"But they were cousin's so that was okay" bruh what even. They were seriously so messed up. Also, Rasputin looks like a rat.

Elizabeth sold all of her possessions, became a nun, devoted her life to the poor and helping people and they still killed her in such a horrible way. Sad.

Rasputin has gotta be the creepiest dude ever.

That poor Elizabeth of Russia. She even sold and gave away all her royal possessions and jewels, became a nun, built a convent, built a hospital, provided medicines to and helped the poor and animals and the Bolsheviks STILL killed her, burnt her alive. Even though she was not in line to the Czar. So horrible. 😢

Everyone is named Victoria and everyone married a cousin, how imaginative.

Queen Maria of Romania will always be remembered and love by us,romanians. She wasn t just a Queen. She was a splendid woman,highly cultured, with many talents. You should read her books and see her paintings. To be english, but become more romanian than romanians, this is something we will never forget.

Victoria: *warns about Rasputin* Alix: Elizabeth: *also warns her* Alix: The people: *hates them and revolution breaks out* Alix: :o

Imagine marrying, then divorcing your first cousin and having to see them at the family bar-b-que 🥴

I feel so sorry for Princess Elisabeth 😭 that was insane

That one story about how they were thrown down and didn’t die from impact, and then had to suffer until they died was so sad 😭

Okay, so what Im getting is WWI was a giant family fight

So sad how how they warned Zarina Alexandra multiple times and it went unheeded

Take a shot every time a cousin/cousin marriage!

this season in " keeping up with the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha's". a family feud turns into ww1 mix with a bit of haemophilia, couple of nazi's and all Victoria's married to their cousins'! what could go wrong

All these people being shocked at all the cousin marriages are obviously new to royal history lmao

Elizabeth went out singing hymns to the Lord, may her strong soul rest easy

If your mutual grandmother is against your divorce, you know something is wrong😂

a movie needs to made about grand duchess Elizabeth. that's a hell of a story!

“They wanted to divorce but their mutual grandmother...” Ok, no sentence should ever start with those words 🤣

Alice’s schizophrenia diagnosis is highly contested especially since she was essentially locked up in an asylum after having a nervous breakdown because of the many tragedies that befell her family. She was born congenitally deaf and it’s actually through her mother’s intelligence and devotion to her children that she noticed it early on and helped her learn to read lips and use sign language in both English and German. I personally don’t think she had schizophrenia and especially back then that term was thrown around and misdiagnosed a lot. That coupled with her deafness, her being a woman, and the wit and courage she exhibited throughout the remainder of her life make me highly doubt the validity of her diagnosis.

I've watched so many of these I'm getting ads for hemophilia medicine.

no one: Incest bad! Queen Victoria's Grandchildren: _So, you have your cousins, and then you have your first cousins, and then you have your second cousins..._

Bless Elizabeth. She's truly a kind soul

Idk why but watching these video’s Are relaxing to Watch and calms me down

i got hemophilia just from watching this

Too many cousins getting married to each other. Can't wait for part 3, more cousins getting married I expect.

“Victoria, nicknamed Ducky, was in love with her first cousin Grand Duke Kirill of Russia, but the Orthodox Church forbid incestual marriages so she instead married her first cousin, the Grand Duke of Hesse.”

Alice children and grandchildren really got the short end of the stick in their family... so many were murdered and exiled.

I’m going to hit my cousin for no reason this thanksgiving. Just setting boundaries

Okay did these kids never get out?? Never meet a non relative??? Every single one was in love with a COUSIN.

the death of elizabeth... omg 😟

3:38 She is not singing to stop the fire, she is singing because she knows she is free 🖤

Having studied many of the children and grandchildren myself, there are some bits of information here that are stated as facts, yet not proven. For example, Prince Philip's mother was committed to mental asylums by her mother, who was embarrassed by her daughter. But, when Alice was able to finally escape after years, she did amazing acts service for the poor and oppressed. Her story alone is amazing.

What is interesting is that while many of Queen Victoria's grandchildren died in early childhood, all 9 of her pregnancies resulted in live births and all of her children survived to adulthood and produced children themselves. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, her 8th child and youngest son, was the youngest to die, at 30, but was the father to the last Duke of Saxe-Comburg Goetha, Edward.

Takes “KISSING COUSINS” to another level 💀

Maria (Romanian version) and her sister Ducky looked so alike that I thought you showed them wrong:)) And damn, do I love Maria! Such a wonderful person in our history, so full of joy to live and of love for a nation that wasn't hers by birth!😍 Also, it was Ferdinand's uncle that died. And one of the provinces is "Bucovina". Ahh sorry I'm commenting so much, I'll shut up now. I enjoy your videos a lot!

Woah! The Story of Elizabeth in this episode NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE! Such a wonderful and yet heartwrenchingly tragic story 😭

"Many tea trays we're thrown" Oml that's hilarious

Why do Czar Nicholas II and George V look like twin brothers

Movie title "Queen Marie of Romania" was awesome. Queen Marie really a fighter.

