.
Nicholas is far more Handsome and Healthy looking. He's also more Muscular and Taller.
Prince Michael of Kent looks like the tsar also
@Nico Jade... That's because with their family tree, everytime the Czar looked in the mirror to shave, his Brother, First Cousin, & Uncle looked back at him! 🤣
@@AlexS-oj8qf Nicholas was only 1 inch taller than George but I'll agree he holds himself better
Queen Mary was NOT a kleptomaniac. She did not point things out at people's houses and say, "I'll have that, thank you." What she did was, upon noticing a missing piece of a the Royal property in someone else's house, write to the mistress or master of that house requesting the item be returned to the palace. Given nearly all those items of property had been illegally given away by Royal family members who had no right to do that, or they had been lost in gambling, she was acting legally and socially in the right. Queen Mary is responsible for having restored very historically important Royal collections. She was NOT "a notorious kleptomaniac".
Why does nobody talk about King George V at all?? Why is he so underrated? People talk about his cousins, his father, his wife, his sons but not him. He is so little talked about and so underrated even though he accomplished great things. Why?
Because he stayed out of the public eye largely, and that means no one was really that interested in him. He wasn’t bothered with the pageantry that usually comes with royalty
Omg Wilhelm II and I had the same beggining. I also had nerve damage on my left arm when I was born and my left arm was paralyzed! I had tons of therapy so I can move it almost normally, but my left arm is still a few centimetres shorter (it’s mostly me who notices it) so interesting to see someone else have the same problem as me
Thank heavens that you do not have the same personality Carolina!
Looking forward to parts 2 & 3. Good stuff. Btw, looking at the children of George V, I’m thinking they got some of that Mary Teck part of the gene pool and therefore passed that onto Elizabeth II lol
After this series you should do all the Kings of France like you did England!!
The map at 0:40 wrongly shaded Indonesia and part of Malaysia (East Malaysia) while leaving West Malaysia unshade. Indonesia is republic. Malaysia still have constitutional monarchy.
I absolutely love your channel. Your voice is so calming
Queen Mary was anything BUT a kleptomaniac. During the reigns of George IV up to Edward VII, many items in the royal collection were loaned to noble families across the country. Queen Mary was interested in the history of the royal collection. When her husband, George V came to the throne, it is said she went through all the old inventories and discovered that many items that have previously been put on loan have not been returned to the royal collection. She simply demanded these items be returned.
World War 1 : a little family feud that cost 40 million casualties.
Where she has been dubbed 'Europes Grandmother', King Christian X of Denmark was dubbed 'Father in Law of Europe'
I love this videos! I wish you were my history teacher in school I would have learned so much back then! I can't wait to see the next ones!
Thank you for all the marvelous history telling.
I need to correct my dear. When it comes to Maud and Carl of Denmark, Norway desolved its union with Sweden. Haakon VII was at that time the only king elected by the people of the nation he was to be the figure head of. Yes, Maud had a very slim waist, 33cm I have heard. You are doing a good job, so keep it up!
You forget to mention Wilhelm II was an outspoken anti-Nazi. He did not support the Nazis as he was a monarchist and the monarchists hated him. He congratulated Hitler on Germany's early conquests in the war because he saw his home nation pulled from the darkness and actually winning again, especially with defeating his old rivals, the French. He died in 1941, well before the crimes of the Nazis were even known.
I love this series .Thank you, Lindsay!
For some reason your videos help me fall asleep really quickly!! Your voice is so calming and easy to listen to (,:
I wonder if Edward had been able to take advantage of the ADD/ADHD diagnosis/treatments we have today, what he would have been like as king.
13:31 all I could think was she’s a real life Cottagecore Princess
But considering how some of her other relatives lives went, this seems like such a calm and peaceful way to live out your life
OMG why are they so beautiful!!! I need their clothes!
They were ROYALE family so chil
Queen Victoria Definitely Has A Lot Of Grandchildren. Who Agrees To This Sentence? Linsday Holiday I Love your Videos Thank You For Putting A Lot Of History Stuff.
Thanks for liking!
I absolutely love your channel! Keep up the good work 😁
German U-boats were sinking passenger ships because America was shipping weapons to Britain in civilian ships, basically using the civilians as human shields. It is crappy that both sides in WW1 cared so little about taking lives. To their credit though, the Germans did put out many ads in papers and flyers for civilians to be wary of coming to Britain as the two countries were at war. Still sad though, poor Lusitania passengers....
