Why Queen Victoria's Childhood Was So Troubled | Royal Upstairs Downstairs | Absolute History

[@cobykonneor]

I love how genuinely excited everybody is in this series. It makes everything so much more fun and entertaining.

[@NSUS1]

it seems so forced to me

[@sorenlorenson8327]

@@NSUS1 omg if you saw this guy in bargain hunt you know hes incredibly laid back and positively restrained in this tv show

[@skatiesadiemator5948]

I can't stop thinking of how cold dinner must have been

[@MsKittyGirl2010]

The title says "while her childhood was so troubled" but all I see is amazing experiences lol

[@maryhildreth754]

It's just a clickbait title.

[@NSUS1]

i thought you were pointing out a typo

[@resnonverba137]

@@NSUS1 She was certainly making one.

[@aguyhere7945]

They don't go into it very much, but Victoria's mother was not a great person. She honestly believed that showing affection to her daughter was a bad thing and that children should be raised in isolation. That part about how her mother forced her to sleep in the same bed as her was really only the beginning.

[@honningbie2724]

I thought it was a dig at the food they were eating lol

[@OstblockLatina]

*"The family (of Lord and Lady Lychfield) had worked hard in the previous 100 years at transforming what was once a plainer, medium size house."* Goodness gracious, it must've been very hard work indeed, to watch all those labourers sweat and break their backs in exchange for a bowl of potatoes and slice of adultered bread a day. Absolutely excruciating! I hope the Lordships took sufficient number of breaks to visit Bath and repair their overworked persons.

[@vienogola1421]

Teehee hee 🤭

[@helenamirian908]

Pffft! Planning gardens takes HOURS of poring over seed catalogs! And perhaps drawing plans with colored pastels!

[@rowan_vagrant]

Sure its nothing compared to the modern time hardship of eating animalsoursed food and wearing clothes mass produced in labor like conditions.

[@justyeeeeeetit]

This channel makes some of my favorite content on youtube! Wish America had stuff like this on youtube. It's so much easier to learn & remember history this way.

[@annahhinman605]

i think you mixed up the title to the contents of the video. The video makes no sense at all from the description. This visit from Princess Victoria was one of the happiest moments in her life.

[@OstblockLatina]

It's called clickbaiting. However, her control freak mother was making her life really hard and the conflict between two of them escalated with years.

[@AnnahHinman]

@@OstblockLatina i dont think it's clickbaiting. This channel is a highly regarded history channel. im thinking they mixed up the title to a video

[@unbareability7066]

@@AnnahHinman show me historical evidence of that screw up! I call Clickbait!!

[@blacksheep1899]

I just stumbled upon these documentaries. I absolutely love them and adore the narrators energy and enthusiasm. Can't wait to watch more.

[@erracht]

"I say, they did live well, you know". Yep...and then watch one of Tony Robinson's documentaries about how common folk in 19th-century Britain worked 12- or 14-hour days, 6 days a week, doing back-breaking labor and earning wages that can hardly even be called subsistence-level, especially if they were women.

[@helenamirian908]

"They really did have staff to take a long time arranging tiny bits into a buttered mold with greasy pastry and meat."

[@rosieazatyan5923]

haha i was thinking the same. Especially when i watched the 4/part series of the "living in the Victoria era with 6 famous Brits.

[@aimeeprincessofpower]

I'm in love with this series

[@janethayes5941]

Same here!👍😁

[@ophelian4646]

Me too! I live in Sweden so it's extra interesting to see how Britain's royal people lived. After all our royal houses are related..

[@mssitifa.r9672]

Love this series. Hello from Malaysian’s Borneo, Sabah!🌳💚

[@franceskronenwett3539]

A most fascinating documentary. What never ceases to amaze me is how all those people could have eaten all that food.

[@helenamirian908]

I hope the servants got the leftovers!

[@momof2momof2]

A piping bag, invented in 1820, would have been very helpful in filling the first dish.

[@resnonverba137]

The bag or the dish?

[@notit340]

Good idea, I want to try making it.

