What Secrets Lie Within Queen Victoria's Diaries? | A Queen's Letters Revealed

Biographer A.N. Wilson uncovers the intriguing personal life of Queen Victoria through her journals and letters in this psychological portrait of Britain's longest reigning monarch. With Queen Victoria's writings read by Anna Chancellor.

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[ew]

As a child of abuse just because you have a happy memory with your family DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAD A GOOD CHILDHOOD.

I like using the analogy my friend told me: if someone is horrible to you all the time and nice to you rarely, it does not make them a nice person. The same can be said about childhoods.
Never let someone tell you your childhood wasn't that bad because you had some fond memories in it. Nobody but you experienced it and dont let someone tell you different! ):<

[kristynamatulkova]

Picking Anna Chancellor as a reader was the best thing ever. I love this woman. <3

[c.s.]

I'm not a Brit but I've always loved reading journals and letters from the past. We get so much more detailed information about how things looked and felt like in the past no matter if they were royalty or a common person.

[rebeccagilstrap]

The lady reading for Victoria gives such life to her words. You get the feeling you are hearing Victoria speaking for herself. Brilliant.

[guywithacamera]

34:59 "I could do my German accent for that bit, it's really good"
"No Andrew, I don't thi"
"O H V I C T O R I A"

[MichielBLKorte]

Victoria DID love her children an awful lot. She had a difficult time to coope with post-natal depression and despised pregnancy, true, and it's also true she didn't like babies. But it's not true that she was jealous of her children in the way that she hated them. Victoria wasn't a true mother-bird baby-cuddler but she always wanted what was best for her children. If you read her diaries, you'll see how she prays for them and notices their individual personalities.

[BriarDanny]

Can they control the ads better? I don't have a problem with ads but do they have to be inserted in the middle of a sentence usually cutting off a word. There's plenty of pause points in the video to insert an ad without being so abrupt.

[qqhosyh]

Wonderful documentary, I learned so much! Thank you for the upload.

[andrewhunter]

Not really keen to the fact that he assumes what Queen Victoria’s childhood was like. She herself said that her childhood was unhappy; who is he to say otherwise?

[Septembersrain]

This person has a great sense of underlying sarcasm. Brilliant!

[sanchariguha]

well am Indian, always have been intrigued by history of British royal family, so much different story, and i think most popular and most researched royal family in the world .

[jayneanthony]

it is really amazing how you can learn about her . i lover these shows like this

[dawnbowra]

..."woman, what are ya doin...." finger waggle. I love this presenter. He is so dry and expressionless...I didn't expect that at all.

[jerrij]

12:34 this is so ignorant! You can have a few good times in a bad childhood! This is in her own words. What are they trying to say she's lying? This is why I hate historian sometimes.

[louisedumais]

oh my god she wrote thousand of words, what else did she have to do? Money and toys, a dog does not make up for lack of parental love or human love

[HereBeing]

to say that someone had a happy childhood because there were some happy experiences in it is ridiculous .... even the most abused children do experience and savor every happy or good experience and can seem very normal on the outside ... the person who said this obviously had a very cushy life especially childhood and is speaking without knowledge or experience

[jmedlin]

34:59

might be the greatest thing I've ever seen

[faithconstentine]

There should be NO ads with documentary’s there I said it .. love theses docos

[foxybish]

I can’t speak for other only children but as for myself I would go mad if I didn’t have time completely alone, and had to have someone with me at all times as anyone would.

[yeebby]

Whoever makes these documentaries is a saint ❤🎉