Queen Victoria circa 1900

[kendahke]

Do not go by this guy's recounting of anything historical. He pulls most of what he talks about out of his butt. If you want to know the mind of Victoria R&I, then read the published series of her correspondences with her daughter, Vicki when she was the crown princess then Empress of Prussia. You will get insight into both of their minds for a span of over 40 years.

[paixx12]

He speaks as if he were there.

[TrcDK]

the man in the start can remember it :D hehe

[TheNeoVictorian]

This man does awful "art" and his history is just as bad - if these videos and his website are any indication.

Queen Victoria - "never a Victorian"? Rubbish. She was notorious for being just as middle-class as her subjects, which is why Gladstone said that the Queen's opinion was an excellent substitute for a referendum.

Making up lies for a pseudo-clever little turn of phrase at the end of a biosketch is one thing, but calling that "history" is disingenuous.

[Strefanasha]

@TheNeoVictorian what do you mean by victorian? She was never stuffy, repressed or hypocritical. and she was not racist at all, hence her fondness for the socalled Munshi at the end of her life.

I think the author's comment that she was never a victorian was correct

[streetwhereulive]

It's wonderful to see this. Thank you.

[johneunson]

i wonder if any of the pictures of 'albert in his coffin' still exist? why did he age prematurely? apart from the problems with edward he had a cosseted lifestyle.

[talmadge1926]

I believe a photograph of Prince Albert on his deathbed still hangs over the Queens bed at Osborne House where his watch is still on his bedside table, His walking sticks etc exactly where he left them and his desk with everything as it was when he died. Fresh soap and Nightgowns were laid out every evening for the rest of her life. The Prince worked hard on various committees to the detriment of his delicate health. His crowning acheivement being the Great Exhibition of 1851.

[Strefanasha]

@johneunson overwork killed him. he was too dutiful for his own good, hence the premature aging. he was aftger all only 42

[johneunson]

@Strefanasha  yes, it was tragic. some polition said recently, 'had albert lived he would have turned britain into a dictatorship'. what do you think this means? i find victoria enigmatic....but i seem not to be able to get any insight into what made albert 'tick'. can you recommend any materials i should read?

[Strefanasha]

@johneunson sorry, not really. i have read some biographies of quenn Victoria but my aging memory cannot name them. A dictatorship? I really dont think so. he was a liberal. their eldest daughter was liberal as was her husband, Frederick Wilhem, and there were great hopes for this. But poor Laiser Willy, her son was nothing of the sort.

I suspect Albert was something of a prig but he and Victoria totally adored each other

[MarieEdinburgh]

Her Pathetic Sentimental Majesty... the grotesque crybaby who became Empress of India.

[xoio]

Wow .... You're pretty bitter & twisted about this!

Were you 'royaly' abused as a child or something?

Or do you think the world owes you a favour!?

[MarieEdinburgh]

No, but the bitch is very overrated and I think it's very unfair. That's it.

[UsagiDreams]

Whilst Her Majesty Queen Victoria reigned over Britain, Britain flourished and became a great nation in the world. I'm sure that if your true love died you would be so depressed as Her Majesty was. Stop insulting people who can no longer defend themselves.

[MarieEdinburgh]

It's true that Britain flousished during her reign, but the problem is that people wrongly think that Queen Victoria was responsible for that flourishment and they forget that in Britain the monarch has NO political power. So yes, Britain flourished, but NO, it was not "her"merit.

If my true love dies I would be depressed indeed, but I wouldn't make a ridiculous drama like Queen Victoria did. And besides she was very sentimental and dramatic in general, not only regarding her husband.

[JuanMacready]

Britain was already the world power when Victoria acceeded to the throne.

[honeycrack69]

enjoyed this, thank you

[chefnyc]

whats the point , I mean seriously why did she bother or england for that matter ,it could have been a humble land like it is today but instead it tried to rule the world and fucked it up, lesson learned I think, people need to keep in mind the victorian times really was the start of the materialistic world of today and media spin also , it was dumb race compared to today .

[MarieEdinburgh]

Exactly. That moron called Victoria is OVERRATED beyond words and her reign was the beginning of the dumb and shallow materialistic culture we have today.

[BlondCT]

I don't see the direct line of descent from Queen Victoria to Britney Spears, but if you say so...

[MarieEdinburgh]

I DO see the direct line from the stupid Victorian capitalist system to the stupid American capitalist system.

[mharrsch]

That's about the wildest myth I've ever heard. Queen Victoria had multiple children and descendants.

[carsel3]

I mean no disrespect at all but I heard that Queen Victoria was really a man. Is this a myth or what. Again I mean no direspect of any kind but I'm slightly interested to know?

[Trafalgar1961]

That is a myth I've never heard of!. She was a woman, no doubt about that.

[ezelje]

you might be confusing her with Elizabeth I. There was rumour she was a man as she was bald in her old age, never married and never had children.

[UsagiDreams]

If Elizabeth I had been a man in the first place, Henry VIII would have been overjoyed and Anne Boleyn probably wouldn't have lost her head.

[1401JSC]

A man who bore 9 surviving children?

RUBBISH.

I wish people would name their historical surces before commenting like this.

[4521556]

this man is incorrect and gets on my nerves..pompous farty queen

[MrArtVandelay]

Very interesting. I always thought her perpetual mourning was as a result of the loss of a spouse (King George?)

[Trafalgar1961]

It was a spouse, but his name was Albert. This chap is no historian from what I can make out. That's putting it kindly :)

[beanolabub]

He was King George but known as Albert as George was his fathers name.

[gobz11]

Wht do you mock her?

[nineteenthly]

I don't agree with the monarchy, though of course i admire or feel neutral about them as people. The point is, she wasn't a "waste of flesh and bone", any more than any Royal is. They are born into it and they can't just opt out because the country expects them to do that job. They have no choice about what they do and are not as free as we are to make choices about their lives. All they can do is try to do their jobs well, and if they don't, well, no-one gave them a choice.

[Plongeur1]

thank you for posting the video, very nice

[mortal886]

this video is interesting

p.s my mum made me do dis

[JohnnyH1982]

Victoria Imperatrix Regina

God Bless the Queen!

[GenericGene]

Very interesting account of history - thanks.

[BlondCT]

Another definitive comment from the chief coroner of history!