[@momof2momof2]

@@resnonverba137 The piping bag. I edited my sentence structure :)

[@resnonverba137]

@@momof2momof2 Ha! Well done :)

[@momof2momof2]

@@resnonverba137 :) Thank you ! 🥰💐🌵🌞🌷🌱🏜️💗

[@dracofunneh2498]

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[@mothiestman4995]

This is so aggressively English. My Irish blood is boiling yet my history nerd brain is forcing me to watch.

[@ms.antithesis]

*so aggressively posh and Southern* The 90% of the country that isn't between Salisbury and Reading hates it too.

[@brh.1892]

You're telling me 😂 I'm a South African watching a video about Victoria.

[@ms.antithesis]

@@brh.1892 Haha, as a scouser i can relate

[@mothiestman4995]

@@ms.antithesis I mean those parts wronged my grandparents too but I get what you mean. The Northern accent activates my fight or flight much less often.

[@mothiestman4995]

@@brh.1892 How did we get here, man?

[@foxver24]

I don’t know why I’m watching this but I am

[@csilabillabilla]

I was clickbaited, yet still not disappointed.

[@BunnyQueen97]

Lol I would be paranoid too if I had a daughter in that era! Especially if her reputation would be ruined by the bad behavior of someone else!

[@DT-vc7hd]

Tim comes across as a caricature of a posh Englishman

[@billyandrew]

Yeah, a real hammy actor.

[@foxycinnamon7307]

He certainly has the horrible teeth down.

[@OstblockLatina]

I would've probably said the same about a straight man, which he isn't.

[@carolynraley4047]

It's hard to tell if you and your repliers like him or not. I think he's lovely but maybe because I'm in love with this subject and show, the whole Upstairs Downstairs/Gotsford Park trip.

[@marthabook7506]

This was very interesting i just loved ..And the cooks voice was so unique the tone was remarkable love love love ...Thank you for this video..💕😊

[@Overlordvoldermort]

Am I missing something? I don’t see anything troubling here except perhaps for the servants on the estate lol

[@shayla592]

Victoria’s mother was very controlling and cold to her. She believed that children should be raised without true affection (hugging etc) and in isolation. The part where it says the mother forced Victoria to sleep in the same room as her is something that she would often do, and there were many other things that she did. Apparently it was a very cold and hard childhood for Victoria and it carried forward with her own behaviour towards her children.

[@ConfusedLux]

Those food drippings next to that old parchment makes me UNCOMFORTABLE!

[@Vic_the_owl92]

This is why British documentary commentors are the best

[@foxycinnamon7307]

Because they ham it up and sound phony as hell?

[@1964_AMU]

This Victoria Tour promises to be of great interest, just for the inside of the Country Estates visited and the delicate food !!

[@raidersofexploration6907]

The big lady gets so excitedly it makes me happy.

[@marileelockwood5408]

Absolutely wonderful! ☺️✨

[@JohncharleS20042]

so interesting. so fascinating and incredible. the good thing is that at the end they make peace

[@janethayes5941]

Oh let me hang out with these two!

[@Judah98]

I could listen to Ivan talk all day!

[@hannajennings2771]

That is where the saying you're plastered comes from!

[@uggggggghhhhh]

omg im obsessed with these videos

[@virginiawilkinson5038]

This is great reno technique...

[@TheKoolbraider]

I am hit with an incredible urge to eat after seeing the foods in this series!

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

[@Serenade2461]

Slate is a stone so I'm curious what they were trying to make it look like?

[@AubreyMobley]

It's a veneer rather than really being built of stone blocks is their point.

[@MariVictorius]

I just watched this and still I have no idea why Victoria had a difficult childhood. Seems like this video was mostly about food!

[@carolineolsenarnold7039]

Her mother was terrible. Victoria couldn't sleep alone in her room, mum slept there also. V was not even allowed to walk up or downstairs alone but had to have mum or other woman to escort and hold her arm. Poor V was never alone but watched over constantly. When she became queen, she banished her mothers close advisor from court, and was finally able to put her mother in her place when she tried to over rule V. I would have loved to have seen that conversation.

