so what if a million Irish starved under her rule

@@mattosullivan9687 She would still have been someone who wanted friends and to live a normal life but happened to be a queen that had a million Irish starving under her rule.

The point is she could have done something to stop it but did not

@@mattosullivan9687 Yeah I know but she would still have wanted friends and to live a normal life xD

Lol, she wasn't misunderstood. She endured serious trauma for sure, but she took that out on countless offspring and grandoffspring. She ended up far more abusive and horrid than her mother. Nutter.

If you're doing it right! 👍

Proof that she was a fully functional human being. If she was a commoner she would have been great company.

I thought the same thing too.

My father spoke 3 languages, and I can curse in all 3 of them !

After “how much is that drink?” and “where’s the toilet?”, that is.

Yep, it look 17 years for Vic to get the throne after George #3 died!

I was now about to comment this same thing lol

Me, too!

me three, as a person who reads alot of history

Geez, guess I need to read the comments to get the true details.

remarkable, um... she was just there to pop kids. let's be honest .

"The Widow of Windsor" Queen Victoria.

Still, Prince Alemayu’s corps is still in Britain, and they don’t want to return him to Ethiopia.

I know right? Love her!

@@PHlophe Learn about the WOMAN - she did far more than just pop kids. Most women of the era did that anyway.

he had his own problems(being crippeled from birth in a miltaristic family) so maybe she could understand his suffering better which connect them.

Certainly she much preferred her Grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II to her son Bertie who succeeded her as King Edward VII. Indeed I believe one the main reason why Britain made an alliance with the French was King Edward's way at getting back at his mother. Edward despised his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm. Also Victoria was very pro German.

Fraz she died in his arms, apparently.

interesting. HER OTHER GRANDCHILD was the prince of Wales. THEY PHYSICALLY FOUGHT aT HER Death bed.

@@joshgordon8369 . I believe the Prince of Wales, at the time, was her son Bertie, whom she despised. After her death Bertie became King Edward VII, who despised his NEPHEW Kaiser Wilhelm II.

And that hemophilia did a lot to hurt the royalty of countries her daughters married into.

@@RachelG1979 RIP The Romanovs. Although hemophilia was just one of their problems.

@@IudiciumInfernalum well hemophilia made the romanov close to rasputin and all the misfortunes started from there

Oh I'm sure she's an eventuality. So many people, places and events to give a Biographic on! We'll be seeing stuff for years. Such a good idea for a channel. XD

Definitely! You're abs right, there are so many people in history to do a video on! That's why I think this is a brilliant channel

I'd love to see this. My parents stayed in the bedroom of one of the castles she used to try and escape. There's still cannon marks! My leopard gecko who has white feet is named Mary, Queen of Socks.

*Scots - source, am a Scott.

Jeremy Brookes no Mary Queen of Scots was much braver more dignified more romantic and much more daring and interesting which is why Elizabeth 1 had her imprisoned and murdered

I had to go through the horrible histories song to check this You're right

William the IIV?

IV* sorry 😀

How could an English man get this wrong???😳

You're right, I noticed the same thing.

probably meant to mean autobiographer

Elizabeth I also was a scholar

So was Catharine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII.

The book on demonology was an odd kind of book. It was partially responsible for the gullible condemning so many poor unfortunate women to be burnt at the stake. It wasn't a pleasant book and not popular. Victoria's book sold well,

What about James 1st/V1 attack on smoking which most of the world excepts as correct some 400 years plus after publication.

Haha, amazing. Thanks for watching :). Glad to help!

Hook up with Simon

My boyfriend and I get soothed by your voice every night.

Absolutely, the man is definitely an awesome teacher , you can tell he was born to teach . I've learned alot from watching his videos. Don't change Simon you've given knowledge that most people never learn , thank you.