Wait. I knew that George V was Victoria's grandson, but I was shocked when I realized that Wilhelm II is also her grandson! What a surprise! Looks like two cousins started a war
That's true. Infact the British king, the German Kaiser and the Russian Tsarina were all first cousins. In addition to having the Tsarina as a cousin on his father's side I think George V also had the Tsar of Russia as a first cousin on his mother's side.
George V had no say in wars, it was up to the Houses of Parliament to decide.
I really appreciate that you used the right map of Morocco and haven't divided the northern part from the southern part of the country.
Thank you for your videos!! I am a history lover and I really enjoy the content that you create!!❤
At 13:52, you say that Parliament broke de union between Norway and Denmark, but the union was between Sweden and Norway. Thus, Oscar II of Sweden abdicated the throne of Norway, and Carl of Denmark became King Haakon VII of Norway.
Amaaaazzing video but one thing- Home Rule did not make Ireland its own nation- it didn't actually really happen because of WW1... Hence the 1916 Rising and then thereafter the War of Independence, Civil War etc etc etc. Phew!
This is the best history lesson ever!
The daughters, and granddaughters sure do look just like Queen Victoria.
I don't think they all do. Alexandria's daughters all have that long faces and high cheekbones. Queen Victoria was over weight.
They'd be scared not to? Queen Victoria strikes me as somewhat of a tartar.
Their is this one members of the British royal family who is kinda distant but this part of the royal. She look just like her, like a modern version of Victoria face
Wonderful History. Beautiful Memories. Childhood photos Beautiful. Kings quieens beautiful Dresses Designs, Hair styles, Crowns jewelry designs amazing. Excellent Photos. Photography Videos beautiful. All are wonderful beautiful. So happy. I like this video. Thank you so much sharing this wonderful Video.
Omg I've been waiting for this ♥️
Me too!
Ben Taylor - That’s what I told my wife last night.
I just love it when you post a video, I listen to them right before sleeping... Thank you for all that quality content, please don't stop teaching us things!
Is it true that one of the reasons Queen Victoria loved the idea of being called Empress of India, was because she couldn’t stand being outranked by her own daughter Victoria who was the Empress of Germany?
Pretty much. I think that's the biggest reason why she had the title created.
I just can't resist this comment. When I saw that Louise was Countess of Fife, my very thought was, "Does that mean she is related to Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show? I am joking of course.
George V was not boring. He just didnt like parties and going other men's wife. And yes, he was more intelligent than his lethargic brother. Give him credit!
Thank you for starting with my Good Cousin, always nice to see that branch of the family getting recognition, even if we lost.
congrats on taking up such a difficult story to tell, there's so many!!! can't wait to watch. i respect how well you compile everything!
I love these! Great, interesting information. I’ve always been fascinated by The English Royals. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, 42 Grandchildren! I have 8 Grandkids (#’s 1 thru 7 boys & #8 my little Princess!) every time I turn around it’s seems it one of their birthdays! I would have had to make a cheat sheet to remember all of their names!
I’m sincerely delighted that I stumbled upon your Channel, your videos are very well edited and your commentary is excellent! ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
fun fact: despite wilhelm 2 saying some anti semitic stuff, he was never a real anti semitic, following things that nazis did, he said he was ashamed to be german. he was also a big criticizer of nazis and hitler and was also not very fond of national socialism.
i've also heard once that he even spended to the interior design of a synagogue, but i'm not sure if it's real, i'll need some conformations here.
The amount of incest makes me uncomfortable
Your voice is perfect for narration.
I absolutely love this series! Thank you so much for the uploads, and I can't wait for the next episode!
Actually people pretty much know that Charlotte suffered from porphyria because they did a genetic test on her remains.
Wait but I wanna hear about Mary’s kleptomania 😂
She never stole anything.
Me too 😂
Same🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Lindsay Holiday. Impressive presentation
and queen Victoria had to memories all the names😂 and the husband and wifes names of everyone😂 and the title of every one😂
Waldemar setting his pet crocidile in his grandmother's office : That's every little boy's dream !!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
yeeesss i'm ready for this series!!!!
Thank you so much for all the work you have put into this video. So interesting ❤ Watching from Quebec, Canada!
The Union that were dissolved in 1905 was actually between Norway and Sweden, not Norway and Denmark.
Great videos non the less :)
/history loving swede
she is truly the grandmother of Europe. the queen of kings and queens. and it is crazy to see how unlikely it was for Queen Elizabeth to become queen. First her greatuncle died, and then her uncle abdicated.