Charlotte making sure her daughters won’t have to go through the burden of being “bred” is truly remarkable considering so many people would wed their children for socio/eco gain
Yeah. Queen Charlotte is a very sweet and progressive mother. I might not necessarily agree with her methods, but she was certainly ahead of her time. I wish more mothers then and now would encourage their daughters their worth isn't just based on beauty and fertility. ❤️
The only issue is that she also barred her daughters from marrying the men they loved, even if it wasn’t a politically advantageous marriage, and was a genuine love-match with a lower ranking man. While I understand Charlotte didn’t want them to spit out 15 children like herself, I don’t understand why she wouldn’t want them to be happy with a person who loved them for THEM not for the political gain they could grant them
@@laurakastrup yes agreed! I do know that the mentality was very different back then on marrying outside of your class, so that is probably what lead her to prevent that as well. If her daughters weren’t going to be married to upper class men than they certainly weren’t gonna be married to lower class men. I do still think she had the right idea but executed it too strictly but for her time it was quite progressive.
Must have been awful for the daughters, restricted from the ability to become mothers by a mother blessed with many loving children. It sure was progressive, but was it good. We are the most progressive ever now, and we've never been more lonely and depressed.
Stating my genealogical searches again, my paternal great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth, gave birth to 17 children, including consecutive sets of twins. 13 survived to adulthood. How she managed to survive the pregnancies and live to be 74 is quite amazing.
Honestly if you live past the first 8 children you’re probably made of iron stuff. At that point it’s pretty clear childbirth ain’t gonna kill you. Death probably had to take Elizabeth in her sleep cause otherwise she would have beat his ass
My grandmother was the 13th of 14 children, all of whom survived to adulthood. (Good Irish Catholics, so no birth control etc.) Her brother Francis was killed in the Great War, but the others all lived fairly normal lives. She was the last to pass, living into her 80s.
It breaks my heart what Anne went through one is unbelievably cruel but to lose 17 babies! Then your 11 year old child to die. I can’t even begin to imagine how she felt
@@liz2saintvideos Well u can still become a mom. Only it won't be easy but u will get the best deal! Sometimes baby's come from your belly, and sometimes from the hearth. As a mother who gave birth too 6 healthy kids. But one came from my I hearts.. I can tell u: It beats every pregnancy!!! Number 7 we adopted, born during a war what killed the baby's familie. I can't explain the kind of love you get, it is very special!
My dad has that same blood disease, antiphospholipid syndrome and I’m infertile. I feel lucky that, for one, my dad is able to live a fairly normal life with a normal life span despite his illness, and that medical treatments have advanced so that a lot of us with infertility are able to have at least one child.
🌸 same and in those days there was no mental therapy of any kind, you had to suck it up and continue with life as best as you can with head held high. These women, not just on video, but from the past eras are pure inspirational and very strong both physically and mentally
Queen Charlotte sounds so cool... Allowing her daughters to have the life she never could, while also just being an amazing and selfless mother at that time...She was before her time 😢
You're absolutely right. Queen Charlotte is a very sweet and progressive mother. I might not necessarily agree with her methods, but she was certainly ahead of her time. I wish more mothers then and now would encourage their daughters their worth isn't just based on beauty and fertility. ❤️
@@alietheartist734 Catherine Parr was a womans rights advocate long before the word existed, as she convinced Hernry to also have his daughters considered eligable heirs.
@@schneeroseful Parr was extremely underrated IMO. Like Katherine Howard, she was already in love with someone else when she married King Henry but was smart enough to wait for him to die before going back to her lover.
@@alietheartist734 Not only did all of King Henry's male children die young, neither of his daughters gave him any grandchildren to continue his line. Both Mary and Elizabeth even neglected to maintain Henry's grave after he died.
Especially if you have 17?? Losing a single child is unbearable for many people, I cannot fathom having that many children and not a single one surviving you 💔
How strong these women were physically and especially emotionally for dealing with so much loss but still carrying on. They had no choice but, they carried on with grace
They sure did. And I greatly admire them for it. Any lady who is able to carry on despite losing a child or multiple children has my respect and admiration. ❤️
The record for most children born to one woman in my family tree is held by my fourth great grandmother on my Dad’s side, who gave birth to 26 children (including two sets of twins), all but three of whom lived to adulthood. I also feel very fortunate to have the option to have as many or as few children as I want.
@@ItsLunaRegina I would definitely at least sit him down and talk to him, if you truly don't want to leave him. Sabotaging birth control is pretty messed up
You must realize the bond between these queens and their children is not like modern day parents. Their children were brought up by wet nurses, governesses, tutors and probably saw their parents only once in a while. Kings and Queens were far too occupied with matters of state and the court to see their children every day.
My grandmother had 12 children! All survived to adulthood. And she is alive as well. I have over 50 first cousins. It’s always a party when we are all together!
Not that it’s right but I think the reason they now call her biracial is because she had biracial characteristics… she’s never been called that until recently and I think the only reason the royal family finally “admitted it” was the pressure to do so.. people thought they were trying to hide the fact she was half black but in reality her African ancestors were so far back she’s not really biracial
Yes I agree! I think she would be fascinating to learn about. Seems there was a bunch of intrigue. Also why did she become a nun ? Has her husband passed away or was that the normal thing to go to a convent. I thought that’s where many were sent as punishment.
@@NanaD-ve9tt It would be funny if she became a nun while her husband was still alive (which happened, but rarely). Like "OK, my work here is REALLY done ... peace out!"
My mother in law has 13 children (7 still at home) and they all love each other so much, but in menopause she is struggling to find her identity. Children can be a blessing if you're financially stable, but the toll on the mothers mental and physical health is never discussed enough. Humans are just not built for that.
Like parenthood in general- some are cut out for it, some aren't. My grandfather was one of thirteen and his mother seems to have been OK with it. I suppose having most of the family living nearby helped.
I went through menopause when I was in my 30's. It's misery but it doesn't last forever. I'm actually enjoying post menopausal life. Hang in there. Things will get better.🌹🍃
Empty nesting is common no matter how many children you have. My SIL had 2, both are grown and moved out, neither are having kids. They were raised well and are great people. She never developed herself past being a mother. That was her whole identity. Now that her kids don’t need her, she doesn’t know who she is. She has latched onto my kids a long time ago to fill the void. I know a lot of younger women who only identify themselves as a mom. They live everyday for their kids, and never a day for themselves. They are going to have a rude awakening when the kids get older.
There are other ways to enjoy motherhood when your kids are adults. It's ok for your identity to be tied to being a mom, as long as you can enjoy their adulthood and independence.
I agree. We need to talk about the well-being of mothers more often, especially after they give birth. Yes, the baby will be the center of attention once they arrive, but we can't forget about the mother and we need to remind her that she is still important, arguably as much as the baby.
My great grandmother was the oldest of 16 children. Needless to say, after helping to raise so many siblings, she only had one child (my paternal grandfather) and not until age 35 (old for 1923). Her family lived on a farm in Texas. They had to have a lot of kids to work the farm. Lol
Same with my great grandmother. My grandmother was one of the oldest and said all she ever remembers doing is cooking and doing dishes. Then getting ready to do it all over again. She only had four children which is small for a Mormon family lol
That was the same with my great-grandfathers family. He was #10 of 13 and his wife was one of 11. Out of his siblings, 1 died as an infant, one died as a child and one died at 28 I suspect either from illness or childbirth. He and the rest outlived their parents and he outlived all of them.
Same with my grandmother. She was one of 14 children, they all lived in the country and had to work the fields. Her and my grandfather had two children, in their thirties.
Both of my grandmothers came from large Texan farm families. One had only my mother, my father’s birth mother died at 17, and my Mamaw became his mother when he was 5. She had one other son 10 years after that and a stillborn daughter. I remember stories of how hard life was for my grandmothers and their female family members. I don’t recall any of my great aunts having more than 2-3 children.
EDIT: Dear Fellow Commentators, PLEASE STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OR ANYONE ELSE THAT QUEEN CHARLOTTE WAS "BI-RACIAL". SHE WAS NOT. And it was never "CONFIRMED" as Lindsay states in this video. That was false information and not historically accurate by any means. I would appreciate it she would edit the video and previous videos where she refers to Queen Charlotte as such. Especially if this channel’s purpose is to make history accessible and enjoyable. I’d certainly like to know who CONFIRMED Queen Charlotte’s bi-racial identity. Always cite your sources. Make sure they are credible. Labeling Queen Charlotte as "bi-racial" implies that one of her parents was fully of African descent. Instead, it would be more accurate to say that she was of alleged African descent, as both of her parents families have roots in Europe for several generations. Margarida de Castro e Souza was herself a descent from a 6 times removed speculated (albeit unproven) Moorish woman. Note that "moorish" isn’t necessarily Black. This supposed ancestry has been contradicted by genealogists, who trace Margarita's descent to Afonso III of Portugal and a mistress of his called Madragana Afonso. As an African American and genealogy nerd, I find Queen Charlotte’s possible African ancestry interesting, but it does us all a disservice to portray inaccuracies.
