What Life Was REALLY Like for Queen Victoria | Boring History for Sleep

Behind the frowning old woman in black on the coins and the statues, the real Queen Victoria was far stranger, warmer and lonelier than the legend allows. She was never allowed to sleep in a room by herself until the day she became queen, at eighteen. She dressed a hundred and thirty-two wooden dolls, bathed her spaniel on the evening of her coronation, proposed to her own husband, called childbirth chloroform a blessing, ate so fast that her guests lost their dinners, and gave the man she loved paintings of bathing nudes for his birthday — and after he died she had hot water carried to his empty room every morning for forty years. Because to the world, she was a symbol. To herself, she was a woman who wrote everything down. In this video, we follow the whole of Queen Victoria's life, from her birth at Kensington Palace in eighteen nineteen to her death at Osborne House in nineteen oh one, and uncover what her days were actually like at every stage of it. Discover why her childhood was run by a set of rules called the Kensington System, what really went wrong at her coronation, and why her marriage to Prince Albert was far more passionate than "Victorian" suggests. We'll also examine the assassination attempts she drove straight back into, the nine children and the haemophilia she passed to the thrones of Europe, Balmoral, Osborne and the Great Exhibition, the forty years of black, John Brown and the Munshi, whether she ever really said "we are not amused," the telegram she sent to the whole empire, the secret things placed in her coffin, and what her own daughter did to the diary she kept for nearly seventy years. Slow, calm narration, made to help you fall gently asleep. Resources: Queen Victoria – Historic Royal Palaces, Kensington Palace – https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-pal... Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901) – The Royal Family – https://www.royal.uk/queen-victoria Queen Victoria's Journals (1832-1901) – Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford – https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/histo... Gifts exchanged between Victoria and Albert shed light on their relationship – English Heritage – https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/a... History of Osborne – English Heritage – https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v... Victoria, queen of United Kingdom – Encyclopaedia Britannica – https://www.britannica.com/biography/...