Queen Victoria's Children

nonu The idea of a picture of her "hanging" on your landing is interesting!
You must have really disliked her!

I watched all of the episodes one after the other on i-Player last night. It was mentioned that Victoria and Albert were so passionate about each other and enjoyed their sexual relationship immensely. It was said that neither had any idea about how to prevent children being conceived, so their babies were born in quick succession. Victoria seemed to see her children as a rather irritating nuisance, and something that was more an inconvenience to her relationship with Albert. She really did seem to be 'not a very nice woman', and very emotionally needy. If Albert had lived to be an older man things with the family may have been very different, perhaps.
Isn't it strange that she resented her children, rather than he did? Is it not often more the case that the father sees the children as the barrier between he and his wife?

Wonder if her constant physical demands were a bit too much for him and, with her being the Queen and all that he couldn't say he 'had a headache' ...

, crimson!

crimson do you think it was her constant demands that finished him off, rather than Bertie's misdemeanours. I think John Brown died relatively young as well

There was a comment somewhere that Albert suffered already from stomach troubles well before he got the typhoid which killed him. It sounds too as though he was a perfectionist, so he would have worried about details and produced a lot of stomach acid. Keeping up with Victoria in the bedroom as well as in daily decisions, and combatting the politicians who resented his influence would not have helped. The poor man was worn out.

He actually sound like quite a dear person.

I think most historians now agree that Albert didn't die of typhoid fever. Some think he had stomach cancer and some Crohn's disease.
Not suggesting it was anything to do with his death, but has anyone else read the book about how many Victorians were killed quickly or slowly by arsenic poisoning in green pigment in wallpapers, paint etc?
I often wonder how much illness and debilitation was down to contaminated foods and poor diet.
I think one thing that was good about V and A's treatment of their children was how they had a lot of freedom at Osborne with outdoor games, vegetable plots to tend etc. Quite unusual I think. They were certainly unusual in rearing nine live children.

I was trying to think of the name of Osborne House as I was going to mention it. Can't help but feel that was Albert's influence/idea.

I think Victoria had spent holidays on the I of W as a child and loved it. She certainly never wanted to leave it.

Nelliem

You little minx , CSL