@@ficfan3484 She does great work, and as a historian, I know it isn’t easy. Hopefully she sees these comments and makes the proper corrects for the sake of accuracy.
@Destiny Everyone has a wide ethnic inheritance. However, to say that a person is bi-racial, implies that their parents are of 2 different races. I do not like to use the term race, as I believe humankind is one race of many ethnicities. But for clarity based on the modern definition of race, the claim of Queen Charlotte being bi-racial is inaccurate.
I spent 40 consecutive months pregnant and breastfeeding in my mid 20's. Two children were enough for me and it was a real pleasure to get my body back. I can't imagine having one pregnancy after another for 20 or more years.
Speaking of large families, the Bonapartes would be an interesting family to profile next. Napoleon's many siblings are all too often written off as hangers-on to their celebrity brother's coattails but they had some truly fascinating lives in their own right. Heck even his parents are rather interesting people in the context of Corsica's history.
Napoleon was my 8th great uncle on my mom's side. I've looked up his history and find it fascinating. Maybe you could do a who video on him. Thank you.
My grandmother gave birth to 16 children with her last one being a stillborn. The family was very Catholic. My dad is #9. She had a mental breakdown when she had 5 under 5 years old. She begged her priest to let her use birth control - he said no! So she went on to have 10 more. Lived until she was 84. Good woman. A strong woman really. Ahhh, but if only her religion didn't dictate her reproductive choice! ❤M
My nan was like this. She had 5 kids in 5 years. When she went into the mental health unit, my grandfather couldn't look after them until my grandmother came back (typical 1960s man😩) The two youngest went into foster care and the 3 eldest (including my mother) went into a children's home. My uncle ended up with behavioural problems. My nan did have an abortion, but it was very hush hush with her borrowing money from my great aunt.
Poor woman...I wonder how many of those 84 years she was truly happy. Or snuck off to cry in the bathroom with the sink running like me.... Even facturing in post partum depression.
@@mediocremaiden8883 Right?! She was very much in love with my grandfather, and she told all of her kids how much she loved them but man, life didn't have to be so hard for her as it was. My grandfather went to work every day while she stayed home. Just 1 income for 17 people! It's difficult to fathom really. She attributed everything to God in the end. That's where she derived her power from.
The females in my family are prone to fraternal twins (multiple egg releases during ovation). My grandmother was one of 18 children, with several sets of twins. My aunt, in the late 70s, lied her way into a hysterectomy after her 3rd set. There are 11 sets of fraternal twins among my cousins and I on that side.
Why would she lie her way into a hysterectomy. She could have just gotten her tubes tied, or a vasectomy for the husband. A hysterectomy is kinda overkill and physically traumatic when an option that is just as effective is available.
@@hardtogetnamehere I had to beg my doctor for a tubal ligation after having my children. He said I was too young and a lot of doctor's cite this reason for refusing to perform a tubal; . The only reason why he did it was because I was married for over ten years at the time. This was in 2006, so I can't imagine what the school of thought was in the '70s. My husband could've gotten a vasectomy, but that wasn't going to stop me from getting a tubal ligation. I was done with having children and was leaving nothing to chance.
I think it's so interesting to mention that they had staff behind them such as wet nurses to ensure they could care for all of those kids. Whereas my great grandma had 17 living children and she was responsible for raising them all. Makes me wonder how on earth our ancestors who did not have the staff managed
Parents who couldn’t afford nannies simply made the elder children raise the younger ones. You can see it in any fundie family today. It’s called the ‘buddy system’ in those circles but the rest of us just call it parentification
@@NightcrawlerofR to be fair you don’t need to be a fundie to have had a massive family back then. You just need to be hot for your husband, a fertile match and not have access to birth control lol
in the part where you talked about Queen Anne of England, I love that you also were thoughtful enough to talk about what medication could have saved her babies. In the back of my head, I've always wondered why she lost/miscarried so many kiddos.
Strong women. Especially with how dangerous pregnancy and delivery during their time. I needed c-sections to have my children. And I'm so happy I wasn't alive back then cause I would have died during child birth!
I also would have died during childbirth. My pelvic outlet is abnormally narrow, and my baby had "football player" shoulders. Thank goodness my OB knew beforehand; scheduled Caesarian. I am also grateful he didn't tell me all the ***details*** of how we both would have died until I asked ... post birth.
@@tangenty6987 yup. I have a heart shaped uterus with a septum that separates it into 2 chambers. Once my first was born I was informed afterwards I would have been one of those women that died in a field. Very thankful for the medical advances we have now!
@@No-sv6mu But you do realize that you could be spreading your bad genes to your daughters... Genes that resulted in your misshapen uterus. I think it used to be a natural selection to weed out women bad genes before modern medicine figured out how to save these women. I also know a lady who knows her uterus is irregularly shaped and she chose not to have children to avoid both trouble giving birth and a risk spreading bad genes to future generation
@@EvgeniyaJZ nope it wasnt caused by genetics. Just a error when I was forming in my mom. Similar to how a child might be born with a cleft palate. Things just didnt merge together the right way as I was developing.
I love your videos but I wish you’d stop referring to Queen Charlotte as “Britain’s first biracial Queen”. Someone who has to go back 13 generations for a confirmed black ancestor cannot claim blackness in any way
Your forgetting one important detail, these royals were inbred severally. So really 13 generations while a bit far back doesn't mean much when everyone in the family kept marrying first couisins. He's probably her grandfather a dozen times over at that point👀
My great-great-grandmother gave birth to 24 children. My great-grandmother being the second youngest. Her younger sister got pregnant at 16 and was shiped to Denmark and they never saw each other again. As a result of this, my great-grandmother was scared of pregnancy and birth. Giving birth to my grandmother at 33 and never having anymore children.
My great great grandma had 21 children, 2 died. She lived till 92. The family was poor, no wet nurses or staff here to help. I think as in all large families the older kids help with the younger ones. My neighbours had 11 children and I noticed how much the older ones had to do .
Without even watching the video, I can tell that many people will be saddened by Queen Anne's story. She lost ALL of her children before they became teenagers and they ALL died before her. ALL 17. No wonder she was severely depressed...
Can't describe my delighted surprise that you started with Mumtaz Mahal. For some reason, I thought you were only going to talk about European queens. So happy to hear Indian history on this, one of my favorite channels.
Imagine being shipped off like a package as a child for a marriage where you and your husband just hate each other all the time but you still have to sleep with him as much as it takes to even get pregnant 17 times. Even if that was „normal“ back then, UGH is all i can say
For very young wives, they might be sent to live with their husbands, but there would generally be an understanding that a sexual relationship wouldn't start until, say, a year after their first period (and puberty generally occurred later than it does today, which would generally place the girls in their mid-teens). Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother to King Henry VII, had him at age 13 after a challenging labour, and never had any other children. Even back then, it was said that she had simply been too young to have a child, and her body suffered permanent damage as a result.
The church was very against it but obviously the politics of nobles was involved. Older men with very young brides was thankful usually related to politics (e.g. she was more legitimate in his title than him and being married meant she couldn't just be kidnapped and his rivals would have to kill him), though King John was one of those exceptions (much to everyone's disgust). In the other classes the church was successful in their campaigning and marriages between the young typically came with a contract agreeing that they wouldn't cohabiting until about 18-20, within the average of 16-22 for people to marry. Over time they also used the fact of the danger of infertility to stop even nobles from doing it, as the danger of a succession dispute was always paramount.
Brutal times for the ladies back then . My own grandma had 12 children!!! My great great grandfather was married twice and had 18 total children they all worked the farm . The needs of a wife then are scary to me it’s just a lot to put a body through.
Because breastfeeding generally delays the return of a woman's period after giving birth, the use of wetnurses in these noble families also worked to increase the number of pregnancies. In the average peasant family, the pregnancies would have been naturally spaced further apart (although there are of course exceptions with some women having no trouble conceiving while they are still breastfeeding).
My dad is one of 12( technically 13 but one was a miscarriage). My Grandma and grandpa kept all of them feed and healthy despite raising them in poverty. No royal servants and nursemaids to help. I once told my mom I wanted 10. You know like an idiot.
You were probably too young to understand, like I was as a child. I always dreamed of having a happy marriage and lots of children. I still have those dreams, but now I know better than just start a family all willy-nilly. It takes time, planning, and a good nest egg for security. The most important thing is to have a soulmate to marry and/or have children with. ❤️
More the merrier. Also there is never a prefect time, as this story shows you must deal with hardship if you want blessings. Most childlessness today if of those who wanted children but waited too long, everyone also knows many women who dearly wanted more children but were lucky enough to conceive those they did in their late 30's.
