The Secrets Inside Queen Victoria's Diaries | A Monarch Unveiled (1/2)| Real Royalty 

If she says her childhood is sad, why don't they just believe her? At 18:40 the host keeps insisting she had a "happy childhood" depsite her mentioning her childhood was horrible and unhappy. This is probably one of the reasons why she likes to journal so much - because even if she tells someone about her unhappy childhood, they'll say "well, you're a princess and you've got everything you want and need so what's there to be unhappy about?" So sad. Also, I really disagree with them calling Victoria a "callous daughter" at 34:36. How she treated her mother is a reflection of how her mother treated her. When she was so sick, her mother didn't show an ounce of concern for her, instead thought that she was faking it and colluded with an outsider for her to give up her rights. *That* is what I would call callous. And saying Victoria is callous for ignoring her is ridiculous. Her mother never seemed to care much for Victoria, instead using her as a pawn for political power. So why did she expect the same care to be given back to her? Idk why this documentary seems so intent on vilifying Victoria. Would be better if they just laid out what was said in her diary instead of interpreting it. We don't really need your interpretation. We can interpret it for ourselves.

Why am I so interested in these history of the royals so much ??! Been binging for like a whole week now

narrator: Britain’s longest reigning monarch. Queen Elizabeth II: **laughs in immortal**

I work in a museum with many of Victoria’s letters, and I had to clean one (with a soft brush). If you have clean, dry hands you can usually hold paper fine. While transferring this letter from case to table I obviously had to hold it, and my right thumb was, for twenty seconds, (delicately) pressed against Queen Victoria’s signature.

No longer the longest reigning monarch. Queen Elizabeth holds that distinction now. ❤❤❤❤

Just because Victoria had happy moments in her childhood doesn't mean she was exaggerating. It's normal to change our perceptions of our past as we develop nostalgia for it. The COVID pandemic lockdown showed us how hard it can be to be isolated. Imagine being raised excluded from the world, with every aspect of your life controlled and with virtually zero privacy. I would call that an unhappy childhood. Her happy memories look more like oasis in the desert to me.

They all have such a magnificent cursive hand writing

I don’t think being so isolated makes for a happy childhood. Toys and a dog only does so much for socialization. I’m not a fan of how they made Victoria out to be exaggerating the situation.

She was NOT a callous daughter she was neglected by her mother. Toxic is toxic and she treated her accordingly!

The presenter standing next to tree, travelling in train ,mimicking Victorias mother is so funny 🤣

This Royal documentaries are so addictive. I can't stop watching them.

The lady who is reading the letters and diary has the most beautiful, pleasant to the ear and calming voice I have ever heard. I could listen to her reading for hours and hours 😊❤️

It's wonderful to listen to someone that have deep knowledge of his subject, instead of the usual talking heads.

I am Mexican American and it is one of my biggest dreams to travel and visit historic sites throughout Europe. The castle’s, scenery, food, and museums, I want to experience it all.

Just because a person is well off and has many things doesnt mean they had a good childhood. And good moments in childhood do not negate pain and trauma. I can identify with Voctoria in many ways - although i am not fabulously wealthy or a royal.

The film ‘the young Victoria’ gives a fantastic account of all this! Very underrated and highly accurate in many ways!

Victoria’s daughter Princess Alice is a great grandmother of Prince Philip Mountbatten , and Victoria’s son King Edward VII was the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth. That’s how the royal family rolled

The woman who reads the Queen Victoria’s journal is very good! So sweet!

Victoria: 14 is a tad young... Man: Victoria was frightfully jealous

In Ireland Victoria is known as the "Famine queen" the irish famine started 1845 - 1852 and while the English might think her great, the Irish view her a lot differently. Millions evicted, million emigrated and over a million died as a result of the Famine. There are memorials in most towns in Ireland to the devastating effects of the Famine which happen in what was a province of Great Britain at that time. Help was offered by Ottoman sultan with aid on three ships one of the ships got through into Dundalk by breaking a blockade and as a result, Drogheda football team have as part of there club crest a crescent moon in recognition. The Turks also offered 10,000 pounds but British civil servants said "that that was too much and could be embarrassing for queen Victoria and 1000 would be better as it was less than her 2000 pounds. American choctaw Indian tribe sent 200 dollars in aid, a sizable sum at the time and is acknowledged even today by the Irish people. While Victoria may have been insulated by her government civil servants from the happenings in Ireland at this time she was queen of what was at that time a wealthiest and massive empire well capable of helping its people on literally its doorstep. Nobody is perfect and Victoria is just a person born into privilege with so called title and could have done more by careing more for the people of Ireland better. In the early 2000's Tony Blair acknowledged the failure of the British government at that time to ease the suffering of the Irish and apologized. This act of apology was well received in Ireland.

This narrator doing the absolute most with those impersonations! XD

Just because she played with toys and had a dog doesn't mean she was treated well as a child. Just saying.

this guy is the mvp. He's going hard with the accents. Really brings the different individuals alive.

We have to remember that Queen Victoria's Mother (The Duchess of Kent) died 16 March 1861,and Prince Albert died 14 December 1861,that is enough to turn anyone's head.

