The Secrets Of Queen Victoria's Life In Her Own Words | A Monarch Unveiled | Timeline

[@bg9217]

Best doc I've ever seen about Victoria. It's sickening to think about all those letters & diaries gone! Like Van Gogh's mother throwing out all of his paintings from her garage when he died.

[@PatrickMHoey]

It’s shocking how those closest to a person can have such little regard for their significance.

[@pschilling5424]

@@PatrickMHoey Yes. Very true and sad. What a waste? Still happens today as I witness children not having an idea how precious and talented their parents, grandparents are.

[@kclombard7956]

They weren't all burned! There are still some that are public! Take heart. I have seen them in other documentaries!

[@QuesaDia05]

​@@PatrickMHoey It's a biblical truth! Mark 6:4 But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

[@kathrynkildow3743]

⁠ And some people think the Bible is not relevant today! There is nothing new under the sun. Jesus sure does know us.

[@celtgunn9775]

Thank you for taking the time to bring the Truths of Queen Victoria to the World. It truly is sad that her family felt it needful to destroy her writings, that statues of John Brown were destroyed... It's clearly obvious that Queen Victoria really loved him. Very much so. Especially when you consider that she was buried with a photo of him in her arms & his mother's ring. That speaks volumes. Much Louder than anything her children could have ever destroyed.

[@maryc7217]

She actually asked Alice or Louise to redact her journals.

[@mattc2094]

That certainly was an eye opener, having john browns photo in her coffin... I agree she must have loved him, although it was a surprise to find a more intimate connection with john brown instead of prince Albert at her death.

[@forreal245]

@@mattc2094 VERY surprised about the photo & ring!

[@maesapolu1832]

John Brown is her truest husband. Exciled, oppressed and suppressed

[@maesapolu1832]

Look again not to quick

[@stlounsbury]

It’s a shame her children destroyed many of her journals and tried to erase the men she cared about. I’m glad we have a window into her life and strengths.

[@terrybardy2848]

Her children were jealous. After being widowed, the children couldn't see another man taking their father's place and they were very self-centered.

[@sandramello3571]

@@terrybardy2848 they were self centered??? the thing is that Victoria was a bad mother

[@Annika4000]

I think it was more of a public relations thing. They (or, more specifically, Beatrice) wanted to avoid scandal for the family, so the parts considered shocking by conservatives were censored. I don't think Victoria's children disliked Brown out of jealousy. More likely, they were embarrassed by their mother getting so close to someone whom they considered their social inferior. They thought she'd make a fool of herself.

[@wiezyczkowata]

@Jean Rhodes I read she did not like being pregnant and was a distant mother who left her kids to be rised by her governess

[@paintedsmut5472]

@@wiezyczkowata that wasn't uncommon and it's also been mentioned she suffered from postnatal depression which could have been a factor in the treatment and resentment of her children

[@dancingfirefly7761]

This is an exceptional documentary that made Queen Victoria come to life for me in a way no other ever has. Well done, and thank you!

[@rainbowcoloursfly]

Amazing Queen Victoria 👸 God bless you today and always 🙏

[@AkakaDomenjer]

😂😂

[@gazels11]

I loved this documentary series about Queen Victoria. I have read and watched so much about her. This was definitely very eye opening and I now like her much more than I thought! Thank you!

[@nancydavies6446]

I just enjoy all these documentaries about Victoria she was such a contrasting personality, drama queen, strong, opinionated and vulnerable... I just love her

[@Seulgi_bff]

I like her some points about her children lol. Especially with her 1 son, Edward7. He was a mess lol

[@PassionFashionArt]

Queen Victoria comes into her own in her 40s. She is a woman of many contradictions but this is perhaps the same with all people to some degree.For years she resents her mother's controlling parenting but she herself becomes a controlling mother. She adores her husband but deep down recognizes she has traded one form of control for another. Even more significant is that she allowed these things to become crutches in her life. With the death of her mother and husband that she is forced to stand on her own. It's never too late to re-define yourself, to break free form the comfortable prisons built around you and you don't have to have it together in your youth.

[@catherinepositano8544]

Andria Mac... Ooooh... How profetic! 🙄

[@dianeshelton9592]

Well no but she never really learnt that other people , ie her own children have ideas as valuable as her own. She remained a controlling mother all her life, and ironically her children choice to censor and controlled her when she died.

[@gtaylor6937]

Andria Mac - Very well said. For all her faults, to have gone through that much personal growth & individuation in a lifetime, is remarkable.

