The Forgotten Princess: Toria, Daughter of Edward VII

On 2 December 1935 King George V called off the State Opening of Parliament, the day before it was due. The seating was already up. The reason lay in a house in Buckinghamshire, where his sister was dying. Princess Victoria, the second daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, had been in the newspapers for sixty-seven years, nearly always beside someone more famous. The family called her Toria. She never married. She stayed at her mother's side through two reigns: Sandringham and Marlborough House, Copenhagen and the royal yacht, a brother's death in 1892 and a father's in 1910, the first Alexandra Rose Day, a war, and a mother's long decline. She took photographs that filled forty albums the public never saw. Only after her mother died, at fifty-seven, did she take a house of her own, at Iver, where musician friends came to play with her on Sundays, and took her to concerts where none of the audience knew who she was. A full-length documentary told from the documented record: the London Gazette, Hansard, The Illustrated London News, The New York Times, the Daily Mirror and other contemporary papers, the Royal Collection Trust, and the published letters and diaries of her family as quoted in the standard biographies. Where accounts conflict, the narration says so. Stories about her romances are reported only as the press claims they were. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 An Opening Called Off 1:01 Twenty-Five Minutes Past Four 4:47 Lord and Lady Renfrew 8:51 Our Three Sisters 12:41 The Eighth Carriage 18:27 All My Children 24:16 Six Days 33:02 Her Twenty-Fifth Birthday 41:12 For the Last Time 48:10 Sea-Pictures 56:22 The Princess Victoria 1:02:42 Two Cameras 1:09:38 The Woman of the Hour 1:17:11 Eleven Forty-Five 1:27:05 The Painful Duty 1:35:11 Mama and Toria Came to Tea 1:41:17 The Big House 1:47:41 Dear Victoria 1:56:01 The Lease 2:04:49 I Deeply Regret 2:14:50 Sundays at Iver 🔔 Subscribe to Royal Tea for long, unhurried documentaries on the forgotten members of the House of Windsor. Our film on her cousin Princess Marie Louise is on the channel.