Most comments: *Poor Elizabeth* Few of the comments: *Ew cousins* Me: *Ooh he built a banana and coffee farm*

The Royals did learn the hard way that inbreeding was a definite health risk. Today’s story was a little hard to follow with all the inbreeding and multiple people all having the same name. So sad about the Nun. Loved that Rasputin was mentioned. Still, the video was very informative.

Ferdinand of Romania was the nephew of Carol of Romania, he did not inherit the throne from his father.

Imagine your grandmother telling you you can't divorce her granddaughter 😂😂😂💀

08:30 George V was not failed saving his cousins, he personally reject their request for asylum (and make it sounds like they rejected by British parlement), and basically put the Russian royal family in a serving dish for their execution. Keep in mind that George V and the Tsar are childhood friends and have a very close bond. Just cold man... But probably thats one of the reasons why British monarcy is still exist until today, I mean, its gonna be a bad PR if he tooked them, causing public roar and possible dethrone by his own ppl.

14:06 if you listen carefully you can hear the sarcasm in her voice

Russian historian in the thread with some additions: Elizabeth married Alexander III's younger brother (and Nicholas II's uncle) Sergey Alexandrovich, but in the evening of the wedding they both gave vows of celibacy -- there marriage was never consummated, which is why they never had their own children. Church claims it was because of their piety: Elizabeth was clearly a very pious woman and an extremely devoted Eastern Orthodox, though you can say it about her husband. Sergey was a frequent guest to several gay brothels and lived a pretty promiscuous life, which became a big thing for Moscow high-class gossipers. He was also a tyrant in Moscow, really fighting the labor movement, which is why he was murdered by radical socialist terrorists in 1905. The children they've adopted were not orphans. Sergey's brother Paul (Pavel) married a daughter of the Greek king (she was Duke of Edinburgh's aunt), but she died after the birth of her second child Dimitri Pavlovich. After that, Pavel declared he wants to marry his divorced mistress, but this marriage would be considered morganatic (equal), therefore excluding Pavel and any of his future children from line of succession. Pavel got into a big argument with his Emperor-nephew about it and decided to live the country. Nicholas II, as the Head of the House, decided that his older children (Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich), who are still in line of succession, should not be influenced by such a father and the children were sent to Grand Duke Sergey and Elizabeth, who didn't have children themselves. Maria Pavlovna later married the second son of Gustav V, King of Sweden, though the marriage wasn't happy and they ended up divorcing (pretty rare thing for royals that time) in 1914. Dimitri Pavlovich became one of the most famous Russian royals at that time, particularly because of his participation in the murder of Rasputin (even though Dimitri wasn't even in the same room with Rasputin while he was shot, Dimitri was the one who had thrown Rasputin's body into a river), but he was also a great friend of Coco Chanel and he introduced her to perfume designer who designed Chanel #5. He married a daughter of an American railroad tycoon and their son was the Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida in 1993-2000. Grand Duchess Elizabeth has founded a big monastery after the death of her husband and became a nun herself. In 1992 she and Varvara (a woman, who was like a friend and a secretary to Elizabeth when Elizabeth was the head of a monastery; Varvara, as a faithful servant, declined to live the sight of Elizabeth, have spent months in house arrest and in prison with her and was later executed with Elizabeth) were both officially declared saints by Russian Orthodox Church (later on, ROC gave sainthood almost to every Romanov who died from bolshevik hands, but Elizabeth is one of those, who were declared saints not only due to the martyrdom, but also due to pious life). Nowadays, there are more than 20 Orthodox churches in the world, which are erected in honor of Saint Reverend Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth.

Elizabeth's story...just wow. Horrifying and uplifting all at once. What an incredible faith she had 💕

I have never heard that Prince Philip's grandmother had anything to do with his care after his mom was put in a sanatorium and his dad ran off to the Riviera. I always heard it was his uncles who saw that he got an education, and more importantly brought him to Britain for that education.

It’s pretty sad that Princess Alice had the most happy family life, yet two of their children died young, she herself died after nursing her entire family to health, and two of her children were killed in such a barbaric way 😞

The beautiful irony that I got a hemophilia psa before this video

I can listen and actually watch your segments. Godspeed

Love your channel so much! My eyes popped out of my head when I saw how much the Current Princess Beatrice, favours her Great Aunt Beatrice. Uncanny.

You mispronounced Sergei. It is pronounced "Sir gay" not "Surge E".

Thank youuuu. One of my most favourite channels for history!!! I love this whole Victorian series!!

You are a consummate storyteller, so far you’re the best I’ve heard, I love listening.

Rasputin looks almost like a Hollywood villain

I discovered your channel when the Part 1 came out, so I watched it, liked, subscribed and waited patiently for Part 2. Great work! I'll keep browsing your videos.