[@Kristedlove333]

well said Bravo! I feel like I'm Victoria at the moment i worry at times for my future

[@flowermagnolia4551]

Which prison??? This guy is telling false lies. If Victoria had an issue with Albert then why did she sleep with him. I don’t think he would do that . The prison was herself just a replica of the lady she didn’t want to be. Might I add she called her daughter a cow for breast feeding

[@amyvalenzuela4386]

This was such an enjoyable and fascinating documentary about Queen Victoria. It just goes to show how incredibly complex her character and personality was.

[@thunderbird1921]

One of the most fascinating parts of her diary has to do with her diplomacy with France, particularly Napoleon III (who got the Bonapartes back in power after the revolutions of 1848). She wrote that her grandfather George III had been "the king who hated and opposed him (the original Napoleon) more than anyone else", and said that it was a strange yet remarkable experience to now be doing foreign policy with his nephew. She and Albert ended up being the first British royal couple to ever visit Versailles, and Napoleon III's 1855 state dinner for them was so large it had to be moved to the auditorium of an OPERA HOUSE on the site. In a massive departure from previous tensions between the two ruling families, Victoria wrote after the visit that she found the French Emperor to be a man with astonishing ideas and a remarkable deep thinker (though a little flamboyant). Some have claimed their conversations may have shaped some of her views on the rights of man, etc. History sure does take some wild, unexpected twists!

[@made-line7627]

@@thunderbird1921 Thanks for the info. Very interesting!

[@henningandersen9027]

I would like to have heard it all, but the nerving, disturbing MUZAK prevented it - like with 99,99 pct of docu-videos. Am I the only one ?

[@pschilling5424]

@@henningandersen9027 Correct, can the power's that be discourage the background music in so many publications?

[@henningandersen9027]

@@pschilling5424 ? Thanks, but I don't understand your question.

[@KellyfromMemphisDD214]

So John Brown was the most loyal and effective servant for Queen Victoria in her time of need...lovely man!

[@maesapolu1832]

Her truest and beloved HUSBAND KING ALEXANDER JOHN BROWN TUI MANU'A FONOTI TAFA'IFA LE TUPU O SAMOA AND THE POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

[@maesapolu1832]

The REAL TRUTH is NOT in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLY.... CATCH THE ENGLISH LIES!!! LIKE THE EPIGRAPHS " No one lies like the English " " The French will let you die "

[@maesapolu1832]

QUEEN Victoria was MARRIED to THE INDIGENOUS LION KING ALEXANDER JOHN BROWN TUI MANU'A FONOTI TAFA'IFA TAGALOALAGI OWNER OF SAMOA AND THE POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC..... STOP YOUR PUBLIC LIES. THE MENTIONED OF SAMOA PRICKED THE QUEEN'S CONSCIOUS, WHY???

[@maesapolu1832]

Distorted facts and public lies you continue to fool the world.

[@knockedoutloaded]

He really wasn't. He was frequently and needlessly cruel to her youngest son who was debilitated with a blood disease

[@angelsinger4574]

At 19:30, the narrator says that “no monarch had published a book before Victoria.” That is not exactly true. Henry VIII published what was then called a pamphlet (a word that has a different meaning to us today) in 1521. James I published four books between the years of 1579 and 1604. And if you want to include the pre-Norman monarchs, the real prize belongs to Alfred the Great, who was fond of giving away copies of his translation of Gregory the Great’s “Pastoral Care” in the 9th century! In the prologue, King Alfred bemoaned the lack of education amongst Anglo-Saxons, most of whom could not “understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English.” Alfred would translate at least three more books, including St. Augustine’s “Soliloquies.” It would be more appropriate to say that Queen Victoria published the first memoirs of a sitting monarch of Great Britain. Later, her descendant would become the first ex-monarch to publish a memoir, when the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) released his autobiography, “A King’s Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor.” The woman he gave up his crown to marry also published hers, entitled “The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor.”

[@michaeljvm]

Maybe a meant a female emperess

[@frightbat208]

Thank you for this. I thought the same thing, that there MUST have been books published by monarchs before her.

[@virginiacook895]

yea I thought henry VIII wrote both a pamphlet and a book "A Glass of the Truth" and James I was famous for his witch hunting book and bible translations

[@margaretfollwell322]

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[@specialk4455]

It’s great to have historians amongst us. Thank you for your contributions💜

[@lilitharam44]

I am very happy that you put the second episode up so quickly! This is an excellent series! Thank you!

[@TheBorderRyker]

Lilith Aram I totally agree. 👌🏻

[@maesapolu1832]

Conspiracy!

[@bevalee1533]

What an amazing story. What an amazing woman! Very interesting. It would seem that the stuffy old men of the court, really didn't understand their Queen all too well. Nor did they seem to understand women any better. Why could't she have a strong male friend? And it still be an perfectly innocent relationship? Apparently John Brown was a soul mate to her. But soul mate after the fashion of 'trusted friend' not physical lover. She clearly loved her dearly departed husband as her husband and lover. As a Monarch and a wife she didn't want to take another. That doesn't mean that she didn't need a friend. Someone to laugh with. Some one to lean on now and then. But someone that had to respect her power as Queen. Yet, help her keep her sensibilities as a woman. Fascinating glimpse into a most remarkable Queen and woman.