Victoria: I had a unhappy childhood. People who never knew her, speaking for a TV show: Victoria had a happy childhood. Victoria: Who the F**k are these people?

A small anecdote:~ Victoria (aged 70) was dining with her household (approx 30 people).When someone was passing wind very loudly.She rose from the table and walked to an ante room(accompanied by her lady in waiting Lady Mallet)Later (when she had retired to bed) the whole household asked Lady Mallet,"Was the Queen very angry?" she said "No, all I could hear through the door were peals of laughter"

I think Princess Beatrice looks like Queen Victoria. Those huge eyes. She could play the part of the Queen.

Her daughter edited her diaries? All the good stuff is gone then...

funny how Victoria and King Christian of Denmark both became the grandparents of European royalty. The interconnectedness of all the European royal families continues until today.

That impersonation at 34:40 though 😂😂😂

Love these documentaries - wittily presented, informative, fun, insightful. Bravo!

Victoria LOVED Albert with a passion! Oh to get my hands on the original diaries!!

Victoria was a woman of great appetites; she had an addictive personality. She was obsessed with Albert, with sex, and with food. She wasn't much of a mother, however. She hated being pregnant, and she saw no use in being involved with the upbringing of her children. She seldom gave a thought to what would make THEM happy; rather, she cared only for what they could do to make HER happy.

Please note the sarcasm here* I "love" how a child having dolls and a dog to dress up in the backyard constitutes as a good childhood. When clearly her stepfather was bullying her and that just gets brushed aside because she had dolls and a dog!? 🙄

I think her relationship with her mother affected her maternal instincts to her own children.

Elizabeth II is now longest reigning monarch!

Wild to see the way her abuse as a child is downplayed as her overreacting. Narcissists are great at playing the victim, it's obvious her mother was one. Victoria was clearly mourning the relationship she never had, much like happens to abuse victims today.

I have always been interested in the history of Queen Victoria and Albert. Would be so interesting to read those diaries. I liked hearing about how both like the Scottish Highlands.

The accent is a natural one. He is speaking the Queen’s English.

Thank you so much for this channel. I can’t get enough monarch history.

Well, longest-reigning monarch before Queen Elizabeth II. This must be an old video.

She probably outed everybody for what they really were!

Thank goodness the King was such a great uncle to her & basically willed himself alive until hrh Victoria reached maturity. How different things would’ve turned out to be if he hadn’t been able to do that. Just bc 100% of your days growing up weren’t exactly drenched in misery doesn’t mean there was no abuse, bullying or maltreatment going on. Ppl, especially young girls, don’t just divorce/banish their mothers from their life @ the 1st possible opportunity for no reason. Some of these historians need to get a damn clue😤

Albert & Victoria was a great union & love story! He learned to let her be queen but found out how to be the man of the house & daddy. Queen Elizabeth's Prince was great at it also.

A wonderful documentary put together by thoughtful people. Very educational in a stimulating way. Looking forward to the next video on Victoria. The gentleman who is the presenter is quite splendid with a delightful accent that’s perfect. Thank you very much.

Being a future queen was not easy for a child to have such happy childhood. Adults hoped to control everything just to set them into the most powerful position as well So the only thing they must do was keeping her on their plans in every seconds. So I believe that little princess Vitoria had unhappy childhood as she wrote in her journal.

Princess Vicky fell in love with Prince Fritz at first sight at 14, with an older man in a meeting engineered by her family? Sounds like the first meeting between our own 13 year old Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh engineered by their uncle Mountbatten

Just because someone loves you doesn't mean the relationship is necessarily worth it.

The current Princess Beatrice looks so much like her it is uncanny. Their profiles are identical.

I can see a lot of Queen Victoria in Princess Beatrice.

Such an endearing reading of a queen's passionate life! Thank you, Mr. A.N. Wilson

14 and 23, God! Of course she ' loved ' him, a child she still was.

Great way to fill in the gaps, so to speak. Woe to these ones

She had a lot growing up to do as a teenage queen.

The current Queen has lived through ten times more than Queen Victoria ever did

An absolutely beautiful telling. More please❤️

in a biography of queen mary, it states that she herself was born in the same rooms as Victoria.

How revealing and beautiful. Thank you for this upload

I love reading and hearing about Queen Victoria. I find her multi- faceted and a mass of contradictions (just like me in fact) but ultimately a “real” person with kindness and empathy when needed Maybe I just feel she comes across as very real and did not put on a facade regarding who she was whether that be mother, friend, or in fact, Queen

Nowadays the second longest-reigning monarch after Queen Elisabeth II.

Thank you so much for this wonderful historical experience ... so interesting snd enjoyable!

Great doc!... I think it's my 3rd time watching. Thanks for posting good quality, well produced documentaries. I actually knew most of what was presented, but I guess I never tire of excellent UK history! ~Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦

Queen Victoria's penmanship was so beautiful. I do not think the Queens journals should be public. These were her personal, private thought and feelings. Every part of her belonged to her country...these should not be public in life or death.💎

Exciting documentary!!! Longing for the second part.