THIS. I hated when my kids where babies, however I utterly adore and love them completely but when they were babies. They were draining and incredibly tiring, even the pleasant memories or few and far between

She wasn't nice to her daughters tho

Hahahahaha, queen Victoria was a victor. Now, you know Victoria's secret

When her son Edward was an adult, Victoria remarked that she hoped to outlive him!

​@@charliefarmer4365That's because he was a bit wild when he was young and she blamed Albert's death on him in that his shenanigans, which really weren't big but Albert had a big stick up as you know what usually, hastened his death. That's why she disliked her son.

What about the Crimean War, The Boer Wars, Invasion Of Mexico, etc?

Jade Kilgallon well idk why you’re so rude about it but basically it’s like saying president bush never led a war. True he never stood at the rear of an army and commanded it but he was certainly involved. That’s how people are seeing it. She was definitely involved in several wars, she just never personally lead one (in person)

these were conflicts not war, in her reign, britain became the most powerful nation in the world, and this title stood after her too maybe until WW2

@@gutsjoestar7450 no

He's probably referring to the fact she was a constitutional monarch and didn't actually get involved in the politcal process.

she's in hell

@@travishylton6976 Ah that's too bad

yeah he thought that albert would be able to get him more money for belgium

I never heard that either. You are correct she liked sex. The kids were just an inconvenience to her til they got older.

Well said

It’s a KZfaq video if you want it to be altra accurate then read her actual biography’s. Leave bio alone. KZfaq is not supposed to be that accurate.

@@aidanday5497 Seriously? If you're making a video of facts about a person, they shoud be facts, don't you think? I bet you think the animated movie Anastasia is a true story.

Barbara Melone no George IV and William IV were the two elder brothers

As well as the South African War

And the Boer War

He said "she never led the country through war" referring to the fact that she literary never led the wars, she wasn't versed in war and even if she was her government wouldn't have listened to her. The most popular monarchs in the UK tent to be the ones that won them wars (yes, even Elizabeth I), the fact that she was so popular despite not being truly involved in the militaristic side of things is very impressive.

@@melissabarrera8913 That's splitting hairs, it seems. Victoria was the head of state and the face of England.

@@melissabarrera8913 Who has a popular monarch ? I can't stand any of them.

Chicken Draws Dogs love the analogies, lol

Yes, and no. She was... Timeless, immortal, enduring.

Wasn't her father he died either before her birth or when she was one. It was her mother and her fathers chief adviser, they wanted to keep her cowed,so they could almost rule her particularly if she became Queen before her 18 the birthday Her Uncle William 1V knew this and although in very poor health,swore he would hang on till she was ,18 He only just made it,he died a few weeks after her birthday. She ostracised her mother and her friend for a while,but under ,Albert's good influence, she eventually forgave her,and they did become friends

Victoria met her half siblings when she was a child. The Dutchess of Kent didn't have her elder children live with her but she wasn't given some dramatic choice.

Uh no. Victoria knew her half-siblings and was close to her half-sister Feodora. But they were like 15 years older than her, so by the time she was like 10, they were already married and everything

How was she widowed before she had his children? What he impregnated her as a ghost?

We are not amused!

Spoilers!!!

The what?

Please keep the obsessive fan nonsense at a minimum.

Daenerys Stormborn Of The House Targaryen Your Highness, with all due respect... Henry the 8th is not a woman, I believe? I support the idea though. 😆

@@Mari-hb5do I know I was talking about the women I mentioned but put him in there as an idea I'm actually well educated on the Tudors.

*@Sally Jane Willis* Yeah, that Henry VIII: a right proper "iconic woman", he was ({; D ...!! i sincerely do like your other 'suggested nominees' though, actually ({: D ...!

Why is everyone so butt hurt about the Henry the 8th thing? I meant for it to be secondary to Anne Boleyn like focus on his treatment towards her... x

@@sallyjanewillis6810 I'm actually surprised you replied after how many years bro 🤣🤣

Chill out cousin Willy stop acting so silly

Emperor Uriel Septim VII you’ll be tripping by flipping the bird willy-nilly!

