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

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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  • @celtgunn9775
    @celtgunn97755 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maryc7217

    5 жыл бұрын

    She actually asked Alice or Louise to redact her journals.

  • @mattc2094

    @mattc2094

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @forreal245

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mattc2094 VERY surprised about the photo & ring!

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look again not to quick

  • @bg9217
    @bg92173 жыл бұрын

    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

    @PatrickMHoey

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pschilling5424

    @pschilling5424

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @kclombard7956

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @QuesaDia05

    @QuesaDia05

    14 күн бұрын

    ​@@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.”

  • @stlounsbury
    @stlounsbury4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @terrybardy2848

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @sandramello3571

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Annika4000

    @Annika4000

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @wiezyczkowata

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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

    @paintedsmut5472

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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
    @dancingfirefly77614 жыл бұрын

    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

    @rainbowcoloursfly

    Жыл бұрын

    Amazing Queen Victoria 👸 God bless you today and always 🙏

  • @AkakaDomenjer

    @AkakaDomenjer

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @purplenymphe2572
    @purplenymphe25724 жыл бұрын

    "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

    @gazels11

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @MissJosephine93

    @MissJosephine93

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very shady jajajaja

  • @gazels11
    @gazels113 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @amyvalenzuela4386
    @amyvalenzuela43863 жыл бұрын

    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

    @thunderbird1921

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @made-line7627

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thunderbird1921 Thanks for the info. Very interesting!

  • @henningandersen9027

    @henningandersen9027

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @pschilling5424

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @henningandersen9027

    @henningandersen9027

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PassionFashionArt
    @PassionFashionArt5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @catherinepositano8544

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dianeshelton9592

    @dianeshelton9592

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @gtaylor6937

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Kristedlove333

    @Kristedlove333

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @flowermagnolia4551

    @flowermagnolia4551

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @KellyBurnett138
    @KellyBurnett1383 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @knockedoutloaded

    @knockedoutloaded

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nancydavies6446
    @nancydavies64462 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hammycats6919
    @hammycats69195 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @patricthime8000

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @patricthime8000

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @patricthime8000

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @juanecheyt
    @juanecheyt5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @GMAMEC

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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

    @juanecheyt

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @GMAMEC

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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.

  • @bevalee1533
    @bevalee15334 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @davesanders5426

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @bevalee1533

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@flowermagnolia4551 - *meet ?

  • @flowermagnolia4551

    @flowermagnolia4551

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bevalee1533 I corrected myself

  • @lilitharam44
    @lilitharam445 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheBorderRyker

    @TheBorderRyker

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lilith Aram I totally agree. 👌🏻

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    Conspiracy!

  • @servraghgiorsal7382
    @servraghgiorsal73822 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @melissa-wilson
    @melissa-wilson2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @forreal245
    @forreal2454 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JiminPalmSprings
    @JiminPalmSprings3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @toph4706

    @toph4706

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @julieegan1337
    @julieegan13375 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Go-go-super-guru
    @Go-go-super-guru2 жыл бұрын

    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
    @bobbybr935 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Master_Blackthorne

    @Master_Blackthorne

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, that's Disraeli for you.

  • @joellaz9836

    @joellaz9836

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @annika_panicka

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @longwhitemane

    @longwhitemane

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alazad816

    @alazad816

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph59062 жыл бұрын

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

  • @deletalunstrum86
    @deletalunstrum864 жыл бұрын

    A very interesting, and enlightening documentary. Thank you.

  • @jameschapman5989
    @jameschapman59893 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mycatisabastard2361

    @mycatisabastard2361

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @MartaEzis

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @ItsEricaBeyetch

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @FreeSpirit47

    @FreeSpirit47

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @DeniseEggertwaterlily

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @GregCurtin45
    @GregCurtin452 жыл бұрын

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

  • @shaitarn1869
    @shaitarn18695 жыл бұрын

    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

    @rickyskelland2751

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @tradingpost2472

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@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! 🤐

  • @sheenaevans6747

    @sheenaevans6747

    5 жыл бұрын

    I just thought exactly the same thing!!

  • @Ninineonangel77

    @Ninineonangel77

    4 жыл бұрын

    Elizabeth II is also a direct descendant of Queen Victoria

  • @meeeka

    @meeeka

    3 жыл бұрын

    I believe they will be embargoed for 100 years.