[@shayla592]

@@carolineolsenarnold7039 I believe there is another documentary on KZbin about that. Apparently Victoria carried some aspects forward, she was affectionate with her own kids, but apparently found it hard because she had no clue how to be affectionate to kids. She didn’t know how it was supposed to feel

[@nikkimerrims7765]

Great video, thank you. 🤗

[@talkalotakaka]

Hello 👋 From San Francisco ! 🌊🔥🔥🌊

[@ms.antithesis]

Hi san Francisco I'm dad

[@johnlord8337]

@@ms.antithesis Me thinks you talka too lotta SanFran ... from a SanFran resident who is a true Prince.

[@raphaelahons3479]

Than kyou so much for this episide !

[@kasvinimuniandy4178]

I wonder how 5 minute crafts would do to that vegetable dish.. heheheheh

[@helenamirian908]

Toothpaste, probably

[@ConfusedLux]

I absolutely love this series

[@momof2momof2]

The hosts are like cartoon characters

[@NSUS1]

it’s painful to watch and listen to them force enthusiasm while clearly they are acting

[@PLuMUK54]

When I was young, my elderly neighbour still used a "dolly tub" for her clothes washing. Although her children had bought her a washing machine, she preferred her tried and true method, even into her 80s.

[@debbie7490]

I love the lady chef but I always get distracted by her breathing heavily

[@ella_cinder4361]

Its her enthusiastic girth. Too much fat around the lungs.

[@OstblockLatina]

Well, she's got no servants to carry her weight for her...

[@jaywilliams306]

Hi all the way from Texas. ☺️

[@flumpyofdoom]

Hello! From Swadlincote in England. 👋😁

[@jaywilliams306]

@@flumpyofdoom Hi, victoria, I actually still have distant cousins that still living in england. I have the last name Ridley in my family.

[@flumpyofdoom]

@@jaywilliams306 Hiya Jay, that's awesome, whereabouts do they live? I'm living in the middle East of England in Derbyshire. 😊

[@jaywilliams306]

Victoria how close is Ipswich suffolk England to where you are? I actually had family that came to america from Debryshire to america. 😌 So what is life like in england?

[@flumpyofdoom]

@@jaywilliams306 Hello Jay, I hope you and yours are doing well today. Ipswich is about 125 miles (201 kilometers) from where I am. About a three hour journey by car in good traffic. I've been to Ipswich a couple of times during my childhood, but I can't remember it all that well. I originally lived in Kent near London for the first 18 years of my life, before moving up north to the east Midlands. (Well, it's officially called the East Midlands where I am, but it's more the dead centre of England on a map). I much prefer living in Derbyshire to Kent though. I've only ever visited Calais in France for the day a couple of times by ferry when I was sixteen years old, which I also can't remember all that much, so I have no other country to compare England to I'm afraid. It has it's ups and downs like anywhere else I suppose. This part of the street I'm living on is a nice little friendly community all of it's own though. We are part town part countryside around where I live. I personally have family from both Ireland and Wales. Never been to Ireland, but I've been to the gorgeous seaside town of Llandudno in Wales, an amazing place to visit during the summer. Most other English people I've met/know are quite friendly. As a whole though, we are a nation of happy complainers. We love to complain to each other about everything, it's a national past time that we all do, subconsciously or otherwise. We could make complaining an Olympic sport if they would let us. 😆 Hot topics of complaint are currently about the weather, traffic, lockdown, brexit and the cost of daily living going up. Most of us have a very dry sense of humour (those of us who aren't a miserable bunch of course) and we like to make fun of ourselves and each other. Most of us are also chronic apologisers as we can also be a friendly but socially awkward lot. For example: I'm sorry if I'm boring you or if my answers are inadequate, but please feel free to ask me more specific questions if you like. 😊 My mum visited America via Texas on a month long sightseeing bus tour thirty eight years ago. She said she loved it there, but that she couldn't fathom the size of America. She said it was an amazing place to visit. What is it like in Texas if you don't mind me asking? 😄

[@jeanetteking434]

I enjoyed it.