Queen Victoria eye genes are strong af!

Can't help thinking a lot of the family look eerily alike (I mean, George V and Tsar Nicholas look like brothers). I guess that's what happens if cousins marry cousins, then their kids marry their cousins...

How many grandchildren of queen victoria who were 1st cousins married .. WOW!! At least the Russian Orthodox Church thought that was a bad idea!

Yea I’m the person who checked your page everyday waiting for part 2 and 3 lol

I hope Elizabeth's soul (wife of Grand Duke Sergei) was reincarnated somewhere and living the happiest life with her many children and grandchildren because she deserves a second chance at life....

Funfact: the german name Ernst, or rather the adjective "ernst" LITERALLY means serious/grave/solemn :D

Hearing cousins marrying each other . Freak me out.

Ferdinand, married to Maria of Romania, followed his uncle, Carol I, to the throne, as the latter had only a daughter who had died when 3.

Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia is Alfred's great-great-grandson. He was the only child of King Peter II and Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia. His grandmother is Marie of Romania, later Queen of Yugoslavia with her huband Alexander I who was killed in Marseille in 1934.

Thank you so much for the time you put into your videos! I look forward to many more.

I love how the main issue was the Parents didn't get along or when the 1st cousins wanted to get Married. Plus some of them went from one 1st Cousin to another and the main issue again was the Church

Dang, Elizabeth 🤭😰

Lindsay triggered a story from my past.. Many, many years ago my I started to hang around with my female first cousin who lived in the same town.. We were good friends and would meet up in the same coffee shop as we all did.. She was my Father's Sister's daughter.. One day my wonderful brilliant Dad took me aside and explained (the first cousin rule) to me. I still cherish the things he taught me and still remember the many times he saved me from this insanity of this world..God Bless Him a thousand time over... You cannot imagine how much I miss him..

I always look forward to your videos. Have a lovely day!

Alexander III found Alix to be of an unimportant family but its the same family that Alexander’s mother came from lmao

11:19 I'm Romanian and King Carol died in 1914, but he was not Ferninand's father but his uncle

Eagerly awaiting part 3, Lindsay! Love your vids!

10:51 Queen Marie Of Romania...my queen ❤👑

i was trying to be a genealogist. after i watched all 3 episodes i gave up and just watched the crown.

Thanks for posting!!!! Love your videos keep them coming can't wait for part three!!!

I LOVE these queen victoria series😀 you have no idea how much i enjoy this. It's like xix century gossip

*the church didn’t allow first cousin marriages as it was incest* *so she married her first cousin Ernest Louis* ......🤦🏼‍♀️

Love this series. Thanks for your hard work.

Thanks for the upload. Look forward to Part 3,

So many Elizabeths and Victorias. My head hurts 😅 You can't marry one cousin but you can marry another cousin... okay cool ie Duckie - couldn't marry one first cousin but another. Also her story is similar to one of her cousins (I think) - a messy marriage, a divorce and accusations of being gay and a daughter who died at 8 instead of 2

That statue of mother and child broke my heart🙏

"Well...they no longer hold any power, but they're your cousin so it's ok to marry them." The logic of it all astounds me.

Wonderful video again!!! 🤩. I LOVE your videos!!! Wonderful wonderful narration too!!!🤩. Keep up your wonderful work!!!💕

In Goldendale WA, there is a an art museum that holds a collection of items from Queen Marie of Romania. When she traveled to the US she befriended the man who built the home and eventually left her things to his collection. Check out Maryhill Museum and Stonehenge replica.

why is everyone falling in love with their cousins?!

Waiting for part 3 is going to be hard...

Very well made and reaserched. I am very impressed and delighted!😊

I live for these videos.. thank you so much. We need around 1 million more if that's do able xx

Government: We are not okay with you marrying your cousin. Its incest. Also Government: You can marry your 1st cousin. Me: Its still incest!

Love that Brandenburg concerto!

Queen Victoria is my great great grandmother.On one picture you can see her and me when she carried me on her arms.She was strong,wonderful and warm.

My Tuesday is now complete!

Marie is my favorite.PERIODT!! She was the queen of my country yah,but ive seen the movie ,loved it.she was amazing

Comments: what? They married their cousin?? Their first cousin??? History: you must be new here

My great great grandfather was named Arthur Plantaganet Grey and was Alfred's good friend! They met at school through rowing, and they sailed the world together... One census puts them in Jamaica, the other off the coast of West Africa. Apparently their friends often referred to them as "Artie and Alfie" according to a letter Lady Anne Lamb (neé Grey, Arthur's older sister). I have a copy of her portrait that was painted on her presentation to the Queen, and she married the Baronet Charles Lamb soon after

"Mutual Grandmother" Never thought I'd hear those words

Don't marry your cousins, it will make biographies of your grandparents descendants repeat.