Queen Victoria: The Misunderstood Monarch

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Shannon Quinn
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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Source/Further reading:

[unitedhistory]

🤔 so she was basically someone who wanted friends and live a normal life. Thank you for making this biopic, she was very misunderstood person regardless of her being queen.

[Zeruel]

Victoria was a remarkable woman, far more than the grieving widow most people know her as, thank you for covering the other sides to her personality

[SvrWxArchive]

Victoria did not inherit the throne after her grandfather (George III) died. The crown passed onto her two uncles George (George IV) and William (William IV) before her.

[philiprizek]

Dirty and flirtatious sayings is always the first thing you should learn in a foreign language

[srom]

Please do Mary queen of Scotts! A very tragic story.

[FrazzP]

If i remember correctly, the German emperor Wilhelm II (her grandson) loved her a lot and was at her deathbed.

[glippernittles]

Simon ! My newborn loves the sound of your voice. If she gets fussy, and there is no apparent reason for it, we put on your wonderful programs and she settles right down !
I love your shows, educational and entertaining....and that smooth voice of yours, lulls my baby to sleep !
Keep up the good work !

[michaeloguntuase]

Why didn't you mention that her many children practically made her a common royal ancestor and mother to many Kingdoms.

[markthomson]

I think you might find that William IV her uncle was her predecessor not her grandfather George III

[wfellow]

Can you re-make a video on Queen Victoria where you fix all of the errors in this video?

[stephenwoods]

Never led her country through war? Her reign was a constant series of small to medium wars.

[Kiwiriderandcarnut]

"[Victoria] had done something no other monarch had done before...Become an author" What?? King James 1st published a book on demonology

[meaninglez]

I had no idea she was so sensitive and intelligent. That poor woman. I'm glad things got better for her.

[barbaramelone]

Not only did Victoria not inherit the throne upon the death of her grandfather, there were several other heirs to the throne after her. She ascended the throne only because her father was the elder to other brothers and their legitimate offspring. Also, I'm not a Queen Victoria expert, but I've read biographies and also discussion about her from several respected biographers, and I've never once read that Prince Albert was a plant of "the Conroy plot." One of the big backers of Albert was Victoria's maternal uncle, who also was Albert's uncle, a man named Leopold. Uncle Leopold, who by then was King of Belgium, favored Albert as a means of creating advancement for another member of his own family. I've also never heard before that keeping Victoria constantly pregnant was some big secret plot. Queen Victoria found Prince Albert wildly attractive, and enjoyed being in bed with him. I would like to know the source for the allegations about Victoria's mother and Conroy finagling Prince Albert and constant pregnancies onto Victoria. Also, people do make mistakes, but I wish this video had undergone more editing. You're ostensibly teaching people history; it should be highly accurate.

[MichielBLKorte]

Queen Victoria didn't hate her children! She didn't like being pregnant and suffered post-partum depression after her first two births but she herself wrote: You are wrong in thinking I am not fond of children. She didn't really like babies in general but loved her children, even more so when they developed personalities and could have a proper discussion with her.

[einezcrespo]

It was her uncle King Leopold I of Belgium who was pushing for Albert and Victoria to get married.

[sheacat]

Thank you for this. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Queen Victoria and love that you didn't simply gloss over who she really was as a person to cover the well known aspects of her public face. I know you have millions of suggestions for videos, but if you ever get around to it, would LOVE to see one of these on Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Ching Shih, or Gráinne Mhaol!

[SaraMakesArt]

It was interesting to learn to about Queen Victoria's personality. I never would've guessed that she liked loud people with boisterous senses of humor. It makes her seem much cooler. Also, I can relate to her as a child. I also grew up with someone who used to make me feel like I couldn't do anything. No doubt if Victoria had been grown up today, her father would've been recognized as emotionally abusive.

[Aramis]

She needed her diaries edited because of the incident with The Doctor and the foundation of Torchwood. They WANT us to think it’s a fictional story, but we know better!

[chickendrawsdogs]

"Bedchamber Crisis" sounds like a series of misfortunes that involve non-functional joystick, torn raincoat, early firearms discharge and the scorn that followed.