[@araceli2827]

My mom taught me how to wash by hand so when when don't have electricity for a shortcut we can still wash small clothings

[@ella_cinder4361]

Well; its quite obvious this woman is a foodie! But I'm quite puzzled by the tutke as well. It only makes slight sense at the last comment if the video. Traveling around so much was exhausting for Victoria. It still doesn't make sense or explain why her childhood was troubling 😒🤷‍♀️

[@rocketamadeus3730]

Oh, the narration is going to be like this the whole time I guess...

[@emilynightingale7758]

like what?

[@HiddenCharmhome]

😂

[@billyandrew]

@@emilynightingale7758 Gushing?

[@Zeldafan1ify]

Lool

[@RLF1]

I lived in England for two years, near to London. The humans I met were very polite, caring, helpful. They call consider these humans commoners and subject by the royal family. The royal family would never have survived without them and should be serving these wonderful humans. That amazed me considering how lawless the British were for centuries all over the world, harming and murdering innocent people.

[@blueberrychocolate4238]

Amazing!

[@adriancampos1976]

The brits are invading my recommended page

[@edwardoleyba3075]

We get the blame for invading everywhere else so, why not? 😉

[@therealdeal3672]

Seems like a pretty charmed life to me, if you can overlook the 24-hour supervision. But with the history of treachery towards heirs to the throne of England, it was only prudent.

[@Heatherrrrr-uh2sl]

Too fun!

[@strongmindsjewelrylovers7518]

Title needs to change

[@belagracie]

This video isn’t described or titled correctly.

[@spookayitsme]

Should've piped the potato down into that veggie dish

[@sachac5435]

great video imagine they had there own private jet, done it in a tenth of the time

[@BuuWaterloo]

I want that potato-chestnut-bird recipe lol. Someone knows the recipe book where I can find it or the recipe?

[@pamelaschumacher5471]

Huh? This tells me nothing about why Queen Victoria's Childhood Was So Troubled........

[@Kitty-tc3oh]

@ 5:13 they talk about different types of staff. What is still room staff?

[@veronicafaber143]

A still room is a distillery. That's where they brewed the beer. Beer was very much women's work for most of history.

[@tamaragonzalez2227]

Well the headline does not match this video. Interesting but nothing about Victoria's troubled childhood in it.

[@annahhinman605]

Thank you!!! I swear I thought i was the only one you noticed this by the comments here

[@kelraven]

For the pheasant potatoes would they not have used some kind of piping bag? I can’t imagine them sitting there all day using their fingers and a spoon.

[@warbledurbler7905]

"Why Queen Victoria's Childhood Was So Troubled" Doesn't look too bad to me!

[@DanceSeek]

Why don't you make titles that have to do with the content of the videos? It seems the videos never reflect the titles, and this is another example. The only troubling thing about Victoria's childhood is mentioned in the last few seconds, and the rest of the video is about cooking, architecture, and daily life at this manor at the time of her visit. It seems like you're titling the videos to trick viewers into watching the whole thing to get to the advertised topic. It's quite annoying, and the reason that I usually don't watch anything from this channel.

[@thevirtualtraveler]

They say the house always wins. I suppose the Duke is the exception that proves the rule?

[@helenamirian908]

You know, this is the third "royal" dish I have seen Rosemary losing her goddamn mind over...and I'm seeing a theme. They've all been stodgy, incredibly simple foods at bottom, just meticulously decorated and/or layered in a buttered mold.

[@suzettecalleja3122]

Couldn't they just piped the mashed potatoes in the mold?

[@kweejibodali7009]

i. love this series but it starts off like a cooking show ?

[@GreenAppelPie]

So. much. pink.

[@debrasamaha3896]

Where can I get a copy of the recipes shone on this show?

[@nowasian7660]

What does he mean at 8:30 when he refers to Louisa as “a bit of a cracker”

[@shobarbaba]

okay

[@haileyfuentes6785]

You’re plastered! 😂

[@adrianachong9029]

I found out last year that I am a descendant of hers among a few other European royalty and a couple of American Presidents 😳. My shock that I’m connected to at least 20 historical figures. I now try to learn what I can of my ancestors.

