"She forgot her happy childhood. Only focused on the sad. " WTF how is he going to tell us how SHE felt? That's just outright downplaying HER EMOTIONS on HER life. 🙄🙄

Victoria’s mother allowed John Conroy to micromanage Victoria’s life. Where she slept how she went down the stairs etc. He isolated her and tried to force her to sign papers that would give her mother and by extension Conroy more power. They say Victoria ate really fast. I wonder if the “Kensington “system included restricting her food.

She wrote to our King Pedro V who she loved very much, like Prince Albert did love him too and they both were devastated when he died a month before Prince Albert.

My great great grandmother met the queen as she was coming though the town and stopped over night

Those little notes from her mum under her pillow 😭

Fascinating, looking forward to the next part. Thanks.

Thank you for anything Queen Victoria! She is 💯

There is absolutely no evidence that she “adored” her mother

Great show thank you for sharing.

Yes. Very interesting video, even after so many years after her tragic death. A glimpse beyond the facade.

I don't think Victoria was completely out of line for her resentment for her mother. The fact she schemed with that man and allowed him to try to take advantage of her daughter doesn't say much for her character. I can't help but think had she not been so stupid or in love with Conroy she could've found a loving mentor for her daughter that could've helped her prepare to be Queen instead of trying to rob her of her crown. I don't have a high opinion of her mother. I would've put her in another house too.

I don’t think the painting ( at 47: 09) reflects Prince Albert with his hand in her “ moist little palm” is accurate. That’s what this guy is saying with his interpretation of Queen Victoria’s “ moist little palm”… I do not see Prince Albert as bing the main theme or center of the painting; I see them both. I think it’s the beautiful painting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert wanted. I like it , and ai don’t agree with what this man in the documentary thinks about it. I do t think this painting was made to how Prince Albert in the fore front. No. It’s a beautiful painting. And that’s it.

Given the toxic relationship most of the Hanoverians had with their heirs Victoria’s relationship with her mother was almost mild. They may not have got on in life, but at least Victoria had enough evidence of her mother’s affection to miss her when she was gone. Poor Princess Charlotte was stuck with parents who actively hated each other and were so insensitive that they practically turned being damaging and unfeeling into a competition sport!

why does this sound like it was written by queen victorias mother lmao

For heaven's sake, why are they downplaying her own writings? "She had it pretty good", dolls, a dog, and some fun times do not make up for abusive parental figures! The letters from her mother are sweet, but that doesn't mean that she was a good mother!

This breaks my heart. I keep a diary and I would be so upset to find out someone had tried to stifle my voice by editing my words. I have no doubt her daughter meant well, but this is a gift to the generations to come to be able to read the words of such a prolific historical figure and to have those words changed...it doesn't sit right with me. The Victorian era is known for being such a reserved era, to know the woman it is named for was so filled with life, well it truly changes the way you look at a whole era in time, doesn't it?

I think a book should be written with all of her recorded 💭 thoughts. It would be so amazing to read...get inside the mind of a Queen. Her daughter destroyed and edited her journals...& that's just unfathomable to me! 👑 She so loved her husband 😍

It sounds like the presenter is auditioning to have the greatest German accent 😂

Too many ads!!!

Where part 2?! Such an interesting episode.

I wish there were more statues of her when she was at her most stunningly gorgeous. Hey, why does that king charles spaniel have a long nose!?

I feel bad for Victoria, that poor woman spent her entire life being controlled or people attempting to control her. She finally gets away from her mother and her coconspirator who basically imprisoned her, thinks she’s found the love of her life (which I think was a combo of true love for Albert and a desperate attempt at having someone to finally support her in her role as queen and most likely some sort of father figure) only to find herself in a scheme to keep her knocked up churning out children as she watches her power slowly dwindle as her husband gas lights her into submission, which has to be a kind of hell for her considering she clearly did love Albert but obviously had some inclination that her “dear Albert” was kind of an asshole, all while battling postpartum after 9 births, and that’s not even counting her hatred for being pregnant itself, it’s actually a miracle she didn’t have Albert beheaded after one of those pregnancies. I’m fairly amazed at how well Victoria handled herself in her life, she had a lot of poor hands to play but managed to come out on top historically, I mean, none of us think of the great King Albert and his meek wife Victoria, no, we think of Victoria who changed the world and her helper Albert (regardless of the truth of it). Good for her. Also, kind of hate the hosts German accent everytime he reads one of Alberts letters, he sounds like he’s mocking someone.

SEcong longest reign. Queen Elizabeth II has out lived and out reignedQueen Victoria.

35:00 out of left field

This kind of fits in with the movie. I believe I would have been much like her daughter Vicky who married Fritz. Great video. Thank you.

Well this presenter is really interesting! He makes a funeral look like a party!

This documentary is completely from a man's point of view. The makers don't even attempt to see it from her point of view, yet they feel the need to judge her.

I am sure I have seen this before. Anyone else?

Werent her letters destroyed and rewriten differently by one of her daughters?

Is it possible that Beatrice put in outright lies?

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you can tell that A A Wilson is prejudiced against the Germans! he should really be more impartial...Prince Albert was v intelligent and Victoria wasn't given the educational opportunity to achieve her potential but she knew that she had hit a goldmine with Albert in every respect... The Royal Family and the nation has benefitted ever since. Her diaries are a wonderful historical record too.

Prince Albert sounds like a very controlling, power hungry man. Yes he loved Queen Victoria and she loved him too, but he treated her like garbage wtf He wasn’t the King, Victoria was

Your interpretation of the Countess voice and tone is deeply disrespectful, and super annoying (34:57). You don’t have to act like an ass just because you don’t like her. (I also think she was a crappy mom, btw).

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Britians longest reigning monarch is Elizabeth II not Victoria

He said “visitided”

Yes, Victoria ruled the world. Then arrived numerous U.K. successive governments who, one by one, gave away our lands and - as a final act of utter stupidity - gave away our country itself. We are now imprisoned by foreigners' cultures working fourteen hour days in order to keep our exploited and collapsed economy from creating a land already not far in terms of 'wealth' and squalor from the third world lands previously inhabited by our occupiers. And yet we still rejoice in our 'freedom.' A freedom for which many of our forbears laid down their lives.

I have no pity.

These comments! They (many) seem so angry and bitter. This narrator may have written the transcript -- quite possible he didn't. All biographies fall short of recreating a complex person. If you don't like it, try writing it yourself.

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Let’s be honest. Victoria was very troubled and there was no help for a troubled Queen.

Her marriage to Albert sounds abusive.

If you’re seeing this comment, 35:00 You are welcome.

If Lord M wasn’t so damn old I’d want her to marry him, instead of pissy Albert.

Yes princess diana was lonley too in love life department after her husband didnt want her after she gave him 2 kids he was busy filling a crocodiles tank up all time... so she like victoria looked elsewhere for love victoria with brown and abdul karim diana with a royal army servant and dr hasnat and dodi later both ended love with muslims lol how irnoic

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She was nothing but a semun dumpster. Constantly getting on the king, but then complaining the being pregnant, having kids, and then being forced to raise them was cramping her style. She shouldn't have been allowed to keep any of them. I'm glad she suffered much in her life and that her husband was out messing around with women who didn't look like her. She was an awful awful person. There was nothing queenly about her. One of the top three worst Queens in history.