Queen Victoria's Childhood & Siblings 

Seems so logical that they would’ve had much more influence had they been kind and insured they she would want them to stay around.

I mean.... I deffo wouldn't say it made her stronger - In fact it made her notoriously damaged and flawed. I'm torn between empathy for what we would consequentially today identify as a personality disorder and trauma, vs. disapproval that she didn't want better for her own children....who she treat with such disdain and retaliation. Even today, people have children without thoroughly contemplating whether they're fit enough. I can personally attest.

So true

@Alex-zs7gw Both can be true. Conroy’s influence was meant to create a weak timid personality who always deferred to her mother, who deferred to Conroy. Instead, Victoria developed an independent personality who could be persuaded against her own interests and what she believed to be right.

Victoria was just as bad or worse to her own children

I mean I bully my children but not like that. I also encourage their intelligence and will to learn

Yeah! It is the natural order of things for children to make the lives of their parents miserable, but it is a despicable thing for a parent to make the life of their child miserable.

​@@cameronmoore2713 Children are difficult to raise, yes, but people know that going into it. If children are a misery maybe don't have them, or use the resources out there to figure out how to not let parenting be a misery. Again, I'm not saying it's easy or fun process. No child should be made to feel they are hated in the one structure society provides to support them, family is supposed to be a support not a drain.

​​@@cameronmoore2713 Also if you remember what it feels like to be a child treated this way, why wouldn't you go out of your way to try and make sure that as a parent you don't treat them that way? Why resent the children You chose to have and then get mad they're resentful of you? It's not right, and I am sorry people in your life (children or not) made you feel that way (now and maybe then).

I never knew Victoria had siblings. Thank you for this history lesson.

​@@lilbatz I knew she had a sister but forgot abiut the brother

True

In this alone he was absolutely correct. And actually did what was best for the kingdom.

1000%

Large part of the credit for it goes to wife Adelaide. She got him to sober up, exercise more and eat healthier during their marriage.

I’ve always heard that she had 2 half siblings, but no one ever mentioned them, so I thought they died young, like most young kids those days.

Oh yeah, she was a wild one, love her!

That is really cool information thank you 😊 🙏

@@heindlwest It would’ve been nigh on impossible to get away with murdering your niece. It doesn’t help that we don’t actually know how much validity there was to the accusations against Ernest as he had many political enemies who had every reason to tarnish his reputation, as he was very active in the House of Lords. So I suppose we’ll never know

I think it’s really interesting that princess Eugenie named her sons August and Ernest.

@@ravenzyblack Funny enough, those names have nothing to do with previous Ernest Augustus’s in the royal family. August gets his name from Prince Albert (Victoria’s husband), who’s second given name was August, and Ernest gets his name from George V, who’s third given name was Ernest.

movies too...

It would've been amazing to see a Carolinian era with her with the crown and her son as heir, but we have Charles now, so I guess there's our Carolinian era

She was NOT "Open hearted" LoL! Maybe as a child but not as an adult and she was a particularly awful, controlling and cold Mother. She treated her children horribly. She rarely saw them when they were children.

Charlotte died giving birth to her first child, who was stillborn. How could she had been awful mother, when she never had a living child? Are you by any change mixing Charlotte and Victoria here?

@@SlimKeith11 theyre talking about charlotte not victoria

​@@SlimKeith11 Charlotte as princess of wales not Queen Charlotte as her grandmother

Yes, it happens so much, that many people do not know much about their heritage. It is fascinating to learn about family trees. I would love to step back in time to meet so many, and hear their life stories.

To be honest, Albert’s paintings were accurate. He was very handsome, great body and tall if you see photographs of him as a young man. There’s around two or three floating around the internet. People often commented about his good looks in letters as well. The only thing was he aged very quickly due to being sickly, so he lost his looks at an early age (around mid 30s). People commented on that too. How he looked much older than his age, once he started approaching his 40s. That was probably because he was basically slowly dying at that point. I agree that Victoria wasn’t much of a looker though and her paintings were flattering.

Because photographs of a 50-year-old woman who had borne nine children without competent medical care are so very likely to represent exactly what she looked like at nineteen. 🙄

@mehere8299 There are actually numerous photographs of her from even when she was young. The first ever photograph of Victoria was taken when she was 23. Her paintings portray her to look like a cherubic, fairytale princess's but in reality.... she clearly wasn't.

Queen Victoria def had RBF lol so I don’t blame the court painters for giving her a softer look, they got her bone structure and chubby cheeks right usually though

Rbf?

I was wondering why that hair looked so distinctly 1840's lol

Unfortunately, it was the normal perspective at the time that the right way to parent children was to install genuine fear into them. They believed that was what made children good, respectable God-fearing Christians. Never give then room or an opportunity to make a single mistake that may not only ruin their lives but send them to hell for all eternity. That's what, and still, what some people, believe about raising children. Unfortunately, some people and current trends have taking it too far the other way. Giving children no rules, no standards, no boundaries, no morals, no protection. I've been working with children for most of my life and finally about to become a parent myself. I don't believe in being drill sergeant strict with no exceptions, but I don't believe in being loosey goosey either. I have to protect my children from unnecessary things, but I can't shelter my child either. I can teach my child right and wrong and about Jesus, but I can't expect my child to so-called perfect. I do want my child to develop his or her own mind and own person, while hopefully knowing right and wrong, which isn't always black and right, even from person to person. I want my child to behave well and not give teachers and others too much grief (good luck on that one), but I also don't want my child to be robot oriented and be easily mowed over by others. There's a perfect balance to everything. We're going to make mistakes as parents, but we can learn from those mistakes and learn how to work together as a family, just like our families do. Love, guidance, some discipline, support, and respect are the basics.

Same boat! I hate monarchies in general and especially the UK’s but I’m a huge history buff 😭

Nah that’s just a British thing

stop talking nonsense. What treatment of Ireland?

@@glen7318 the famine, obviously

This makes me wonder what his son was like

It may have kept her safe, but at the cost of her mental and social health deteriorating.

Yes. According to The Royal Diaries Victoria May Blossom of Brittania England, 1829, her mother really struggled with her English, if she learned it at all. Sir John Conroy, Victoria's father's comptroller, would roar at Victoria's mum for speaking German and not English.

Yes, he was a pos. He stole money from queen Victoria's elderly aunt, princess Sophia.

No

He knew too much. He was essentially bribed with another knighthood and an annuity to keep quiet.

dont talk such absolute rot.

Feodora was actually in the TV series.

And their descendant (granddaughter, Frederika) became mother of King Constantine [of Greece], his sister Queen Sophia of Spain, and princess Irene (unm.).

She didn't call her dog King Charles, that was the breed: King Charles Cocker Spaniel. Its name was Dash. Also, King Charles III is Victoria's great-great-great grandson; but he wasn't named after her dog.

@@kimberlysmith2299 she said she called him King Charles in this video. Also my first comment was in jest. I don’t really believe her grandson named himself after his grandmas dog.

@@terarosen7909 since his parents chose his name it would be very silly if you meant that.