[@maesapolu1832]

What amazing lies!!!!They should all be send to North Korea and China for fabricating lies in the diaries and called them the Queen's writings.

[@maesapolu1832]

The phrase "dearly departed husband" points to John Brown. The queen says to John Brown "without you I cannot live my life" " they wanted me to send him (Brown) away" later John Brown got tired of upholding the "arrangement" and he sailed away without telling the queen. "Why is it that I am the last one to find out" (Mrs Brown movie)

[@davesanders5426]

@@maesapolu1832 There are punch issues, an independent magazine of that time, that detail Victoria and Albert’s journey exactly as we all know it. Are you going to say those Punch issues were lying or edited by people later too? The issues started mentioning Albert right from the time of his marriage to Victoria. They also detail starting from 1841, Albert’s involvement in government.

[@bevalee1533]

@@flowermagnolia4551 - *meet ?

[@flowermagnolia4551]

@@bevalee1533 I corrected myself

[@JiminPalmSprings]

This was extremely well done… All the time and attention and travel required to capture queen Victoria’s life… Deeply appreciated…

[@toph4706]

I’m really glad you had sole operation as director in pulling these great documentaries together. I appreciate your efforts.

[@juanecheyt]

What a remarkable and Unbelievable character Queen Victoria was!....... Who would have thought!!........... Her open mind, all that freshness, all that happiness all that lack of prejudice!..... so different to the image common people are sold about her...... she was WAAY ahead of her time!.

[@GMAMEC]

@juan carlos echeverry Yes she was a remarkable women who changed history. However, some of her decisions created would be considered cruel, unethical and/or immoral in the 21st century.

[@juanecheyt]

@@GMAMEC With all due respect..... if i decide to drink a coffee right now, half of the world`s population will get offended.... This 21st century people seems to be very sensitive..... But it is true.... In order to hold an empire together you will have to make some very unpopular decisions at times..... i can only say.... that was the 19th century, this is now and you cant compare or judge by today`s standards..... You should compare her to other monarchs and rulers of her time to see how cruel she really was....

[@GMAMEC]

@juan carlos echeverry You’re absolutely right, some of her decisions were representative of the 19th century. And yes, drinking a cup of coffee or taking a shower would be offensive to some people. Unfortunately, these “offenses” have a way of overshadowing realistic solutions or decisions.

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

The addition she had built in Albert's memorial on the isle of Wight is so over the top in beautiful work, I could just spend hours looking at it

[@hammycats6919]

I say if Victoria found love and companionship in Brown, then good for her, she needed some happiness in her life after Albert's death. 👍❤

[@maesapolu1832]

The queen was married to John Brown. Then she was married politically for others best interest. All her pregnancies are from John Brown not Prince Albert, recall the " love child " she is actually the first born. Recalle

[@patricthime8000]

@@maesapolu1832 Are you insane? Is there a clinical reason for your ignorance?? At the time of Victoria's marriage,John Brown was in a scottish regement.I swear I dont k ow where people get this stuff from.READ A BOOK.

[@maesapolu1832]

@@patricthime8000 For your information Queen Victoria and King Alexander John Brown are my great great grandparents. True blue blood in the South Pacific. You have hear say I have family facts aloha

[@patricthime8000]

@@maesapolu1832 Then someone in your family is telling fairytails.Are you the same age as Prince Philip? Elizabeth2? From which child are you descended from??

[@patricthime8000]

And also,historical DNA based genealogy is SCIENCE.not folklore.

[@melissa-wilson]

Majesty aside, Queen Victoria is a testament to true love. It's an endearing story that will endure throughout the ages.

[@forreal245]

EXCELLENT DOC! I learned more in this ONE, concise doc on QV than all of the previous ones put together.

[@Go-go-super-guru]

I found this documentary so endearing. Regardless of all the irresponsibility and upheaval which was caused. It just shows that, Victoria herself, wanted nothing more than to live as we do. The common folk.

[@bobbybr93]

"Everybody likes flattery; and, when you come to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel" Benjamin Disraeli

[@Master_Blackthorne]

Well, that's Disraeli for you.

[@joellaz9836]

bobbybr93 It’s impossible to say how Disraeli genuinely felt about the queen. He was a monarchist that’s for sure. He also once wrote that the Queen was only person left to him in the world that he loved. Not only that, but he always had a thing for old women so he probably had no trouble flirting with her. On the other hand, Gladstone preferred young beautiful women and never flirted with Queen Victoria. It’s probably why Queen Victoria hated Gladstone so much. He never treated her like a women, which was the way Disraeli and Mr. Brown treated her.