The weapons of the triple entente mighty, Russia, France and this bitch Blighty

You imperial bigots, you hate the French!

Aidan Campbell with their snail-sucking, frog-cooking garlic stench!

Classy is a vulgar term.

@@ingriddubbel8468 how?

The uterus is not involved in sex though lol. It's not the same as the vagina

Not as much of an obstacle as you might think.

It’s interesting that any Queen (or other powerful women in history) always have so much speculation about their sex lives. It’s really unimportant in the big picture who Victoria did or didn’t have sex with. If she and John Brown had a romantic relationship and it brought her comfort after Albert’s death...who really cares if they were sexually intimate (with or without intercourse)?

However there are other forms of intimacy in a relationship than vaginal sex. And I'm also talking about the warmth between lovers that is beyond sex, where you are soulmates. She seems to have had that with Albert who was a strength to her.

@@amasion2882 Thank you. She needed a soulmate I believe to be an anchor for her. Being a figurehead she couldn't show weakness, but she did and was criticized for it. Brown stabilized her.

That’s not true at all lol. She wrote in her diary that she adored him aswell and found his eyes brilliant.

@@bakedpotato3169 no they had met before but it wasn't for the same reason it was a little random but it wasn't love at first sight... Then when he formally met her she made those comments.

Read up what happened to Indians when my India was under her colonial rule. My India cried and cried.

John Walsh or George the VI ?

@@jsvmvp7740 all the George's would be good. George I & II non english speakers running England, George III's loss of America, George IV aka "fat George", George V & WWI and George VI & WW II

"Edward the caresser"

@@trentBowie although he was known for his affairs he should also be remembered as being a champion for the working class and the poor and his hatred of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism

I do admire the Victorians, its amazing how many life changing things were invented by them, and the very next generation. Flush toilets, telephones, bicycles, radio, photography, motorcars , anaesthetics. painkillers. Antiseptics, the list goes on and on. Its as if there was a splurge of extra clever people born around that time..They changed the world for the good

Forgot to mention Trains and the Postal system

Thank you.

Mine too since I live in a city named after her

Well don't take this video as a real account of her life. She is one of my favorites too, and there are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much wrong information on this video.

Mine too. Who doesnt love the queen that turned half of the Chinese people into drug addicts?

@@KonEl-BlackZero of course, because she was personally in charge of the government... It was not a decision of her government...

@@KonEl-BlackZero take your little smart ass sarcasm out and i agree!

You're the first one to point that out.

was about to point this out, Zulu etc etc....Victoria Cross

It depends what you mean by "leading" because she herself, as a woman and a monarch in an increasingly dangerous military environment, couldn't go to fight with her troops and never went to visit them like her grandson did because they were in such far flung places. As such, although she was the monarch during those wars, she wasn't a leader/general type. The last monarch to lead their troops in battle was George II who fought at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. Sorry for the rant, its just up to interpretation I guess, although you're right in the fact that there are more mistakes...

@@mattcousins3 and yet millions of men, women and children died in those "internment camps". Just like the nazis did with the Jews. Where did you think the nazis got the idea of concentration camps? Do your research before you speak.

@@OnThePath777 do you have any source for those "millions" of deaths?

Sirius Draconis they were worse than the American internment camps, but they were far from as horrible as the nazi camps. The British camps were mostly to protect the civilians.

Yes, she was just 8 months old when her father's died and her mother didn't have even the money to come back to London due her husband had lost wasted the money, so uncle Leopold took financial care of her sister and niece.

Gaelic right?

? Elaborate you mut.

Well there was the war in India, Ireland, Crimea, the Boer war, the opium wars, the scramble for Africa to name a few. The British were insanely devoted to colonialism under Queen Victoria it was under her that the sun never set on the British empire.

