Queen Victoria's Private Life Described In Her Own Words | A Monarch Unveiled | Real Royalty

Just because she had things doesn't mean she wasn't abused. This kind of thinking is why people who suffer emotional and psychological abuse aren't believed.

I don't think she was struggling to have motherly feelings because she was just obsessed with her husband. I think it goes deeper than that and it may have started during her childhood and her relationship with her own mother + unresolved trauma. How can you mother a child when you were not mothered properly yourself.

By far, this is my favorite documentary of the Queen Victoria. She was so complicated, so uncensored, a revolutionary. I do wish they would have touched on how she changed animal welfare…. She was pioneer and advocate for animals and pets. Regardless, this was a very informative and beautiful documentary.

I just love how the narrator flips from the British accent into the German accent when he refers to who was speaking. Such a delight. Well done.

Being a mother of 9 in those times is something.. childbirth could be deadly and she did it successfully so many times. Wow

Queen Victoria fascinates me but the way this story was being told by the host in this video is brilliant! He's the best ever!

I have seen so many Victoria documentaries and I really love this one. I still learned some things new and I'm grateful that the focus was her diaries and letters. And thank God you guys got Anna Chancellor to read them she's brilliant. That really sealed the deal.

One of the better docs on this queen. Brings HER to life way more than many other than focus boringly from the outside of her. Well done.

Love this. Very well done. Non-biased, very well researched. And INTERESTING. I learned so much.

I adored this fabulous documentary on Queen Victoria. Perhaps what helped to keep her going and gave her solace and insights, was the power of her journalling. More than her huband and her subsequent friendships, her pen was quite likely her most faithful companion. ❤❤❤

Wow, this guy's interpretation of her childhood is so obtuse. She had no socialization with kids, cut off from the outside world, then had a traumatic event when she was dismissed being close to death.

Wish there were more documentaries on Victoria. So hard to find good ones like this one

Ahh yes, A.N. Wilson. He makes it so easy to enjoy English history. An Englishman that we think was like the past, but only the modern world could create.

21:42 I think it’s wrong for him to exclaim that the myth of her unhappy childhood began. She is the only one who lived her childhood, she knows what she felt, just because she played with dolls and dressed up her dog doesn’t mean she was not abused or unhappy, she probably would have been clinging to the little things that brought her joy. He shouldn’t speak on her experience as such. 😢

This is one of the best British Royal documentaries I've watched on YouTube! I love the narrator -- he's a great story teller, & transports me back to QV's life/reign, like I'm watching her relive her life. I also love the woman who's reading the passages from QV's journals -- I could listen to her read/talk all day long. Lol 🖤👑

I love this guy! He’s so theatrical when reading quotes.

Fascinating, love this! An "Anglophile" and proud of my British background on my American maternal side which goes all the way back to William the Conqueror and 1066! The Drew family is one of the oldest families in the UK and is mentioned in William's Doomsday book where he compiled all the landowners and original families in England. Cheers from Yankee New England were we still have some similar customs here like authentic English teas at historic inns , hotels and homes and many of the historic towns and cities here are named after the ones in the UK ever since the 1600s/1700s, like Plymouth and Boston, the cradle of our hard won democracy just 246 years ago. In the time frame of 1000 years, really not that long ago when you look at those numbers!♥♥

A remarkable woman. Simply giving birth to nine children ,in those times, was an achievement in it's self.

Do they actually ever PROVE that Albert 'punished' Victoria for resenting his domination? She is described as someone desperately seeking a father-figure, which means WANTING someone like a father to tell you what to do, guide you, protect you, relieve you of the need to figure out and control everything on your own. Then they say that having got a husband she never ceases to bless God for, her mainstay, they make him into a villain, even though of course he could not legally ever wield ANY political power. Like ANY happily married person, she thinks that her husband (or wife, as the case may be) is the one partner you rely on, turn to, and trust FIRST before anyone else. I help prepare young couples for marriage, and only rarely have I seen a couple in which one or both of the partners thinks the other person's advice or ideas or preferences or 'ways' are contemptable. I advised the couples strongly NOT to marry. When I see couples who feel that the other person is the first person they turn to, who always want to know what the other one thinks, who takes their partner's opinion and input as the most trustworthy and reliable, then I know they will make a good marriage partnership. I don't know why they are saying that a woman from that era, especially, who always wanted father-like approval from men, had to be controlled or manipulated by her husband to act as Victoria did. She was acting perfectly in character for a woman deeply in love with a husband she admires and respects. I think feminism has so twisted the views of some of the presenters in this programme that they are filtering Victoria through their own prejudices. If her husband was such a monster, she'd have breathed a sigh of relief after Albert died, not mourned him for decades. You don't mourn an abuser.

Unfortunately one of her daughters chose to destroy much of her writing/letters after QV died which would have given even more insight to the inner Victoria which was allegedly what her daughter feared!