[@annika_panicka]

I've never heard him referred to as Dizzy before. Lol.

[@longwhitemane]

I do not know if "Dizzy" was a good PM or not, but that quote is certainly one to live by.

[@alazad816]

@@Master_Blackthorne diesels the Mauritius Ofcom msm is that it leader's partiers the other day but it's a good thing for the other day msmonpm

[@purplenymphe2572]

"We tend to think that Diana Princess of Wales invented the concept of "feel my pain", but Queen Victoria got there before her". 🤣🤣🤣 the way he says this with a straight face just made me laugh out loud.

[@gazels11]

Agreed.

[@MissJosephine93]

Very shady jajajaja

[@shaitarn1869]

I wonder if the current queen keeps diaries. I'd love to see what she really thinks about the various governments she's had!

[@rickyskelland2751]

shaitarn she’s said before that she does keep a diary. Nothing as detailed of course but she likes to her her thoughts and opinions down. It would be interesting to see.

[@tradingpost2472]

@@rickyskelland2751 Maybe it would be more detailed than you think but far less so than Queen Victoria obviosly, hence they burned the juisy gossip we all want to hear about! 🤐

[@sheenaIlona2306]

I just thought exactly the same thing!!

[@Ninineonangel77]

Elizabeth II is also a direct descendant of Queen Victoria

[@meeeka]

I believe they will be embargoed for 100 years.

[@julieegan1337]

Thoroughly enjoyed the presenter A N Wilson, great video 😃 thanku ❤

[@wrongsalvation8904]

I am very glad for this documentary because it opened my eyes to who Queen Victoria actually was. Before that I just thought she hated children thought they were frog babies and was wrapped up in her own affairs. I relate to her now. Boy do I understand completely.

[@JaneDoe-uy8yk]

How so?

[@loriboufford6342]

58:47 I once read a book long ago about India and indeed, one of the characters, in the book, displayed and articulated this behavior. If an item came across your path, even if it was nailed down or guarded if you could get it into your hands, it would be considered yours. You may think that she was just making this up to protect him, however I believe she was speaking the truth as she had been taught.

[@jameschapman5989]

This is the first time I hear that Albert was so horrible to her...

[@mycatisabastard2361]

It is unfortunate. He was unhappy about not having the title of King, and he pressured her into making quite a few of the decisions that were made.

[@MartaEzis]

I got the impression that they were happy in private life and he actually loved her as a person. That´s why she was so grief-stricken when he died. "Only" when it came to politics, Albert was tough on her. But Victoria, as someone who had had very strict upbringing, probably didn´t mind much and was mostly happy she had a good husband and companion in private life. Most queens and kings´ wives in history didn´t even have that.

[@ItsEricaBeyetch]

I don’t think he was the worst just not the perfect father and husband Victoria pictured when he died.

[@FreeSpirit47]

Prince Albert was not horrible to her. He was as many men were during the time he lived. Men were in absolute power. Women & children were considered property. Prince Albert, however, married the Queen of the UK. A woman whom he could not control or force to bend to his will as many other men could do as long as their wife was not a ruling monarch.

[@DeniseEggertwaterlily]

I read that Albert kept her under control by constantly keeping her pregnant, which takes a toll on a woman. She would have been incapacitated for long periods of time with every pregnancy and recovery from childbirth. This afforded him the chance to take over some of the power of the monarchy, which he wanted. When you realize the number of children that she had, it seems that she must have been constantly pregnant throughout their entire marriage, without a break. Prince Albert was a male chauvinist which was common among most men of that time. It was part of the culture. Their attitude towards women and their treatment of women wasn't unusual for that time period, but it would never have been accepted from mid 20th century onward. If women still hadn't been given the right to vote , the right to run for any office, the right to attend university for education, the right to serve in most professions reserved for men, or the right to seek adventure abroad, one can deduce how most men deferred to women. Prince Albert was considered to be an acceptable husband by 19th century standards. He is viewed in a completely different light by modern standards of acceptable behavior.

[@NinasVideoss]

I hate that they keep mentioning Albert's control on Victoria. She was a more emotional person and Albert a more rational one so I am sure they balanced each other, I am nevertheless sure that he wanted to stand his ground and well he wanted to be as great as she was, after all she was a queen. From all that I have seen and read, all the gifts they exchanged, they were very much in love. Obviously Albert died when she was only 42 years old, Brown definitely comforted her and I think that is very humain. We must remember that these people were human.

[@jamescarlton6016]

Queen Victoria's letters. Her daughter "the destroyer" burnt the majority of Victoria's writings so we are only left will a small variety today. Even so, they are still very revealing and fascinating! To say the least.