  • @sinnombre-xs9ub
    @sinnombre-xs9ub4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, thank you for posting

  • @Whocares.........
    @Whocares.........5 жыл бұрын

    Well done! Thanks for that! A fine piece.

  • @catherinepositano8544
    @catherinepositano85445 жыл бұрын

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

  • @elsbet1656
    @elsbet16563 жыл бұрын

    So much respect and love I have for her.

  • @angelsinger4574
    @angelsinger45745 жыл бұрын

    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

    @michaeljvm

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe a meant a female emperess

  • @frightbat208

    @frightbat208

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @virginiacook895

    @virginiacook895

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @margaretfollwell322

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @specialk4455

    @specialk4455

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @deborahheleggreza-greza36
    @deborahheleggreza-greza363 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wrongsalvation8904
    @wrongsalvation89044 жыл бұрын

    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

    @JaneDoe-uy8yk

    2 жыл бұрын

    How so?

  • @skyrocketcoast219
    @skyrocketcoast2193 жыл бұрын

    A brilliantly done documentary !

  • @kevangunn7163
    @kevangunn71632 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NinasVideoss
    @NinasVideoss4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @dln7527
    @dln7527 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @jamescarlton6016
    @jamescarlton60163 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @suevecchio7013
    @suevecchio70135 жыл бұрын

    just love these videos. Thanks

  • @ronaldstrange8981
    @ronaldstrange89812 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @frankwerner6355
    @frankwerner63553 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @AngryIrishMan
    @AngryIrishMan2 жыл бұрын

    John Brown, the most powerful pool boy in history

  • @MariVictorius

    @MariVictorius

    2 жыл бұрын

    👍🤣

  • @Vejur9000

    @Vejur9000

    2 жыл бұрын

    LOL. I have to say that was funny.

  • @lindamcknight4790

    @lindamcknight4790

    2 жыл бұрын

    😆

  • @ivaniatausche9321

    @ivaniatausche9321

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Vejur9000 my

  • @eveaka_vevvie8385

    @eveaka_vevvie8385

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂👍👍👍

  • @loriboufford6342
    @loriboufford63424 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @donnakerr4997
    @donnakerr49972 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @RealearthRocks
    @RealearthRocks5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @benbouchard4487

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @annbush1826
    @annbush18263 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @thenoworriesnomad
    @thenoworriesnomad2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent documentary and God Bless Her....

  • @TheAnish01
    @TheAnish013 жыл бұрын

    The narrator is excellent master of his work.

  • @arghoghosh6507
    @arghoghosh65073 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832
    @maesapolu18323 жыл бұрын

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

  • @elcubanito2442
    @elcubanito24422 жыл бұрын

    That was so good, so good. Thanks!

  • @LotusLady9
    @LotusLady92 жыл бұрын

    Love this documentary👑

  • @imcnagpc2
    @imcnagpc25 жыл бұрын

    That narrator has some snappy outfits.

  • @stefaniabisazza6330

    @stefaniabisazza6330

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahah

  • @trapjaw7253

    @trapjaw7253

    3 жыл бұрын

    They all do.

  • @rosarioperez7509
    @rosarioperez75095 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @youtubehatesus2651
    @youtubehatesus2651 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @rainydaywoman5758
    @rainydaywoman57588 ай бұрын

    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..

  • @Aces77777
    @Aces777773 жыл бұрын

    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

    @sreyamajumdar2295

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @pschilling5424

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @blueXRPdynamite.
    @blueXRPdynamite.5 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy that, thanks.🙂

  • @markbyrum4743
    @markbyrum4743 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @maggiebugden9463
    @maggiebugden94632 жыл бұрын

    Interesting read. Thank you 😊

  • @Bailey2006a
    @Bailey2006a5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maryc7217

    @maryc7217

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @chinghy12
    @chinghy123 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rogerkershaw376
    @rogerkershaw3763 жыл бұрын

    Applause! Thank you!

  • @pipermoonshine3281
    @pipermoonshine3281 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @surfergirl2943
    @surfergirl29432 жыл бұрын

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

  • @linzieross2702
    @linzieross27023 жыл бұрын

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

  • @margiesoapyhairbillian4754
    @margiesoapyhairbillian475411 ай бұрын

    Great documentary. I learned now information 😊😊

  • @emiann1017
    @emiann10173 жыл бұрын

    such an interesting time in history.