Wow, I find these fascinating. Her feelings for her husband and jealousy towards her children, is soo relatable and real. I can’t stop watching this, she was formidable but also so naive with men because she never knew her father. But her relationships with all the different men in her life is just so down to earth. When my home town ramsgate was shown and spoken of I felt a real sense of pride for this queen. Wow! Thankyou.

I love learning about the Royals too, just like so many other people. I’d have to say that by far Queen Victoria and Princess Diana are my absolute faves!

That was good Janine, worrying but good, & thought provoking.

Amazing how much more educated we were before TV and RU-vid.

I am American so I really don't understand the monarchy. But I find this fascinating. Her diary's give us a glimmer into history. She was a woman before her time.

Thanks for the clarity of style and explanations. I’m really thrilled and interested, better than a film. Plus, finally an excellent English. Thank you

She wrote that she had a very unhappy childhood. Why do they keep trying to deny this? They even put contradictory words in her mouth. She hated her Mother, isn't that proof enough? They bend these stories as they go along and it becomes "History".

Of course in one bed 🛏️😂 What a cute queen

🙂💜thanks for uploading.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thankyou 💖

I am so interested to read and know the history of Royals. Very interesting and simply beautiful. 🌷🌷🌷🌷

Love her and this documentary..... Thanks!!!

So amazing story video thank you so much for the video sir

I love the people whom spoke in this documentary.. They are so expressive.

The gentleman when he imitated the voice of Victoria’s mother ! I think she said it in German! Google translated 😂🤣😂🤣

The hosts clearly have no idea how cruel some women can be to their daughters. Once Victoria realized what had happened to her was NOT OKAY, she bailed. Her mother reaped what she sowed.

I'm sure Victoria was no different from most teenage girls who kept/keep diaries. I had one and there are tons of pages of how "abused" I felt, although reality was quite the opposite. I lived in a nice house with both parents and I had TONS of advantages. I was just selfish at the time. Victoria probably took her anger out on her mother because it was easy to do so.

Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth has had a hand in making a portion of my work a little bit easier. ✨🌹✨ When unity and Love prevails, all of humanity prevails! ✨🌹✨

While Queen Elizabeth I was great, she said, "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." However, Queen Elizabeth II fought like a soldier during WW II, she is one of the bravest Queens to ever rule Great Britain. I think Queen Elizabeth II should be accorded the respect she deserves by President Joe Biden and President Macron of France -- Victor Isaac Alexander

loved to hear these true stories ,great people

Incredible documentary. RIP to Deirdre Murphy

Princess Beatrice is the spitting image of the young Queen Victoria!

Excellent!

I love when the host reads with a German accent 😂💟💟

Queen Victoria was 3/4 German, married her German cousin, spoke flawless German, loved Germany and spending time there and in fits of rage or bad temper she would shout "You English" Victoria considered herself German and Germans today call her German.

Having "things" doesn't equate happiness. The English should have an understanding of this by now.

My mother adored me and at the same time was abusive. I’m not listening to anymore of what this guy has to say.

I usually love the videos on real royalty. This one rubbed me the wrong way. Unless you have been raised by a narcissistic power hungry mom who ignores the psychological and emotional abuse both as Victoria’s mom and her boy toy Conroy. It took me 40 years to figure out how messed up my home of origin was. Did we go camping, have a pool, dogs, . . . Yes, would I have said I had a great childhood, yes, but I was also ABUSED. Child abuse is not funny, it wasn’t her being mean to her mom, it was a justified reaction to the batsh@$t crazy you grew up in. Also as a mom who deals with depression from my childhood and definitely hormones after didn’t help, your brushing it off as ‘King George III’s’ madness is insulting and will keep people from getting help when they go through something similar.

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I so enjoy watching you, when I can send a tip I will. Keep up the good work

God Bless our Beautiful Queen ! It will be a sad day when God takes her home ,I was just telling my daughter . ❤️🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦

To see Anna Chancellor pop up narrating these diaries is delicious. XD Edit: Omg what was that fake German accent?! I'm dying!

Just because you have good parts of childhood does not mean you had a good childhood at all. Sometimes a storm has calmness but its still a storm.

More of a character assassination of Albert than a look at Victoria 🤔

The lady such great book reader!

Generally, I liked these documentaries of the British monarchy that came post-Game of Thrones, but the lessening of "recreation" scenes has been paired with making the actual historians do utterly ridiculous things that just don't work. Having Wilson in German falsetto is better than dressing up Lucy Worsley as a Tudor page and ultimately as Elizabeth I as they reconfigure how these royal stories are to be told, but really the only thing that saves this documentary is having the fantastic actress Anna Chancellor reading the part of Victoria from a chair while the historian larks about as all the other players! I'm a historian and storyteller who started out my career as a historical interpreter at a living history museum, where I appeared in period dress to help recreate the setting and bring alive the era. I also know that most historians--and certainly the best--have a bit of the dramatic storyteller within us, which is why we can see beyond the dry and dusty as the pages on which history is written to the real lives that made it. Yet there are lines, and I would have preferred them sticking to recreations with actors and having the historians not putting on shows like trained seals if this is to be the alternative!