[@frankwerner6355]

Mr. Wilson is so perfect. From his way of speaking to his three-piece suit, to his clothes when in France, he is the very embodiment of an English "milord".

[@dln7527]

I love Queen Victoria, and I absolutely love Prince Albert. Both were the total embodiment of class. Both will be missed for generations to come. Long live Queen Victoria and Prince Albert!

[@donnakerr4997]

She was a lucky woman to have been given the opportunity of a great friendship in her latter years.There must have been many jealous people who were willing to vilify her…shame on them for that ,she didn’t deserve that.

[@rainydaywoman5758]

I enjoy knowing she is related to me and my family. My grandmother's great great grandmother shared a common grandmother which was Queen Victoria. Long live the Queen even in her death..

[@GregCurtin45]

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I learned so much. Thanks for sharing this video on KZbin.

[@cassandraralph5906]

Thank you for sharing this most interesting and enlightening video! Especially as I had quite a few misconceptions regarding Queen Victoria.

[@Whocares.........]

Well done! Thanks for that! A fine piece.

[@kevangunn7163]

Such a shame that truth can be hidden by corruption, Victoria has just become my favorite monarch

[@RealearthRocks]

The ironic justice; It is they, who tried to edit her words, that are forgotten.

[@maesapolu1832]

Why did Princess Beatrice burnt the queen's writings To hide her real father John Brown. We have John Brown and Queen Victoria's Royal Crests...married and all.

[@maesapolu1832]

Princess Beatrice is alleged to cremate the queen's writings edited and weeded what is out there. We are Brown-Windsors in the Pacific.

[@maesapolu1832]

They are professional liers. It's a CRIME narrating LIES on the screen. Misleading the viewers. Like North Korean and CCP leaders cover up until NKorean defectors come to the U.S America and tell the real accounts. Thank you America for the opportunity. Those people narrate as if the TRUTH about JOHN BROWN and QUEEN VICTORIA WOULD NOT BE REVEALED. Aloha

[@benbouchard4487]

@@maesapolu1832 you do realise the USA creates propaganda just like the U.K.

[@maesapolu1832]

@@benbouchard4487 I quote Proverbs 28:17 "The first to state his case seems right Until the other party comes and cross examines him". They seem right with their stories but we have the ROYAL CRESTS, they have nothing. Only gullible and naive people believe every word they say.

[@TheAnish01]

The narrator is excellent master of his work.

[@deborahheleggreza-greza36]

Really enjoyed the reader of the diary. Enjoyed the information of this queen and her reign

[@deletalunstrum86]

A very interesting, and enlightening documentary. Thank you.

[@maesapolu1832]

John Brown unreplaceable. "The Queen had nothing to hide. " I have lost my dearest best friend...". "who noone in this world can ever replace. "

[@catherinepositano8544]

Thank you for putting the human touch to history. 👍👍👍

[@AngryIrishMan]

John Brown, the most powerful pool boy in history

[@MariVictorius]

👍🤣

[@Vejur9000]

LOL. I have to say that was funny.

[@lindamcknight4790]

😆

[@ivaniatausche9321]

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[@eveaka_vevvie8385]

😂😂😂👍👍👍

[@youtubehatesus2651]

I have wtached twice. Very well done. I love the gentleman presenter. Charming man.

[@imcnagpc2]

That narrator has some snappy outfits.

[@stefaniabisazza6330]

Hahah

[@trapjaw7253]

They all do.

[@nikkisiddall5955]

Real English gent….. very dapper!

[@chinghy12]

I had found this side of the real Queen Victoria inspiring and interesting

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Thank you so very much for an informative and well presented programme. You did so much research which is to your credit and which has contributed greatly to this delightful documentary. April 2022.

[@Aces77777]

She was so fortunate to be queen of the most powerful nation in the world at a time when much of the world were living in poverty

[@sreyamajumdar2295]

Ya that's because that "powerful nation" became powerful by looting other countries for instance ransacking India "one of the most richest nations of the world with the annual revenue of 17.5 million, which went downhill with colonization and as a result made India poor.

[@pschilling5424]

I loved it when as a young Queen she sent the acused criminals to Asutralia for a new life instead of those awful public hangings.

[@Gertyutz]

Judi Dench starred in a film of this story, "Mrs. Brown."

[@frightbat208]

G Y yes an Brown was played by Billy Connelly! So good!

[@annika_panicka]

@@frightbat208 Yes - they're both brilliant in this wonderful film. She was nominated for the Oscar in 1998 for her performance

[@maesapolu1832]

Why didn't Hollywood call the movie Mrs. Coburg? " Mrs. Brown" is an evidence that she is the real Mrs Brown. Married when they were young. After or before king William IV died a conspiracy hatched and "John Brown scampered from Windsor forever"

[@maesapolu1832]

Billy Cornelly was asked " did they messed up the sheets and he said "of course they did!!!"