I've absolutely no idea how these women used to manage raising all those kids without an army of nannies and home servants. And giving births without pain relief.
The TFR in 1930s US dropped to 2.1 children per woman replacement rate. Having 22 siblings was as abnormal in the 1930s as now. Remember cheaper by the the dozen came out only soon after they obviously were not the norm.
My grandmother had 17 children which included 3 sets of twins (2 Girls, 2 Boy and then my mom and her twin brother). My mother had 9 children (8 boys and then me). My brothers have no less than 5 kids each. Including one brother who had 2 sets of twins back to back.
@@bridgetmidget3592 I met a lady who had two sets of big strapping boy identical twins 18 months apart, and she was pregnant with her third set of identical twin boys. She said they were DONE after that set. Her dr said it was in the billions of chances to have three sets of identicals, and she went to have 6 kids under 4. They were really nice looking kids, and big and healthy. She was soo tiny.
Wow, I love big families! That's so amazing but for sure hard work as well. Everybody has to play a part in the household and upbringing so that it works out well. ' I once had visited a family with 14 kids, 2 of them already moved out. They had a room for the girls and a room for the boys. 6 of them had been homeschooled at that time, the older ones worked during daytime while doing college online at night. They had a weekly plan for the household which includes every child from age 6 and upwards doing their part of cleaning and laundry. There were strict rules which includes only running and playing loudly (e.g. also screaming) in the backyard. In the house they were only allowed to play quietly and without running. During 2-4pm was quiet time and their mum could rest a little bit while the kids could do everything but in silence. I really really liked that concept and it worked very well!
must be a blessing to have a big family. so many have nobody to turn to for anything ! no family!and no good times like at holidays. LIFE GETS REAL COLD without a good sized family of people who care about each other. Life gets real hard all alone , especially as people get older.
My great x2 grandmother had 16 children, with my great grandmother being the youngest. Despite the several pregnancies and constant stress from all of those children, she's remembered as a very kinda woman despite the several pains in her neck.
My grandmother (father’s mom) was the youngest of 8. 1 son and 7 girls. She in turn only had 1 son because having my dad almost killed her and this was in 1937
My mom is from a family of 13. The most interesting thing is, my grandmother had most her kids in a certain month or weeks off. We know what was happening up in the mountains during the holidays! Lol
My Great Grandma Betty has 15 children (born between 1955 & 1975). She & My Great Grandpa Ralph have been married for almost 70 years. My Grandma Donna is there oldest child (she has many stories from what it was like to grow up the oldest of 15). They where Irish Catholic and most still live in Chicago. To say that the family gatherings are chaotic is an understatement.
Would you say to your knowledge if your grandmother seems to know all of her siblings well? I feel like with that many siblings you might be like to not know some very well
@@matteusconnollius1203 baloney. they know them well enough. And no doubt there's always someone there for them when one is in need. Unlike those without hardly any family.
As a female history major in college, constantly surrounded by World War II and Roman History Guys™ who try to mansplain everything to me, you have no idea how grateful I am to have found your channel. Thank you for providing such interesting videos, and for creating a judgement free environment that welcomes more of us ladies in history!!!
@@brumbrum987654321 People like that think if you are a woman studying something beyond grade 12, that's also odd and against nature. They'll assume they'll put "over emotion/sensitivity" into everything because that's "wut the wimmiz do". Furthermore, they think if you are not a cold, devoid, calculating machine, and have any opinion out of "bee-boop-beep-muhlogicz", you have no right to further education, (hint-hint), or they will question your legitimacy. It is simply just their way.
Just a correction in the Mumtaz mahal segment- Mughal empire consisted of India (including Kashmir) Pakistan and Afghanistan. Always enjoy these historical videos ☺️ maybe we could see some more Indian history videos - the Marathas, Mughals for starters have a lot of interesting historical drama😅
My great grandma literally was a single mother of 12. My mom's dad's mom, this was during Jim Crow segregation in the 50s and 60s in Virginia. And about 3 years after she died, my mom named me after her. RIP, Grandma Gracie
@@thatrenaissancelady The father of her children wanted to marry her, but his parents married him off to another woman because they hated her So she was alone raising 12 kids and she made sure all of them went through school and got their education made something of themselves.
Yikes. My dad was one of 10, and one of my aunts had 15. According to family history my great aunt had 24 or 25 children, but only the ones which lived long enough to be christened (16) are recorded. She apparently had 3 sets of triplets and 4 sets of twins, but there’s only christening records for one set of triplets, plus it’s possible that some of the christening records for twins were triplets where one died at birth.
Having so many pregnancies very often took a toll on women, queen's no different. Being a queen consort with so many pregnancies us one thing but being a queen regnant like Maria Theresa and being almost all the time pregnant, that's though. I didn't expect any polish dynasties related historical characters but Anna Jagielonica is part of dynasty that ruled Poland, Hungary and Bohemia, and two of her daughters married another Jagiellonian Sigismundus II Augustus. Wow, I had no idea that kingdom of Armenia has so many bloody chapters in terms of deposed kings
My maternal grandmother had 13 kids, one died as a baby(girl), one was killed in one assault(he had 2 small kids, 2y/o and 2 months), the rest are still alive, she died of heart problems(around the same time as her son), we were 53 grandkids( 1 died as a kid falling from a three 40 years ago), my mom was #10 and she was the first one to be born in a hospital
My great-grandmother gave birth to 16 children with giving birth to her first child at merely 15. I am 21 right now and by 21 she already had 3 kids and was pregnant with her 4th. It's so wild to think and compare the stark differences between our times and how she had practically no autonomy over her body. Poor medical facilities and lack of medical knowledge didn't make things better, every pregnancy could either end well with a healthy child or death. Thank you Lindsay for the fascinating video!
By my age (37), my grandmother had been working since she was 13- one marriage behind her, was on to her second- & had had 6 pregnancies/ births- & had moved from the town of her birth, to a different part of the state for her second husband’s* work... It still blows my mind what they managed. *actually- she’d left her first husband, & didn’t marry her second (my grandfather) ‘til a year after their third child (my mother)...
I’m sorry but your great grandmother is the exception, not the norm. Most 21-year-olds in the 1920s and 1930s didn’t have any children let alone 3. The TFR in the US (and I’m guessing a lot of European countries too had similar patterns) was 3 children per woman in 1925 and had fallen to 2.1 children (replacement rate) by the late 1930s. Your great grandmother literally had her kids in the flapper age, a time when women were gaining more and more rights every year. And the most unusual thing that you think was normal was the fact that she had her first at 15. Most 15-year-old girls didn’t even have their periods until about 1960. See decline in age at menarche due to processed foods and chemicals. A 15-year-old having a baby is about as common a century ago as now.
And then there is Emily FitzGerald (née Lennox), Duchess of Leinster who gave birth to 22 children. Her father was the 2nd Duke of Richmond whose marriage had been arranged in order to settle his father's gambling debts. Surprisingly, the union turned out to be a happy one, which affected the Duke's attitudes about marriage. He allowed his daughter Emily to marry for love and although both Emily and her husband had affairs, their marriage was also a fairly happy one. After the death of her husband, the first Duke of Leinster, and with 19 children to her credit, she married William Ogilvie, a commoner. Together they had another three children. It is also widely believed that her last son from the first marriage was actually Ogilvie's. Large families had advantages in terms of securing dynastic succession in an age when child mortality rates were very high. But in this case it turned out to have been deeply injurious to the finances of the House of Leinster. The first Duke was overly generous in his will to his widow and many children. The result was that the second Duke was so financially encumbered by annuities and doweries that he was left with an income of barely ₤7,000. That would have been a substantial income for most people. But for a Duke with vast estates to maintain as also political and charitable causes he was expected to support, it was wholly inadequate and the Dukedom found itself cash strapped for generations. The last of the family's lands and estates were lost in the early part of the last century. The title still exists, but the current holder does not use it and lives a quiet middle class life. (Edit: Typo)
My great great grandmother gave birth to twenty children! Fortunately, depending on how you look at it, twins ran on both sides of the family so she only had to give birth fifteen times!!!
I’m not sure you can call Charlotte England’s first “known” bi-racial Queen. Experts on this topic have questioned it. And the moors of North Africa have varying skin tones. If you could look into it and clarify the matter, I would greatly appreciate it.
One result of the Roman Empire is that we are all mixed. While it’s true that odd genes can pop up now and then after centuries, I believe that (except in cases like the slavery in the US or that of Nazi Germany) the social construct of race mainly pertains to one’s appearance.