HE DIDNT SAY THERE WERE NO WARS HE SAID SHE DIDNT LEAD ANY WARS. WHICH SHE DID NOT.

You almost have to laugh at how many wars many of Britain's female monarchs started or continued. Elizabeth I picked fights with the Spanish for example. So much for "Girls are more peaceful".

@@toni5543 Maybe she didn't start new wars but she was still a terrible leader who is responsible for a lot of bloodshed.

communist "educated" in moscow, stalinist, butchered all opponents, responsible for murdering 200 000 people after ww2, nationalized private properties in yugoslavia, led country with americans credits, his legacy is bloody war...

@@lawmaker22 did someone ask for your opinion about him?? no. so shut up

@@lawmaker22 he said Josip Broz Tito. No idea who the hell you were talking about. How about ya open a few books before you open your mouth. :p

@@CagedBoy no, what he said was right and completely true. How about you try to learn more real facts about him and stop listening to your grandma's stories of how 'you could sleep on a bench'?

@@CagedBoy Deluje kao da su ti roditelji previse isprali mozak komunistickom propagandom.

Agreed. This and Visualpolitik are my favs of his 4 channels. He has a person vlog channel but he doesn't use it as much lately. Still, I love this channel. Love. Wish I could move to Czech and help them produce these vids.

Ik your comment is old but I started noticing people in other videos point out a lot of wrong facts in his videos so he makes a lot of errors which is a shame

I'm leaving right now

Apparently she couldn't stand Albert (Edward VII), thinking he was in no way suited to become king.

thank you for this

@@moshemankoff7488 He would be a typical young man and like to have a good time having many mistresses in the process. Prince Albert was always worrying about Edward and chasing him around trying to get him to be more respectable. Prince Albert died during this period and Queen Victoria forevermore blamed her son Edward for his death she did not like him very much after that.

@irish Kelly I don’t believe that she was as malevolent as the nickname suggests, but if you’re to believe prominent historians of Irish history such as Christine Kinealy and Enda Delaney, she isn’t as compassionate as your post implies. I don’t recall ever reading/hearing about her urging the British parliament to take more action, unless your source is ITV’s Victoria. On the contrary, the PM had to urge her to take action, and she subsequently issued a Queen’s letter requesting protestant famine relief donations. A year into the famine, she proposed to give a personal donation of £1,000 (Only four times the amount that the royal servants had collected amongst themselves). The Secretary of the Relief Association, Stephen Spring Rice, refused the payment and protested that she increase the payment. It was only after that she doubled the amount with a promise of further contributions if necessary (she only donated a further £500). To put that into perspective. The Sultan of Turkey initially offered £10,000, but scaled back to £1,000 after being told it would breach royal protocol and offend the Queen if he were to donate more. This was throughout a period that Ottoman Empire battled an economic crisis which later resulted in the empire becoming bankrupt, a stark contrast to Queen Victoria’s empire reaching its pinnacle whilst she held the title of the world’s wealthiest woman. The cynic in me believes that her donation served to relax tensions and maintain stability within Ireland as the Irish had a favourable view of the monarchy when compared to the British state. She isn’t to blame for the famine, we all know who and what is. But she could have done a considerable amount more.