[@maesapolu1832]

Hollywood ism Brown as servant? here husband is a servant by Hollywood. However, Queen Victoria's real husband the handsome John Brown is King Alexander John Brown Tui Manu'a Fonoti Tafa'ifa le Tupu o Samoa and the SOUTH PACIFIC THE POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE

[@markbyrum4743]

You had me at "she was frequently amused!" Good vid.

[@היילימור-ר1ז]

Not sure what to think of q victoria, she was sometimes rude and rather nasty, and sometimes very nice and extremely and surprisingly lovely, interesting and complicated woman

[@AquaFonic]

Her mother hid her away she had no one at all no friends nothing. היילי מור

[@mycatisabastard2361]

So...basically, she was a human being

[@terrybardy2848]

She was also a May child as well as a Gemini. May children are very stubborn. I am one and I married one.

[@MartaEzis]

She was temperamental. What you have here is a generous, extroverted, sensitive, fun-loving person who received very strict upbringing and was forced into a formal, lonely role she wasn´t comfortable in. And because she wasn´t entirely emotionally stable, didn´t know how to deal with it and couldn´t escape from it, it warped her into those extremes of strictness vs. drama. I like to imagine she would have been happy in a free-spirited theatre in a small backwater town somewhere, where everything is just the same as it was thirty years ago, but she gets to see some drama and play comedic roles on the stage. She probably would have been a sort of cheerful, generous mother to the troupe, and a great comedian, and a writer. I also believe she was autistic. I know what I´m talking about because I am. She had material stability but not emotional or political one, not at all. She heard every day what is changing in the world. But we autistic people need a certain amount of system and security in our lives. She lashed out whenever the court tried to take something from her that was giving her a sense of stability. That´s also why she was so distraught whenever someone she loved died.

[@pschilling5424]

I'm reading some on the Regency Times in England, and women of her nature were called 'Original" and found it difficult to find a good marrige. Often these women were gifted and proved to be wonderful wives. Takes a trully strong husband in talents to appreciate them.

[@Bailey2006a]

wonderful commentary...I hope some of this information is included in the new Victoria series with Jenna Coleman

[@maryc7217]

In interviews, Jenna discusses that she uses the journals for every episode/season. The biggest reason why I adore the series! 😊

[@chronicstitcher7933]

I think it awful that those around her would have preferred that she be miserable and lonely rather than have a friend who didn't fit into what society deemed acceptable. Hats off to Mr. Brown.

[@sinnombre-xs9ub]

Excellent, thank you for posting

[@linzieross2702]

Wonderful documentary,it humanize her. I throughly enjoyed it. 💖

[@pipermoonshine3281]

both of my grandmothers were born when she was on the throne..that is mind blowing to me..just boggles the mind.

[@mayageorge1847]

Wonderful but WAY too many long long ads that cause you to stop and have to focus on skipping past them rather than on the documentary

[@brigitafeher9105]

Just swipe thru to the end and start from the beginning to avoid adds...

[@laalaag2auntyayag776]

Darn it, I was hoping that was going to work, but it didn’t on my phone. Thanks anyway though

[@belmum1689]

@@brigitafeher9105 thanks it worked for me

[@herreguda6199]

@@brigitafeher9105 Ingenious life hack!! Thank you 😍

[@pschilling5424]

Hopefully, it can be remastered cleaning up those ad's?

[@made-line7627]

That part after 17:30 regarding John Brown putting Victoria in her place (a well-deserved admonition!) is awesome. Just finished watching this. She lived quite a life, and it's definitely made me view her differently. Her kids were ratbags for so heavily censoring her life and the ones she held dear while living it. Sad that we'll never know the full story, though the story we got was great, regardless.

[@ajhxz3446]

"Ratbags"... haven't heard that for a while. I'm gonna use it to describe certain things more often. Thanks 😊

[@rileywilliams9799]

Her German roots were apparent when she lashed out and referred to those around her as 'You English'.

[@tamaragonzalez2227]

Interesting as I don't see it that way. I see it as her slamming the so called royals and their "we are more important than the peasants" we dictate over and rule their lives and own their lives and will destroy their lives as if they saw fit. A they still do see people as lower than themselves and to be stepped on like gutter snipes.

[@rileywilliams9799]

@DK KK I read in a biography that during one of her meetings with officials, they didn't entirely share her views and she became so irritated she lashed out and called them 'You English', basically describing them as stubborn and ignorant in her view.

[@terrybardy2848]

Her birth first name was Alexandrina. Her middle name was Victoria. So that was the name she had taken when she became a queen.