  • @jackielolli3488
    @jackielolli34885 жыл бұрын

    I so enjoyed this.

  • @1171
    @11713 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @munshising8573
    @munshising85732 жыл бұрын

    AN Wilson! Excellent!

  • @jeanetterosado7061
    @jeanetterosado7061 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome history I love this ..

  • @lissettesbloom8223
    @lissettesbloom82233 жыл бұрын

    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

    @thunderbird1921

    3 жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @Gertyutz
    @Gertyutz5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @frightbat208

    @frightbat208

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @annika_panicka

    @annika_panicka

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maesapolu1832

    @maesapolu1832

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @user-qo8pi4fb3v
    @user-qo8pi4fb3v2 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video

  • @chronicstitcher7933
    @chronicstitcher79333 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @barronmaxxx2991
    @barronmaxxx29914 жыл бұрын

    I found this smashing!

  • @mayageorge1847
    @mayageorge18475 жыл бұрын

    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

    @brigitafeher9105

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @laalaag2auntyayag776

    @laalaag2auntyayag776

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @belmum1689

    @belmum1689

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@brigitafeher9105 thanks it worked for me

  • @herreguda6199

    @herreguda6199

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@brigitafeher9105 Ingenious life hack!! Thank you 😍

  • @pschilling5424

    @pschilling5424

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @donnacicero9476
    @donnacicero94762 жыл бұрын

    Very nice. I’m sure I would have loved Victoria. I love the stories of her life’s.

  • @sheilawhite8314
    @sheilawhite8314 Жыл бұрын

    what am amazing insight into Queen Victoria. her life reminds me of some of the now Royals

  • @aroha4751
    @aroha47513 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pandora8478

    @pandora8478

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @carolking6355
    @carolking63553 жыл бұрын

    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

    @carolinecollett956

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Shelly-mz9yf
    @Shelly-mz9yf12 күн бұрын

    Agreed I'd love to learn more about this woman

  • @chelseatheplumber9964
    @chelseatheplumber9964 Жыл бұрын

    Love this

  • @trhendricks2216
    @trhendricks22163 жыл бұрын

    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"

  • @sofiaparsons22
    @sofiaparsons223 жыл бұрын

    I was born in the wrong era. I spend most of my time getting lost in these type of documentaries.

  • @SkarKingg

    @SkarKingg

    3 жыл бұрын

    Theres many of us out there

  • @siaracastic2515

    @siaracastic2515

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yess

  • @ronelynpineda378

    @ronelynpineda378

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same here

  • @mikewillis2934
    @mikewillis2934 Жыл бұрын

    Remarkable documentary

  • @shirleymoore4837
    @shirleymoore48372 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @nanovahidy5172
    @nanovahidy51724 жыл бұрын

    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
    @deecantola19233 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jamescairns4051
    @jamescairns40512 жыл бұрын

    Nice little visual reference to Dash at 54:20 🐶❤️

  • @ii.hxnako
    @ii.hxnako2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kesharkhadkapunwar2029
    @kesharkhadkapunwar20293 жыл бұрын

    Timeline, Thanks! You made my day. All the best! 👏🌹🙏 🇳🇵Hail Nepal !!!

  • @user-by5hn1jf3b
    @user-by5hn1jf3b4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @AquaFonic

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mycatisabastard2361

    @mycatisabastard2361

    3 жыл бұрын

    So...basically, she was a human being

  • @terrybardy2848

    @terrybardy2848

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MartaEzis

    @MartaEzis

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @pschilling5424

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jamesmansbridge5330
    @jamesmansbridge5330 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @susieangelo6410
    @susieangelo64103 жыл бұрын

    Bravo!

  • @tradingpost2472
    @tradingpost24725 жыл бұрын

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

  • @c.s.7266
    @c.s.72665 жыл бұрын

    What I'd do to get to see the Highland Games. I hope I get the opportunity.

  • @crystalfabulous
    @crystalfabulous4 жыл бұрын

    Magnificent

  • @rileywilliams9799
    @rileywilliams97994 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tamaragonzalez2227

    @tamaragonzalez2227

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @rileywilliams9799

    3 жыл бұрын

    @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

    @terrybardy2848

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @aroha4751

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oops

  • @pinkbunny6272

    @pinkbunny6272

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

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