Not really, North Africans are also white, the social construct is largely the borders we put it at (in west it continues to be the borders of historical Christendom, but the reality is that common ancestry stretches to Pakistan and includes high caste Indians (the caste system is rooted in a racial one set up by invaders a bit like in the early Muslim empire), Persians for example are much less arabised, but even the arabs are deeply interrelated, hell most jews are different due to a population bottleneck in medieval times rather than different ancestry, the massive split comes when comparing Turkic people and the like), we are very genetically different, and not acknowledging that would be a nightmare for doctors as it goes deeper than the skin and leads to different potency of disease, likelihood of illness and reactions to medication. The amount of slaves from South of the Sahara during Roman time was very limited, most slaves were greek, celt, or Germanic, also the period ended with large scale Germanic migrations. She was North African 16 generations back, which kind of makes it clear how desperate they are to link royals to this sort of nonsense, in all likelihood she was just born with a darker tone of skin, if it was from ancestry then they should probably have been looking towards possible flings with the gardener rather than ancestry so far back as to be very very minimal on the wider genetic level.
@@vorynrosethorn903 true. many spaniards are just a bit darker than mortherners because of ancient admixtures. if moors were in Spain for 700 years, they would also have lightened .
I’m glad that you have podcasts! Your voice is very calming and well modulated, and is so nice to listen to. I actually enjoy your visuals, too, because they very nicely paced. It’s nice to have choices, because there are times when I just want to really relax and lie down and listen!
And I’m here SWEATING, thinking about having just ONE next year after getting our own house, ……these ladies popping out children like skittles taste the rainbow 🌈
child bearing is actually good for you if you are healthy. and each birth gets easier. just be sure to breastfeed exclusively for as long as possible, as that is natural birth control and also very good for your body. Nursing shrinks the uterus and produces feel-good hormones. Pregnancy itself has hormones that heal and beautify your body as well. and prevent wrinkles... etc The fetus sends out healing chemistry to the mother's body. Nursing helps you lose body fat.
My uterus was screaming in terror throughout this video, having survived an extremely traumatic and life threatening c section at 26 weeks myself, I literally cannot have anymore kids cause of the damage. I would never have survived as a woman in these times Good lord
Lindsay, there are other royal/noble women who gave birth or had a staggering number of pregnancies. They were: Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Electress Palatine. She had 17 children. Two of her daughters had successful marriages, Maria Anna of Neuburg married Charles II of Spain and Eleanor Magdalena married Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. Another queen who deserves a mention is Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Spain. She gave birth to 14 children, but counting her miscarriages, she was pregnant a total of 24 times!
Also Queen Darejan of Georgia, Countess Dorothea of Stolberg-Gedern, and Archduchess Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland who had 14 children and 15 miscarriages
Princess of Carolina of Nassau-Orange had 15 children but 4 were stillborn. Countess Consort of Stolberg-Gerden Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow had 23 children but 11 survived adulthood. She is the great-great-great grandmother of Queen Victoria.
If you are going to call Queen Charlotte biracial because of an ancestor 15 generations ago, then you have to call all of her descendants, including Queen Elizabeth and her entire family biracial. Don't get me wrong, I would love it if they could prove that the royals were actually biracial, but one ancestor 15 generations ago who is not even confirmed to be black....that's a real stretch and when you report on it like you just it it diminishes your credibility.
It’s truly bizarre to hear her continuously repeat that same line from an earlier episode and then literally right after state that the ancestor was 15 generations back. Like, how can someone be biracial because of a 13x great grandparent?
@@piratesswoop725 someone picked up on this when Meghan Markle joined the Royal Family, and sensationalized it so they could sell their articles. And it worked, people keep repeating it, they even made a movie based in part on the idea...its all about selling copy and making money. Oh and monetized TH-cam videos.
I know an elderly woman who gave birth to 18 children and at home, she is now 89 years old. I also know some of her sons and daughters, but many have died.
Pregnancy and childbirth is one of my biggest fears as it is in modern age, I can't imagine having to go through with it 15 times like Eleanor where only 6 survive until adulthood... Edit: Omg I hadn't even made it to Anne's part of the video, 18 births and only 1 survivor🥴
Pregnancy and Childbirth are fine in the modern age. Most healthy women have uneventful pregnancies and recover well from birth. It's a natural but intense process. Health and attitude make everything
I am very glad that I had an opportunity to listen the history of my country from my favorite channal. Georgia still is unknown for many people so thank you that you put the story of Queen Darejan in the video.
It is amazing how much life has changed in the last century. My grandmother had 9 kids. My mom had two. So far neither my brother or I have kids. I don’t even think people realize how lucky we are to have a choice in the matter ( to some degree at least , don’t know if we ever will be in a world where everyone has that privilege).
Obviously you are much more likely to be descended from someone who had more. Also is it a choice if everyone makes the same, or just a new social norm.
Everyone has that privilege but due to ignorance, not caring, cultural norms they continue to have a ton of children. This large population growth is almost entirely limited to 3rd world countries, the Middle East (where the average woman gives birth to SIX children and most of the wealthier men have 4 wives and many concubines) and India where they just don’t care. Condoms are handed out like CANDY and they are used to make BALLOONS. I lived through this myself while volunteering in Africa and living in the Middle East. I finally gave up and came home. You can’t fix stupid. So spare me your whole ‘privilege’ tall tale.
@@mamavswild One of the rules of economics is that value is subjective, if you have a culture with a different value system they won't even have the framework to think about things in the same way as you. A highly religious society in which children are valued over material prosperity are just going to approach things differently. The west was also the richest place in the world back when women were having 7 kids on average, what we are seeing isn't advancement (indeed the west is only continuing due to immigration at this point) but the results of a new set of values taking hold and the sexual revolution facilitating them. Also look up the fertility rate of the middle east, other than Afghanistan it is now below replacement.
@@vorynrosethorn903 Oh we sat and TAUGHT THEM. They absolutely understood what the condoms did. They also were having children they couldn’t take care of. One woman said to me and I kid you not, ‘that is why we have so many kids. Most die and the strong ones will live!’ Fk that ‘culture!’
I had my first baby at 19 and the doctor said I was lucky she was born small, despite still getting stuck and the doctor having to reposition her. I can’t imagine having a baby any younger than that, much less 13… 😮
Nothing ventured nothing gained, and what more to gain than new life. Yep, there was a reason it was heavily stigmatized by the church and marriages between young people tended to come with a contract agreeing they wouldn't cohabit until 18 or so, really most people started between 16 and 22. It is better for future births and everything else if you start in your early twenties at least, the longer it is left the more complications are likely, but one in the twenties gets the body used to it and lowers the chance of problems in your 30's. Those it's really the least of our worries as average age of childbirth going up over thirty historically trends with societal collapse, civil wars and revolution.
My grandmother had 9 living children and two miscarriages, she had 7 siblings and my grandfather (her husband) had 7 sisters and 2 brothers for a total of 10. His father had 11 and the generation before that was 12. Thats as far back as we have gone, but my mothers siblings used to joke about which sibling would have 8 children, none of them did.
My friend was married in 2010. She told me that since the first year of her marriage life, she never has the chance to have period. She's always pregnant. She told me this in 2021. I didn't ask how many children she has.
My maternal great grandmother had 11 boys. Most of them ended up alcoholics and organized crime here in Oklahoma. Except for my grandpa who became an insurance salesman and didn't drink a drop of liquor may he R.I.P. Love you papa
I have noted that mine in Oklahoma in that same time frame had so many divorces, and children by so many different women. My direct line did not, but the collaterals, wow!. I have wondered if it was from the uprooting from a settled time of their life to an area that was wild and unsettled and they were just at the age they could not be told what to do and they were adults and thrust out into the world where there were no guidelines as being good and bad or if it was the influence of WWI and the depression before WWI and then after WWI the Influenza epidemic, where life seemed hopeless and they thought there was nothing to live for so "do what they wanted to who what they wanted". I see this in a generation of my family of those who came to Oklahoma in the land rushes. As all my family came thru at this time to Oklahoma, I do not know if others in other states were influenced by the same things in life without the moving to Oklahoma, but I know there was a lot of movement Westward to Oregon, Washington, and California and Hawaii.
@@carolynatkinson5456 Holy Crap WE COULD BE RELATED!!!! (I'm being sincere, not sarcastic) Each of my great uncles had several kids theres...At least 70 of us altogether! Oklahoma wasn't as big as it is now there's totally a chance we are distant relatives!! Oh! How'd your family do in the Land Run??? Did they get a good piece of land? Or were they one of the Sooners who snuck out the night before the Land Run officially started to search for good plots and areas and planted their stick (I forget what the officially name for the wooden sticks with the numbered flags on them that they stuck in the ground that it was claimed lol) My ancestors were Sooners. More Land taken from the Indian Tribes after being death marched to there and on an unrelated note, The land they did finally get to keep, the Native Americans, Turns out was filled with OIL turning them all into billionaires!!!!! If that's not poetic justice I don't know what is!!! Well, the ones that weren't murdered and their land stolen which is what Martin Scorsece's next movie Killers of the Flower Moon is about...but I'm guessing you already know all this but wrapping up, So were they big fat land thieves like my ancestors or did they play fair and get a good piece of land in the Land Run?