[@aroha4751]

Oops

[@pinkbunny6272]

I grew up with the vestiges of German culture... And it really stiffened me up a lot. To call English people stubborn is to play a joke on your own heart. Just wonder how it was received... Their origins, as in Windsor family, have a stiff, cold and stubborn feel to this day.

[@skyrocketcoast219]

A brilliantly done documentary !

[@surfergirl2943]

This was an EXCELLENT documentary. John Brown was an amazing and devoted friend and servant!

[@jamesmansbridge5330]

Queen Victoria,her reign of 63 years was longer than the reign of any prior British Monarch?This is astonishing!

[@trhendricks2216]

After reading about some of her interactions with the prime ministers of her reign, it makes you wonder if a "Contemporary" Queen Victoria would wear a hoodie that said "(censored) Gladstone"

[@annbush1826]

Psychiatry was in its infancy during Queen Victoria’s reign. As a child and then reveling as Queen in her power to keep her mother at a distance, her diaries were Emotional, almost every word underlined, the diaries covered her relations with the men who led her government.

[@arghoghosh6507]

We Indians Never Saw Victoria As Goddess...That's too much

[@shirleymoore4837]

I am so impressed by Queen Victoria that I named my daughter in her honor. The Queen was a remarkable human being, and quite obviously beloved by her people.

[@tradingpost2472]

Maybe the Queen & Scottish J were more like Elizabeth 1st & her 'Sweet Robin.

[@thenoworriesnomad]

Excellent documentary and God Bless Her....

[@aroha4751]

Must say, my perception of Quen Victoria has gone up notches.

[@pandora8478]

The Irish and people of the colonies would beg to differ.

[@nanovahidy5172]

What dependence on one single soul and how loyal, which gave her enough knowledge and confidence to carry on alone when he was gone.

[@deecantola1923]

This narrator doesn’t walk, he glides. Fascinating . His posture is impeccable.

[@magnacz]

She fought bitterly with Albert who was better educated than her and wanted to dominate her. He being a man of his time and with the German upbringing of no humor or charm fell out of love with her. Having that many children must have destroyed her not just physically. Brown died unexpectedly and she found another servant the young Indian that replaced him as a personal assistant. Too bad her letters and diaries were censorsed by her daughter, relatives often forget the historical value and only think of the personal.

[@1171]

Very interesting would love to read her journal and the story of her story of John Brown and the story about the two. I believe her daughter should have let that be published.

[@cdfdesantis699]

Seen many documentaries about Queen Victoria, presenting her as cold & cruel, weak & dependent on others, a devoted wife & mother, an anachronism in the midst of an industrial & cultural revolution, or yet a leading political force for that very revolution. The simple fact is, I believe, that she was a complex human being, who took on the role she was expected to play, & served her empire & her subjects to the best of her ability, as she thought fit. She must have been right, because she is remembered as one of the world's greatest monarchs.

[@mattc2094]

Brilliant! What a surprise to find that john brown was the love of her life, not prince Albert

[@nickyappleby1060]

But what a shame she couldn't go public with it

[@sinnombre-xs9ub]

And not Abdul

[@TheMarshmelloKing]

This doc seems to be biased against albert in favor of other men, but the ONLY “love of her life” was prince Albert.

[@paulinbrooklyn]

TheMarshmelloKing - I disagree, but respect your opinion. But the mementos she was buried with (which are well documented in myriad other authoritative sources) suggest strongly to me that “only” is incorrect.

[@zzzbbbooo]

Prince Albert was the love of her life.

[@DeniseEggertwaterlily]

It is clear from all accounts, as well as Queen Victoria's letters, that Livingston was unbending in his behavior and treatment of Queen Victoria. He might have devoted his life to his country, but he was a male chauvinist. This was why he was Queen Victoria treated him the way that she did. Male chauvinists rarely have insight into their treatment of women. I imagine that many men in positions of power back then, were male chauvinists and they talked down to women, instead of treating them as equals. Disraeli , unfortunately, used charm and manipulation with Queen Victoria, in order to serve his agenda. I suppose that most men didn't know how to treat women as equals back then.

[@susanmorgan8833]

Very nice documentary, but there were so many commercials that it was difficult to watch.

[@munshising8573]

AN Wilson! Excellent!

[@fatimak1382]

Victorias real Father was said to be Sir John Conroy he lived in Kensington palace with Victoria's Mother, it was well known back then they were known as The Con Royals,

[@aaronjones7260]

That was a rumour. And absolutely rubbish. She was a spitting image of her father Edward Duke of Kent. And the duchess and sir John Conroy were known as the con royals by members of William IV court (who hated them), Victoria had nothing to do with that. William wanted to get Victoria away from them because he knew how they were treating her.

[@LaurenBradburyFarm]

Thanks!