@irish Kelly My disagreement was with your claim that she pushed Parliament and made a considerable donation. (or just the overall all sentiment that she was compassionate in the face of the British Government). Again, the Queen’s letter was released after she was encouraged to respond to the crisis by PM Russell. I’m not sure why you’re reiterating the fact as if it was an altruistic act of her behalf. She did receive a relatively warm welcome. But as I said, a number of Irish already had a favourable view of the monarchy, which is why I believe it was a symbolic donation to help maintain stability and power in Ireland. Hatred of both the British state and monarchy would only have exacerbated diplomatic tensions. Regardless, I don’t see this as a redeeming factor; we all know that history can tell a different story when the facts are revealed. Regarding the Pope. First, I have no idea what 1,000 Roman Crowns equates to. Second, as I said previously, she initially proposed a £1,000 donation before being persuaded to offer more. A figure far less than Lord Conroy received for his yearly pension (as noted in the video above). Spring Rice’s protest is a very telling incident of how much concern she really had. She didn’t have the power of her forefathers, but she served as the moral voice of the Empire and had a far bigger influence than Queen Elizabeth currently has. You couldn’t fathom the Bedchamber Crisis occurring today. As the apparent moral authority, she could have at least urged Parliament as you suggested she did. I don’t believe there was a single villain either. The entire regime was at fault, both past and contemporary. It can be dated back to the Cromwellian plantations, existing power structures, the effects of Penal Laws and as you mentioned, the Lassez-faire politics and the infamous Corn Laws of the day which was repealed all too late. It’s far more complicated than that of course, but for the sake of anyone’s time, I’ll leave it there. Simply put - previous and existing British policies and laws caused the famine, whereas the response exacerbated and prolonged it. Unfortunately for Victoria, she epitomised the entire government’s inaction. She was by far the most recognisable figure of the Empire. Her response reflected the Lassez-faire politics of the day. She may have been labelled the “Famine Queen” as a result of exaggerated tales, but the reality isn’t that far from the truth.

She doesn't have the power to help Ireland because the power to do that is the parliament while she was just a political figurehead that had no say in government policy.

@@johnnyfives5416 I'm aware of that John. If you read on you'll understand the justification for the name "Famine Queen", at least in my view.

she became queen at a really bad time though.

Padum Tshh!

Omg. Yup. For sure. 😂😂

True, it would confuse those poor Americans...despite the US officially adopting metrication, yet failing to implement it.

Owain Shebbeare not gonna lie to you when I watch something on KZfaq from a british person and they say “meters” instead of “feet” I am lost.

It would be easy with online converters in every hand

Trayxxxx yes. The goths copied her style.

She sounds more emo than goth...

No.

no, emos complain about perceived fictional pain they've invented for attention, her pain was quite real and rightly so @@apgmk1970

She popularised wearing black while mourning and for funerals.

The Diaries havnt been " dug up" as you put it. The Diaries are available for anyone to read, there is nothing written in them about a toxic relationship with Albert, they loved one another from the start, of course they had the odd row ,what married couple hasn't. She supported him in all his achievements, she took great pleasure in his extrsordinary success with the Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace. and he threw himself in front of her when one of the several attempts were made on her life.

I don't mind commercials they on my last seconds before you can skip it. Its better then having to pay for the subs you want to have & watch. They have to make _$ to do these and keep new ones coming the more $$ they make the longer & better looking videos. It's hundreds of these on U-tube. You see they charge for songs I remember they charge for ring tones. Them $1 bucks add up. No debit card we fucked, I'm glad and love we can watch nice entertaining videos for free

Some "facts" in the video are not accurate, like Prince Albert being part of an evil plot... Even drama TV shows make that kind of assumption Lol But a interesting fact about the couple is: Queen Victoria saved Albert from death when he falls in the ice lake, their children wasn't born yet and if she didn't have rescued him the History would be different today. That's a dramatic but real fact

I know, I’d really like to, it’s just been hard to find the time lately :-)

Biographics Oh okay, It would be great if you get the time, but don’t stress about it. :)

*Skorzeny

@Jason BouphasavanhI'm Irish All my family loved Victoria, Its only the loud mouths that " hate anything British" on both sides of my family we feel very British, No we don't live in the North we live in Dublin, Cork and Sligo mainly. You don't hear a lot from us because there is always the danger of being kneecapped or worse, The Disappeared ( another polite word for " the murdered" ) My family on both sides fought in both world wars and possibly further back. Proud to be British

@Jason Bouphasavanh why do you say " thank goodness" that us very I silting to Korean people,,I hope you feel it only right to apologise for your racist remark