@@mediocremaiden8883 They were Sooners, and were caught and arrested and put in jail in Arkansas City, KS, it is in the newspaper there, but they did not get good land. My gg grandfather had to fight another person for what he got, and lost it all in a Sheriff sale before he died abt 1909. His children were able to claim land, and some did well, and some did not. NONE got land that had oil on it. My g grandparents lost their farm in the depression. I do not know all the ins and outs of it, but grandma said he did not have a good head for business. He and my g grandmother ran the Poor farm for Payne Co until they moved in with my grandparents in OKC. My g aunt and her husband bought them a small house to live in north of my grandparents. I was 3 or so when my g grandfather died, but I remember being on the bed and playing with him. He died of stomach cancer. My g grandmother died when I was about 14. I have her wedding ring. They were married in 1899. Ring is not worth much in money but worth so much to me because it was hers.
@@carolynatkinson5456 Wow! Yeah...Yeah things were good until the Depression...but weren't they always? I'm not sure what happened to the land, lost, gambled away, drank away, who knows...The exact line of all of us...The youngest of the brothers died, that was my grandfather in 2016. However, I have some...one...half uncle that he had with his 'favorite wife' who got everything. Except for the income from the 2 books he wrote..That were absolutely horrible almost gibberish books when I was younger I thought perhaps it was just all so philosophical and above my head but no its...It's Gibberish. Bless His Heart..I did get a love of generosity, charity (it was all about feeding the poor and taking care of the poor having grown up in Depression era Oklahoma) He was a huge Democrat. He was the Biggest "Blue-est" man in the "Red" of States so we are all Democrats...but we love this Red State..ya know? I'm glad that he passed in early 2016 when he thought we were about to have our first Woman President because everything that happened after would have just killed him again. I'm not turning anything into a political thing I'm just saying that's who he was *shrugs* That's wonderful you have that ring. Beautiful piece of the past that it sounds like many generations of strong women held and wore, too.
What heartbreak! Stillborn is bad enough, but losing numerous children to Small Pox is unimaginable. Being rich and powerful was not enough to save these families.
Actually, two daughters of Anna Jagiellonica married the king of Poland Sigismund II Augustus - Elizabeth and Catherine were both married to him, Catherine after her sister died.
IMO, Queen Charlotte and Queen Victoria were similar in their views of pregnancy. Although QC was much more loving towards her offspring than QV, both wanted to hold off marriages for the younger children, wanting them to remain by their sides.
The most that I knoe of in my family was my paternal great grandmother, who had 14 kids, mostly boys. My favorite part is that most of the boys were over 6 feet tall. Both my grandmother and I are below 5'6".
Imagine being considered biracial because of the color of one ancestor over 400 years before you were born? I think it’s so unimportant to keep track of such an ethereal thing at that point.
like other commenters, i also wish you’d stop referring to queen charlotte as biracial. if having one ancestor 13 generations back that might have been black gives someone the title of biracial, then we should call most humans biracial. it does nothing to pretend like she was black
My grandmother is the 5th of 10 and my great grandmother surprisingly didn’t loose any children. The 4th oldest died later in life. My great uncle had so many near death experiences yet was killed in a car crash. They lived on a farm so they had lots of _willing_ participants to work the farm.
I am one of 14 children and I gave birth to 12 children and only 6 survived. The babies I lost died at birth within a matter of hours or days. Longest one my first son Charles living 2 1/2 days. God Bless my babies in heaven. I know I will see them some day.
My maternal great-grandmother had 20 children, 13 survived. She was very petitte, I don't know how she managed, but she did have a long life, passed away at 98 years of age in 1978.
13 generations ago isn't biracial, or I would be too, since my African ancestors date to just before the US Civil War, that is, some of my 4th and 5th (and earlier) ancestors only 6-8 generations ago. And I have been doing my families genealogy since 2005. She just has confirmed African Ancestry, but isn't biracial, that is BarakObama. On census records people who were only 1/8th African were listed as octoroons, not biracial.
I just found out about Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt and immediately thought of this video. She had 23 children, 14 of whom lived to adulthood, 3 died in infancy, and 6 miscarriage/stillbirths. She died at 74 years old and her children include a Holy Roman Empress, 2 Electors Palestine, the Queens of Portugal and Spain, the Duchess of Parma, and a Princess of Poland.
My mother had 14 children I'm Number 13 out of 14 and my grandmother had 23 children and I remember one day asking her my God Grandma how the heck did you take care of all of these kids and she smiled and said.. "I didn't I took care of the first two after that they took care of their siblings"... my grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian...
I am related to the French king, apparently the King was getting down with a peasant whose child ended up in Spain who then ended up in Mexico. I assumed the Spanish blood and French blood was from a really long time ago but my Spanish and French blood is from my great grandma who left Spain in 1880 and moved to Mexico and married a native Mexican. So I’m literally half native, 25 percent Spanish and 25 percent French 🤯 it’s really interesting.
If your most recent ancestor with French, Spanish and native blood was your great grandparents that makes you 12.5% native, 6.25% Spanish and french. Not half or 25% unless one of your parents is from those places
My grandfather from my mother side had 6 brothers and one sister. Oldest was born in 1924 and youngest 1942 few months after my great grandfather had died in war. And sadly the girl died as one day old
This video makes me so gratefull that I have the right to decide to not have any kids, never mind 23!
Ditto!😌
That’s quickly slipping away as we speak js
I hate children
Not if you’re in America!!!!🤬
Yes birth control is a great thing if you don’t want any or a lot.
Charlotte making sure her daughters won’t have to go through the burden of being “bred” is truly remarkable considering so many people would wed their children for socio/eco gain
Yeah. Queen Charlotte is a very sweet and progressive mother. I might not necessarily agree with her methods, but she was certainly ahead of her time. I wish more mothers then and now would encourage their daughters their worth isn't just based on beauty and fertility. ❤️
The only issue is that she also barred her daughters from marrying the men they loved, even if it wasn’t a politically advantageous marriage, and was a genuine love-match with a lower ranking man.
While I understand Charlotte didn’t want them to spit out 15 children like herself, I don’t understand why she wouldn’t want them to be happy with a person who loved them for THEM not for the political gain they could grant them
@@laurakastrup yes agreed! I do know that the mentality was very different back then on marrying outside of your class, so that is probably what lead her to prevent that as well. If her daughters weren’t going to be married to upper class men than they certainly weren’t gonna be married to lower class men. I do still think she had the right idea but executed it too strictly but for her time it was quite progressive.
Right?? She really must have been traumatized and i don’t blame her!
Must have been awful for the daughters, restricted from the ability to become mothers by a mother blessed with many loving children.
It sure was progressive, but was it good. We are the most progressive ever now, and we've never been more lonely and depressed.
Stating my genealogical searches again, my paternal great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth, gave birth to 17 children, including consecutive sets of twins. 13 survived to adulthood. How she managed to survive the pregnancies and live to be 74 is quite amazing.
Honestly if you live past the first 8 children you’re probably made of iron stuff. At that point it’s pretty clear childbirth ain’t gonna kill you. Death probably had to take Elizabeth in her sleep cause otherwise she would have beat his ass
Life finds a way
What was the age gap between 1st to the last?
@@D38401 She was 21 with her first, and 48 with the last.
My grandmother was the 13th of 14 children, all of whom survived to adulthood. (Good Irish Catholics, so no birth control etc.) Her brother Francis was killed in the Great War, but the others all lived fairly normal lives. She was the last to pass, living into her 80s.
It breaks my heart what Anne went through one is unbelievably cruel but to lose 17 babies! Then your 11 year old child to die. I can’t even begin to imagine how she felt
I have pcos & have wanted to be a mom ever since I was a kid so I can empathize with Anne
@@liz2saintvideos Well u can still become a mom. Only it won't be easy but u will get the best deal! Sometimes baby's come from your belly, and sometimes from the hearth.
As a mother who gave birth too 6 healthy kids. But one came from my I hearts.. I can tell u: It beats every pregnancy!!! Number 7 we adopted, born during a war what killed the baby's familie. I can't explain the kind of love you get, it is very special!
My dad has that same blood disease, antiphospholipid syndrome and I’m infertile.
I feel lucky that, for one, my dad is able to live a fairly normal life with a normal life span despite his illness, and that medical treatments have advanced so that a lot of us with infertility are able to have at least one child.
🌸 same and in those days there was no mental therapy of any kind, you had to suck it up and continue with life as best as you can with head held high. These women, not just on video, but from the past eras are pure inspirational and very strong both physically and mentally
@@liz2saintvideos Same, I pray someday we will have a chance to be mothers.