[@elvenkindgaming3621]

I so enjoyed this biographical documentary. My favorite was John Brown pouring whiskey in her milk.

[@mandymilne5247]

Whisky

[@jayjayjones1067]

Wwss&**>[

[@ramonagriffith4806]

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[@berthajimeno9737]

Ppp

[@margiesoapyhairbillian4754]

Great documentary. I learned now information 😊😊

[@floraposteschild4184]

Victoria may have had a prolapsed uterus when her body was examined, but she met Brown in her forties, and she didn't die until she was 81. It doesn't mean she was incapable with Brown! There may be no records, but come to think of it, I don't recall anyone saying she had stopped having a physical relationship with Albert in her forties.

[@zzzbbbooo]

The uterine prolapse would have happened well before old age. Victoria would never have had sexual relations with Brown anyway - she just enjoyed a close relationship with him.

[@maggiebugden9463]

Interesting read. Thank you 😊

[@jackielolli3488]

I so enjoyed this.

[@carolking6355]

A really interesting and enjoyable story. I feel very sad for Queen Victoria. She had a wicked childhood and thank heaven for John Brown.

[@carolinecollett956]

He had no thought but for me, my welfare, my comfort, my safety, my happiness. Courageous, unselfish, totally disinterested, discreet to the highest degree, speaking the truth fearlessly and telling me what he thought and considered to be "just and right," without flattery and without saying what would be pleasing if he did not think it right. . . . The comfort of my daily life is gone-the void is terrible-the loss is irreparable! Relationship with Queen Victoria

[@ThatGirlJackie84]

when i was watching the series Victoria i thought Albert was controlling & manipulative but i also thought i was reading too much into it but i see i was right

[@MovingOndaisy]

Julia Baird's book is the best book I've read about Victoria, but new research is still revealing facts about her. Victoria was NOT a good Mother, because she had never been sufficiently 'mothered' herself and children were not familiar to her(she was an only child, no playmate's when she was growing up) she left the suffocating all consuming attentions of her own Mother, straight into the arms and dependence on Prince Albert. Victoria was born to be a Queen and it consumed her. She was always aware of her duties as Wife, Mother and Queen of a huge Empire. She was torn in only two though-Albert and Britain. Her true love of Germany was kept under wraps as it was certainly not a good thing for a English born Monarch. Hence the Royal Family name change, by George V in 1917(just as well it was done before Germany's heinous crimes of that started WW2. It's a great shame that so many of Queen Victoria's personnel and official papers were destroyed by her family-I think they would have shown THE REAL Queen 👑

[@jeanrichard9034]

Wow prince andrews daughter Beatrice is image of victoria

[@jeanrichard9034]

@James Hama hiya I’m fine ))

[@Lynda-oo7ey]

A.N.Wilson is definitely a great scholar.

[@lissettesbloom8223]

Marriage is a blessing and I do everything with my husband and we both ask each other what should I do? So what? How is that controlling? We are each other’s best friend. He dose not control me and I don’t control him. It’s called love. How you going to judge someone from years ago. Back then all women wore black back in those days when the husband dies.

[@thunderbird1921]

Yeah, I think they're really exaggerating the control and marriage tensions parts. From what I've read, Victoria and Albert did have some squabbles (but doesn't every couple have a few?), but she often appreciated him helping her with stuff like paperwork (partially due to how confusing some of it was).

[@i.kxnomii]

I’m happy that both me and Queen Victoria have the same birthday :)

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Victoria was a deep soul ...eyes do not lie 👀💂‍♂️

[@LotusLady9]

Love this documentary👑

[@rosarioperez7509]

Great video

[@Shelly-mz9yf]

Agreed I'd love to learn more about this woman

[@margaretgullett6341]

I would love to tour England and Germany someday to see where my roots, where my ancestors are from!! Queen Victoria is my 8th cousin, 4 times removed!!

[@jdh72]

I would hurry up. England and Germany won't be Engish or German for very long!

[@adamdaichendt3838]

Thats fascinating, Hopfully it comes together for you😊👍

[@elcubanito2442]

That was so good, so good. Thanks!

[@michaelrecycle9838]

Is the actress reading QV's diaries 'Duckface" from Four Weddings and a Funeral?!

[@WraithChick22]

Yes, thank you. I've been trying to remember who she was 🤗

[@shannongirl123]

@@WraithChick22 Anna Chancellor

[@WraithChick22]

@@shannongirl123 Thanks Susan 👌

[@dianeshelton9592]

Danielle Fleetwood poor Anna she has done so much more , but to be ever known as duck face

[@sinnombre-xs9ub]

😂good spot

[@zarzartinwin593]

She was mourning for the person she loved most in her life, her heart must hve been so broken 😢😢