In danger of being suffocated, the daughters hit back. Queen Victoria’s Children II: A Domestic Tyrant
They became unlikely champions of the independence of women. ibid.
The princesses had a problem – how to cope with their unmanageable mother. ibid.
By marrying, Alice escaped her mother’s suffocating grief. ibid.
The pair [Victoria & Vicky] exchanged 8,000 letters in what would be a life-long correspondence. ibid.
The Queen wasn’t just a domestic tyrant, she could seem shockingly unsympathetic. ibid.
Louise went to the National Art Training School. ibid.
A rift between Alice and her mother that would never heal. ibid.
Louise and her British aristocrat were married … The marriage was an unhappy one. ibid.
The ageing Victoria did her upmost to put Beatrice off marriage. ibid.
The Queen also felt threatened by Vicky’s intellect. ibid.
For Princess Louise, female emancipation became a burning commitment. ibid.
Princess Louise became known for her work with hospitals. ibid.
Her mother had been headstrong, emotional and controlling. ibid.
The relationship between Victoria and her sons would be an epic drama of sex and defiance. Queen Victoria’s Children III: Princes Will be Princes
Bertie had let the side down. ibid.
Alfie had been his father’s favourite son. ibid.
Arthur was fascinated by the army. ibid.
Leopold was the cleverest … Leopold had haemophilia. ibid.
Alfie had a reputation as a drinker and a womaniser … Alfie was dispatched to Australia. ibid.
His [Bertie] sociability was beginning to tip over into a voracious hedonism. ibid.
In 1870 Bertie’s scandalous private life burst into the open when he was named in a high-profile divorce case. ibid.
By almost dying, Bertie had established an emotional link with the public. ibid.
Victoria continued to exclude her eldest son from all state business. ibid.
Leopold died … he was only thirty. ibid.
In 1897 Britain celebrated Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee – sixty years on the throne. But the show of pomp and majesty on London’s streets concealed a very different royal story. Behind palace gates a secret war was waging over Queen Victoria’s shocking relationship with a servant ... he was an Indian. It was a relationship that violated Victorian taboos of race and class. Queen Victoria’s Last Love, Channel 4 2012
Abdul Karim was one of two Indian servants who had arrived as gifts from Her Majesty’s Indian empire. ibid.
Young Abdul didn’t only feed the Queen’s romantic imagination, within a few weeks of his arrival he was also adding some zing to the royal tastebuds. ibid.
Queen Victoria had never completely recovered from the death of her beloved German husband Prince Albert. For two decades John Brown, her Scottish servant, had been the Queen’s most intimate male companion. But in 1883 Brown died. And in Abdul Karim the Queen found the ideal replacement. ibid.
The Palace simmered with quiet rage over the servant who didn’t know his place. But the discontent was about to boil over into an unprecedented civil war between the Queen and her own court. ibid.
Increasingly he was seen as a security risk. ibid.
Victorian and Abdul were inseparable. ibid.
He died in 1909 at the age of 46. ibid.
This Germanic family known as the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas- Schleisweg-Holstein-Habsburg-Romanov-Cassel-Hesse shared the same tiny genetic blood-line. This can clearly be seen in a photograph of the British King George V standing beside Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Queen Victoria is considered the most British of all queens. Her husband was German. And she wrote letters of state in German. Contrary to what the royal spin-doctors have written in the school history books, Queen Victoria was not popular. She was often hissed in public. And there were no less than seven attempts to kill her. Keeping the populus ignorant, using adults and children alike as virtual slaves in work-houses, providing no adequate protection against hypothermia, working every man and woman to exhaustion, and imposing a crippling poll-tax, was the modus operandi of Queen Victoria and all her relatives sitting on the thrones across Europe. So-called Victorian values allowed children to be used as slave labour. The Bloodlines of the Illuminati
‘Women’s rights are a mad wicked folly’. Royal Babylon ***** Queen Victoria
A further four million died in Bengal’s famine. ibid.
The concentration camp was a British invention under Queen Victoria. ibid.
Whether the queen caused the period, or the period creates the queen, she fitted her time perfectly. Florence Becker Lennon, The Life of Lewis Carroll p27
Queen Victoria regularly used cannabis. Marijuana True History, 2010
Britain’s longest reigning monarch, mother of nine, grandmother of Europe, and Empress of India, Queen Victoria ruled in a century of revolution. Turbulence that cost other European monarchs their thrones, while Victoria reigned supreme. A N Wilson, Queen Victoria’s Letters, BBC 2014
She was one of the nineteenth century’s most prolific diarists. ibid.
Since her teens she had loathed her mother, the Duchess of Kent. ibid.
Victoria saw Albert through a thick hormonal fog. ibid.
In 1897 Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebrations were the expression of supreme confidence ... A N Wilson, Queen Victoria’s Letters II, BBC 2014
A woman who’d spent her entire life under the shadow of domineering men. ibid.
She wrote more than fifty million words. ibid.
A passionate human being and contrary to what is so often said she was frequently and easily amused. ibid.
She offered him [Gladstone] not one word of thanks. ibid.
Victoria loved the company of Abdul Karim. ibid.
Evidently never really felt at home in Britain itself. ibid.
Victoria: her empire ruled a quarter of the world’s population. But she was once a passionate excitable young girl. A girl who had to battle to become queen. Timewatch: Young Victoria, BBC 2017
It’s a story of greed and power … A bankrupt monarchy redeemed. ibid.
The royal family was becoming increasingly concerned about Conroy’s influence and greed for power. ibid.
It seemed as if matters between the king and the duchess could not get any worse. ibid.
‘Albert was too great a delight to describe.’ ibid. Victoria
‘She was a very passionate woman.’ Private Lives of the Monarchs s1e1: Queen Victoria, Yesterday 2017, historian
‘She was a drug taker.’ ibid.
We explore the young Victoria and her racy medicine cabinet. ibid.
‘There were seven assassination attempts on her life.’ ibid.
Victoria just wasn’t the maternal kind. ibid.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert created a collection unlike any other … that reflect their life together and their love for each other. They built houses and palaces in which they live out a grand version of domestic bliss: they filled them with tokens of their love … A new exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, puts many of Victoria and Albert’s gifts to each other on public view for the first time. Victoria: A Royal Love Story, BBC 2018
The hurled themselves into the highland lifestyle. ibid.
Victoria, the royal who invented the modern monarchy [sic]. The queen who made Britain an empire [sic]. But who is the real Victoria beneath the crown? Queen Victoria: Love, Lust & Leadership, Channel 5 2021
A sensuous young queen, a reluctant mother of nine, and devastated widow and a passionate wife. ibid.
Edward Oxford [assassination attempt] was bundled to the ground, arrested and later declared insane. To the public, Victoria and Albert were now heroes. ibid.