The woman who committed herself to a nunnery after 14 full term pregnancies: 😳 Completely understandable. ❤M
I suppose they didn't really have mental heath facilities in those days, so next best thing ...
Nunnery- no men allowed, please do not touch me I have already had 14 babies!!
Some of the babies she lost were born or stillborn prematurely
Are you talking about Mumtaz Mahal?
@@srijeetasikder2678 I am talking about Queen Anne
Queen Charlotte sounds so cool... Allowing her daughters to have the life she never could, while also just being an amazing and selfless mother at that time...She was before her time 😢
You're absolutely right. Queen Charlotte is a very sweet and progressive mother. I might not necessarily agree with her methods, but she was certainly ahead of her time. I wish more mothers then and now would encourage their daughters their worth isn't just based on beauty and fertility. ❤️
she refused to let them marry, even when they fell in love? You admire that? Just so she could have companionship?
@@Chuck0856prove that they fell in love? Royal marriages were mainly political.
Her daughters wanted to marry but charlotte didn't want to be lonely so she kept them single against their will.
If you listen carefully; you can hear Henry VIII sobbing over all these legitimate sons that weren’t his 😂
I consider it among the greatest karmic triumphs in history that his daughter was the one to become one of the most effective monarchs in history.
@@alietheartist734 SAME!!! 😁
@@alietheartist734 Catherine Parr was a womans rights advocate long before the word existed, as she convinced Hernry to also have his daughters considered eligable heirs.
@@schneeroseful Parr was extremely underrated IMO. Like Katherine Howard, she was already in love with someone else when she married King Henry but was smart enough to wait for him to die before going back to her lover.
@@alietheartist734 Not only did all of King Henry's male children die young, neither of his daughters gave him any grandchildren to continue his line. Both Mary and Elizabeth even neglected to maintain Henry's grave after he died.
why did the one about queen anne get me so much? the thought of losing ALL of your children would be absolutely DEVASTATING
😢😢
yeah...my mom lost her 3rd child and grieved for weeks, so ALL OF YOUR KIDS!? unbelievable.
Especially if you have 17?? Losing a single child is unbearable for many people, I cannot fathom having that many children and not a single one surviving you 💔
How strong these women were physically and especially emotionally for dealing with so much loss but still carrying on. They had no choice but, they carried on with grace
They sure did. And I greatly admire them for it. Any lady who is able to carry on despite losing a child or multiple children has my respect and admiration. ❤️
because of church i think and god will
The record for most children born to one woman in my family tree is held by my fourth great grandmother on my Dad’s side, who gave birth to 26 children (including two sets of twins), all but three of whom lived to adulthood. I also feel very fortunate to have the option to have as many or as few children as I want.
Was your great grandmother's name marilouise?
I would NEVER let a man do that to me .
@@michellejackson1202 neither would I. I guess the woman was extremely fertile.
@@ItsLunaRegina you can’t leave him?
@@ItsLunaRegina I would definitely at least sit him down and talk to him, if you truly don't want to leave him. Sabotaging birth control is pretty messed up
Wow, poor Anne. It's a wonder she didn't go mad from losing all her children so tragically. 😥
You must realize the bond between these queens and their children is not like modern day parents. Their children were brought up by wet nurses, governesses, tutors and probably saw their parents only once in a while. Kings and Queens were far too occupied with matters of state and the court to see their children every day.
I wouldn't have blamed Queen Anne if she did go mad from losing all her children sadly. I certainly would have. (╥﹏╥)
She did, a little bit, some say...
She had a lot of bunny rabbits as a replacement.
My grandmother had 12 children! All survived to adulthood. And she is alive as well. I have over 50 first cousins. It’s always a party when we are all together!
Woah!! Family get togethers must be awesome!!
LOL my entire family is comprised of 14 people! Yes, grandparents and a great-grandmother included!
from the side of both my parents I have 10 cousins, and I hate when they come, I can't imagine being in your place 😬🤯
Exact same with my family lol. Always discovering new family members or awaiting the birth of a new baby
soooo nice
I don't think Queen Charlotte would be considered "biracial" since her latest-known black ancestor was 13 generations back.
I believe is more 15 generations back. 🐝
Not that it’s right but I think the reason they now call her biracial is because she had biracial characteristics… she’s never been called that until recently and I think the only reason the royal family finally “admitted it” was the pressure to do so.. people thought they were trying to hide the fact she was half black but in reality her African ancestors were so far back she’s not really biracial
My african DNA goes back 12 generations. No way could I call myself biracial.
kind of reminds me of the irish girl saying she was 0,1 jamaican, and her having the darkest fake-tan ever to prove her point. LoL
also, a lot of the "moors" were not hardly dark at all. Especially those who had been in spain for several hundred years.
Could we please have a video on Queen Keran and her children? I can’t imagine having so many children and most of them dying from murder!
Yes I agree! I think she would be fascinating to learn about. Seems there was a bunch of intrigue. Also why did she become a nun ? Has her husband passed away or was that the normal thing to go to a convent. I thought that’s where many were sent as punishment.
Absolutely!! Can't imagine how terrible it would have been for them ..
@@NanaD-ve9tt it was normal in the past that widows go to a nunnery. It was considered something a ‘decent’ woman would do, rather than remarry.
@@Lumosnight 😊 Thank you!
@@NanaD-ve9tt It would be funny if she became a nun while her husband was still alive (which happened, but rarely). Like "OK, my work here is REALLY done ... peace out!"
My mother in law has 13 children (7 still at home) and they all love each other so much, but in menopause she is struggling to find her identity. Children can be a blessing if you're financially stable, but the toll on the mothers mental and physical health is never discussed enough. Humans are just not built for that.
Like parenthood in general- some are cut out for it, some aren't. My grandfather was one of thirteen and his mother seems to have been OK with it. I suppose having most of the family living nearby helped.
I went through menopause when I was in my 30's. It's misery but it doesn't last forever. I'm actually enjoying post menopausal life. Hang in there. Things will get better.🌹🍃
Empty nesting is common no matter how many children you have. My SIL had 2, both are grown and moved out, neither are having kids. They were raised well and are great people. She never developed herself past being a mother. That was her whole identity. Now that her kids don’t need her, she doesn’t know who she is. She has latched onto my kids a long time ago to fill the void.
I know a lot of younger women who only identify themselves as a mom. They live everyday for their kids, and never a day for themselves. They are going to have a rude awakening when the kids get older.
There are other ways to enjoy motherhood when your kids are adults. It's ok for your identity to be tied to being a mom, as long as you can enjoy their adulthood and independence.
I agree. We need to talk about the well-being of mothers more often, especially after they give birth. Yes, the baby will be the center of attention once they arrive, but we can't forget about the mother and we need to remind her that she is still important, arguably as much as the baby.
My great grandmother was the oldest of 16 children. Needless to say, after helping to raise so many siblings, she only had one child (my paternal grandfather) and not until age 35 (old for 1923). Her family lived on a farm in Texas. They had to have a lot of kids to work the farm. Lol
Same with my great grandmother. My grandmother was one of the oldest and said all she ever remembers doing is cooking and doing dishes. Then getting ready to do it all over again. She only had four children which is small for a Mormon family lol
And my kids complain that 4 is too many. 🙄
That was the same with my great-grandfathers family. He was #10 of 13 and his wife was one of 11. Out of his siblings, 1 died as an infant, one died as a child and one died at 28 I suspect either from illness or childbirth. He and the rest outlived their parents and he outlived all of them.
Same with my grandmother. She was one of 14 children, they all lived in the country and had to work the fields. Her and my grandfather had two children, in their thirties.
Both of my grandmothers came from large Texan farm families. One had only my mother, my father’s birth mother died at 17, and my Mamaw became his mother when he was 5. She had one other son 10 years after that and a stillborn daughter. I remember stories of how hard life was for my grandmothers and their female family members. I don’t recall any of my great aunts having more than 2-3 children.
EDIT: Dear Fellow Commentators, PLEASE STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OR ANYONE ELSE THAT QUEEN CHARLOTTE WAS "BI-RACIAL". SHE WAS NOT. And it was never "CONFIRMED" as Lindsay states in this video. That was false information and not historically accurate by any means. I would appreciate it she would edit the video and previous videos where she refers to Queen Charlotte as such. Especially if this channel’s purpose is to make history accessible and enjoyable. I’d certainly like to know who CONFIRMED Queen Charlotte’s bi-racial identity. Always cite your sources. Make sure they are credible.