[@honeybee2812]

Golden Easter bunny / xxxx

[@pacoo3712]

23:24 that was a fart

[@offwiththefairiesforever2373]

Yum

[@quinn4091]

The title has nothing to do with the content!

[@RiverSong79]

Clickbait title. Not happy

[@hilldwler420]

I see why my ancestors left the UK 🇬🇧 in the 18th century. Control education and keep the classes separate as possible. How deplorable. Being well-bourne or pay for a peerage or off to the workhouse with ye was just about the scene. If you were lucky , your family were tenant farmers on a prosperous farm.

[@glen7318]

how was it different in America? Killing off Indians to get hold of their land, working long hours,

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

Tim Wonnacott is insufferable

[@terrysmith1935]

Why you so upset i have english blood and irish with Cherokee and Navajo blood so dont get so worked up my friend my grandma had a lot of irish in her and her red hair showed who she was and she was a calm person very quite and when you offended her and you think she forgot hell no shed wait till you didnt see it comming then she tear u up good boy she lite my dad up and he had to lean foward to drive she took her fly swat and she tore him up thank god i was her favorite i looked just like her GOD i miss her😂😊😊😊

[@anoushkasaha3956]

Seasoned amazingly with salt and pepper!? Seriously? 😂 Buttered mashed potatoes with vegetable cuttings 😂😂😂 Here most servants would have more flavored food even for breakfast 🤣

[@MsWillowbayOrelse]

I like this series but it's been uploaded before..

[@harleyquinn2011]

This is not "troubled"...kinda misleading people here guys

[@samasiaskipperable]

🙏👍🙏

[@Griselda_Puppy]

*Troubled?? As if...must've been nice!* 😂

[@RLF1]

I come from a royal lineage on my dads side and a royal religious lineage on my moms side and never used it to my advantage, neither did my parents, and we weren't raised that way. Instead we were taught the true history of our ancestors on my dads side, his father left his country of birth never being able to take any riches with him under communist rule. And he had to start from nothing in the USA. My mothers side could never practice their religion in the USA due to religious persecution. So, when I see and hear all this pomp and circumstance, I learned, studied,, and know how these families ascended to be royalty and VIPS, remained, and survived at the expense of others who had nothing and served them knowing and allowing them to remain oppressed. The history involves bloody battles, death, murder, cheating, incest, theft, incrst, and other scandals. So as the people at the top dined with the best food, wore the best couture,jewels worth a fortune, lived in luxury, estates everywhere,, parties galore,, never worked a day in their life there is nothing admirable about them. They were self- serving and indifferent to the suffering and death of those beneath them due to all the illness, diseases, pandemics. They were not leaders they were dictators, cruel, egotistical who ordered prison and murder of their enemies and who displeased them. There was never a need for royalty, titles, rulers. We just need great leaders, humane laws and order, and mutually benefit each other, animals and the environment.

[@Teemo147]

Does he really speak like that lol

[@elizabethsheridan8496]

Why show a map of a divided Ireland? That act of malicious arrogance had yet to happen .

[@edwardoleyba3075]

Maybe because the north were considered a Scottish thing?

[@elizabethsheridan8496]

.?????

[@i.warrenhastings2526]

The image of the lone, groundskeeping gardener does bear out the way that essentially all of such an estate's grandeur exists in the active work of the staff. Without the structures it remains yet as the finest of luxurious picnics, whereas one month of no help and the place becomes a rapidly disintegrating monument to miserly excess and classism. I wonder what a starving Ethiopian would think of all this. Probably very little, frankly, the brain requires a massive supply of calories to function effectively... [Even I find this comment distasteful, but I've come too far to abort my abominable word-baby now. And so, just as a ping-pong ball in a Thailand strip club: fly my disgusting baby. You are now the problem of whatever degenerates have remained this far into the act...] °°squirp!!°°

[@kasvinimuniandy4178]

hahahahhahaha.... you're funny! hehehe.. It's distasteful alright but words are just words.

[@sparklebear1194]

First 🤣

[@sugarlxx]

Second 😂

[@Heatherrrrr-uh2sl]

Too fun!