Labeling Queen Charlotte as "bi-racial" implies that one of her parents was fully of African descent. Instead, it would be more accurate to say that she was of alleged African descent, as both of her parents families have roots in Europe for several generations. Margarida de Castro e Souza was herself a descent from a 6 times removed speculated (albeit unproven) Moorish woman. Note that "moorish" isn’t necessarily Black. This supposed ancestry has been contradicted by genealogists, who trace Margarita's descent to Afonso III of Portugal and a mistress of his called Madragana Afonso. As an African American and genealogy nerd, I find Queen Charlotte’s possible African ancestry interesting, but it does us all a disservice to portray inaccuracies.
I know she recycles dialogue if videos overlap subjects, but I wish she'd removed the dialogue claiming Queen Charlotte as biracial
@@ficfan3484 She does great work, and as a historian, I know it isn’t easy. Hopefully she sees these comments and makes the proper corrects for the sake of accuracy.
Thank you so much!!!
@Destiny Everyone has a wide ethnic inheritance. However, to say that a person is bi-racial, implies that their parents are of 2 different races. I do not like to use the term race, as I believe humankind is one race of many ethnicities. But for clarity based on the modern definition of race, the claim of Queen Charlotte being bi-racial is inaccurate.
@@bethaniw7640 you’re welcome.
I spent 40 consecutive months pregnant and breastfeeding in my mid 20's. Two children were enough for me and it was a real pleasure to get my body back. I can't imagine having one pregnancy after another for 20 or more years.
Speaking of large families, the Bonapartes would be an interesting family to profile next. Napoleon's many siblings are all too often written off as hangers-on to their celebrity brother's coattails but they had some truly fascinating lives in their own right. Heck even his parents are rather interesting people in the context of Corsica's history.
Napoleon was my 8th great uncle on my mom's side. I've looked up his history and find it fascinating. Maybe you could do a who video on him. Thank you.
@@lizheuserbevan6564
I wonder if she’d address the strange rumours surrounding Napoleon & Pauline...
My grandmother gave birth to 16 children with her last one being a stillborn. The family was very Catholic. My dad is #9. She had a mental breakdown when she had 5 under 5 years old. She begged her priest to let her use birth control - he said no! So she went on to have 10 more. Lived until she was 84. Good woman. A strong woman really. Ahhh, but if only her religion didn't dictate her reproductive choice! ❤M
My nan was like this. She had 5 kids in 5 years. When she went into the mental health unit, my grandfather couldn't look after them until my grandmother came back (typical 1960s man😩) The two youngest went into foster care and the 3 eldest (including my mother) went into a children's home. My uncle ended up with behavioural problems. My nan did have an abortion, but it was very hush hush with her borrowing money from my great aunt.
Glad I didn't live back then... 7 are enough... And my kids are 2 years apart or more ranging in age from almost 25 to almost 11... I'm DONE!!!!
Poor woman...I wonder how many of those 84 years she was truly happy. Or snuck off to cry in the bathroom with the sink running like me.... Even facturing in post partum depression.
@@mediocremaiden8883 Right?! She was very much in love with my grandfather, and she told all of her kids how much she loved them but man, life didn't have to be so hard for her as it was. My grandfather went to work every day while she stayed home. Just 1 income for 17 people! It's difficult to fathom really. She attributed everything to God in the end. That's where she derived her power from.
Thank goodness she survived to raise all of them.
The females in my family are prone to fraternal twins (multiple egg releases during ovation). My grandmother was one of 18 children, with several sets of twins. My aunt, in the late 70s, lied her way into a hysterectomy after her 3rd set.
There are 11 sets of fraternal twins among my cousins and I on that side.
Don't blame her think I would have lied sooner.
Why would she lie her way into a hysterectomy. She could have just gotten her tubes tied, or a vasectomy for the husband. A hysterectomy is kinda overkill and physically traumatic when an option that is just as effective is available.
Your aunt was still able to conceive into her late 70s? Isn't that like a world record
@@matteusconnollius1203 1970, not her 70s.
@@hardtogetnamehere I had to beg my doctor for a tubal ligation after having my children. He said I was too young and a lot of doctor's cite this reason for refusing to perform a tubal; . The only reason why he did it was because I was married for over ten years at the time. This was in 2006, so I can't imagine what the school of thought was in the '70s. My husband could've gotten a vasectomy, but that wasn't going to stop me from getting a tubal ligation. I was done with having children and was leaving nothing to chance.
I think that my uterus just exited my body and ran away in terror.
My uterus just walked out of my pelvis
In the “science” of the time, I believe that would be hysteria.
I think it's so interesting to mention that they had staff behind them such as wet nurses to ensure they could care for all of those kids.
Whereas my great grandma had 17 living children and she was responsible for raising them all. Makes me wonder how on earth our ancestors who did not have the staff managed
Parents who couldn’t afford nannies simply made the elder children raise the younger ones. You can see it in any fundie family today. It’s called the ‘buddy system’ in those circles but the rest of us just call it parentification
@@emilybarclay8831 I never put the fundie thing together with my ancestors! Makes sense rather than IBLP it's just Catholicism 😄
@@NightcrawlerofR to be fair you don’t need to be a fundie to have had a massive family back then. You just need to be hot for your husband, a fertile match and not have access to birth control lol
Hot for him, no. Plenty women just laid there or endured his desires and ended up pregnant. It was miserable for them.
The older kids help with the younger ones.
in the part where you talked about Queen Anne of England, I love that you also were thoughtful enough to talk about what medication could have saved her babies. In the back of my head, I've always wondered why she lost/miscarried so many kiddos.
Strong women. Especially with how dangerous pregnancy and delivery during their time.
I needed c-sections to have my children. And I'm so happy I wasn't alive back then cause I would have died during child birth!
I also would have died during childbirth.
My pelvic outlet is abnormally narrow, and my baby had "football player" shoulders. Thank goodness my OB knew beforehand; scheduled Caesarian.
I am also grateful he didn't tell me all the ***details*** of how we both would have died until I asked ... post birth.
@@tangenty6987 yup. I have a heart shaped uterus with a septum that separates it into 2 chambers. Once my first was born I was informed afterwards I would have been one of those women that died in a field. Very thankful for the medical advances we have now!
@@No-sv6mu But you do realize that you could be spreading your bad genes to your daughters... Genes that resulted in your misshapen uterus. I think it used to be a natural selection to weed out women bad genes before modern medicine figured out how to save these women. I also know a lady who knows her uterus is irregularly shaped and she chose not to have children to avoid both trouble giving birth and a risk spreading bad genes to future generation
@@EvgeniyaJZ nope it wasnt caused by genetics. Just a error when I was forming in my mom. Similar to how a child might be born with a cleft palate. Things just didnt merge together the right way as I was developing.
C-sections are very old, it’s literally called that because of Julius Caesar
I love your videos but I wish you’d stop referring to Queen Charlotte as “Britain’s first biracial Queen”. Someone who has to go back 13 generations for a confirmed black ancestor cannot claim blackness in any way
Thank you!
This. If she’s biracial then so is pretty much every other person in Europe
Your forgetting one important detail, these royals were inbred severally.
So really 13 generations while a bit far back doesn't mean much when everyone in the family kept marrying first couisins.
He's probably her grandfather a dozen times over at that point👀
Agreed
I completely agree, she was white with moor ancestry. Not biracial in any regard.
My great-great-grandmother gave birth to 24 children. My great-grandmother being the second youngest.
Her younger sister got pregnant at 16 and was shiped to Denmark and they never saw each other again.
As a result of this, my great-grandmother was scared of pregnancy and birth. Giving birth to my grandmother at 33 and never having anymore children.
I feel for the Queens who lost their babies and children. My heart goes out to them. Losing a child is the most painful and heart breaking.
My great great grandma had 21 children, 2 died. She lived till 92. The family was poor, no wet nurses or staff here to help. I think as in all large families the older kids help with the younger ones. My neighbours had 11 children and I noticed how much the older ones had to do .
Without even watching the video, I can tell that many people will be saddened by Queen Anne's story. She lost ALL of her children before they became teenagers and they ALL died before her. ALL 17. No wonder she was severely depressed...
Can't describe my delighted surprise that you started with Mumtaz Mahal. For some reason, I thought you were only going to talk about European queens. So happy to hear Indian history on this, one of my favorite channels.
I loved her story
I mean it's sad but the love he had for her
Maria Therese: I am going to name ALL of my daughters after myself…. Except this one, she’s Johanna.
Imagine being shipped off like a package as a child for a marriage where you and your husband just hate each other all the time but you still have to sleep with him as much as it takes to even get pregnant 17 times. Even if that was „normal“ back then, UGH is all i can say
Some of those queens were barely out of childhood when they started having their own children. Different times but oh my goodness.😞
Yep. 😎Richard II of England married for his second wife, Isabella of Valois. 😎He was 29, she was 6! 😝Blech!😝
@@ChibiProwl he never consummated it thankfully
For very young wives, they might be sent to live with their husbands, but there would generally be an understanding that a sexual relationship wouldn't start until, say, a year after their first period (and puberty generally occurred later than it does today, which would generally place the girls in their mid-teens).
Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother to King Henry VII, had him at age 13 after a challenging labour, and never had any other children. Even back then, it was said that she had simply been too young to have a child, and her body suffered permanent damage as a result.
@@simrenbajaj6000 Thank God, but still….the age difference.😝
The church was very against it but obviously the politics of nobles was involved. Older men with very young brides was thankful usually related to politics (e.g. she was more legitimate in his title than him and being married meant she couldn't just be kidnapped and his rivals would have to kill him), though King John was one of those exceptions (much to everyone's disgust).
In the other classes the church was successful in their campaigning and marriages between the young typically came with a contract agreeing that they wouldn't cohabiting until about 18-20, within the average of 16-22 for people to marry. Over time they also used the fact of the danger of infertility to stop even nobles from doing it, as the danger of a succession dispute was always paramount.
Brutal times for the ladies back then . My own grandma had 12 children!!! My great great grandfather was married twice and had 18 total children they all worked the farm . The needs of a wife then are scary to me it’s just a lot to put a body through.
Because breastfeeding generally delays the return of a woman's period after giving birth, the use of wetnurses in these noble families also worked to increase the number of pregnancies. In the average peasant family, the pregnancies would have been naturally spaced further apart (although there are of course exceptions with some women having no trouble conceiving while they are still breastfeeding).
Old wives tale.
@@Chuck0856 no it is not! it is a proven fact. but the mother must only breastfeed and not give any bottles and , nurse a lot. not be skinny. etc.
interesting! i’m only 14 months younger than my sister, so my mum got pregnant again really quickly after she was born 😂
My dad is one of 12( technically 13 but one was a miscarriage). My Grandma and grandpa kept all of them feed and healthy despite raising them in poverty. No royal servants and nursemaids to help.
I once told my mom I wanted 10. You know like an idiot.
That last line had me cackling. 😂
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You were probably too young to understand, like I was as a child. I always dreamed of having a happy marriage and lots of children. I still have those dreams, but now I know better than just start a family all willy-nilly. It takes time, planning, and a good nest egg for security. The most important thing is to have a soulmate to marry and/or have children with. ❤️
More the merrier.
Also there is never a prefect time, as this story shows you must deal with hardship if you want blessings. Most childlessness today if of those who wanted children but waited too long, everyone also knows many women who dearly wanted more children but were lucky enough to conceive those they did in their late 30's.
you could swing it. today there's all kind s o f help. i woul d have if i could have. but i di d have 6 and wish i had more.
My maternal grandmother has 22 siblings. There are 8 left in there 80s and 90s. It amazes me how this was normal back then!
I've absolutely no idea how these women used to manage raising all those kids without an army of nannies and home servants. And giving births without pain relief.
The TFR in 1930s US dropped to 2.1 children per woman replacement rate. Having 22 siblings was as abnormal in the 1930s as now. Remember cheaper by the the dozen came out only soon after they obviously were not the norm.
your family today must be huge 😮😮
My grandmother had 17 children which included 3 sets of twins (2 Girls, 2 Boy and then my mom and her twin brother). My mother had 9 children (8 boys and then me). My brothers have no less than 5 kids each. Including one brother who had 2 sets of twins back to back.
17? omg 😳 congrats to ur mother 👏👏
@@bridgetmidget3592 I met a lady who had two sets of big strapping boy identical twins 18 months apart, and she was pregnant with her third set of identical twin boys. She said they were DONE after that set. Her dr said it was in the billions of chances to have three sets of identicals, and she went to have 6 kids under 4. They were really nice looking kids, and big and healthy. She was soo tiny.
Wow, I love big families! That's so amazing but for sure hard work as well. Everybody has to play a part in the household and upbringing so that it works out well. '
I once had visited a family with 14 kids, 2 of them already moved out. They had a room for the girls and a room for the boys. 6 of them had been homeschooled at that time, the older ones worked during daytime while doing college online at night. They had a weekly plan for the household which includes every child from age 6 and upwards doing their part of cleaning and laundry. There were strict rules which includes only running and playing loudly (e.g. also screaming) in the backyard. In the house they were only allowed to play quietly and without running. During 2-4pm was quiet time and their mum could rest a little bit while the kids could do everything but in silence. I really really liked that concept and it worked very well!
must be a blessing to have a big family. so many have nobody to turn to for anything ! no family!and no good times like at holidays. LIFE GETS REAL COLD without a good sized family of people who care about each other. Life gets real hard all alone , especially as people get older.
@@carolynatkinson5456wow, i feel like that should be a world record!
My great x2 grandmother had 16 children, with my great grandmother being the youngest. Despite the several pregnancies and constant stress from all of those children, she's remembered as a very kinda woman despite the several pains in her neck.
My grandmother (father’s mom) was the youngest of 8. 1 son and 7 girls. She in turn only had 1 son because having my dad almost killed her and this was in 1937
My grand mother died in 2003 aged 90. She had 22 children and 14 survived. I am the same as most people how did they cope and in small houses 🏘 xx.
Just the image of this royal couple sitting in silence holding hands and grieving the loss of their babies hurts my heart… :(
It was a time in which they didnt even wash their hands.
The Dr that later insisted you should wash between a delivery & a cadaver was beaten to death
My mom is from a family of 13. The most interesting thing is, my grandmother had most her kids in a certain month or weeks off. We know what was happening up in the mountains during the holidays! Lol
when its rains.....lol
My Great Grandma Betty has 15 children (born between 1955 & 1975). She & My Great Grandpa Ralph have been married for almost 70 years. My Grandma Donna is there oldest child (she has many stories from what it was like to grow up the oldest of 15). They where Irish Catholic and most still live in Chicago. To say that the family gatherings are chaotic is an understatement.
Would you say to your knowledge if your grandmother seems to know all of her siblings well? I feel like with that many siblings you might be like to not know some very well
@@matteusconnollius1203 baloney. they know them well enough. And no doubt there's always someone there for them when one is in need. Unlike those without hardly any family.
My great grandma had twins then took her 9 years to have a live birth. Sadly, she bled out and died. This was 1939.
As a female history major in college, constantly surrounded by World War II and Roman History Guys™ who try to mansplain everything to me, you have no idea how grateful I am to have found your channel. Thank you for providing such interesting videos, and for creating a judgement free environment that welcomes more of us ladies in history!!!
I was a history major and now a history teacher by profession. I never had men in my classes that acted like that. I graduated in 2006.
Why are you a history major if you are that sensitive?
@@MJ13ish why are you overreacting to such a harmless comment?
@@brumbrum987654321 People like that think if you are a woman studying something beyond grade 12, that's also odd and against nature. They'll assume they'll put "over emotion/sensitivity" into everything because that's "wut the wimmiz do". Furthermore, they think if you are not a cold, devoid, calculating machine, and have any opinion out of "bee-boop-beep-muhlogicz", you have no right to further education, (hint-hint), or they will question your legitimacy.
It is simply just their way.
MaNsPlaIiN
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Just a correction in the Mumtaz mahal segment- Mughal empire consisted of India (including Kashmir) Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Always enjoy these historical videos ☺️ maybe we could see some more Indian history videos - the Marathas, Mughals for starters have a lot of interesting historical drama😅
After the Taj Mahal story, the rest seemed lame…makes me wonder how fabulous Indian history could be CRAZY INTERESTING! 😳
Mughal empire could make a reality series.They were powerful but dysfunctional.🤔
@@deloreswilson1798 ya after(by the time of) Aurangzeb it just all went downhill 😂
My great grandma literally was a single mother of 12. My mom's dad's mom, this was during Jim Crow segregation in the 50s and 60s in Virginia.
And about 3 years after she died, my mom named me after her.
RIP, Grandma Gracie
Single mother of 12! Good lord, she was a strong lady indeed.🙌 May she Rest in Peace🙏
@@thatrenaissancelady
The father of her children wanted to marry her, but his parents married him off to another woman because they hated her
So she was alone raising 12 kids and she made sure all of them went through school and got their education made something of themselves.
Yikes. My dad was one of 10, and one of my aunts had 15. According to family history my great aunt had 24 or 25 children, but only the ones which lived long enough to be christened (16) are recorded. She apparently had 3 sets of triplets and 4 sets of twins, but there’s only christening records for one set of triplets, plus it’s possible that some of the christening records for twins were triplets where one died at birth.
My grandmother birthed 16 children. 15 survived to adulthood and 12 are still with us. She was truly the strongest woman I’ve ever known!
Having so many pregnancies very often took a toll on women, queen's no different. Being a queen consort with so many pregnancies us one thing but being a queen regnant like Maria Theresa and being almost all the time pregnant, that's though. I didn't expect any polish dynasties related historical characters but Anna Jagielonica is part of dynasty that ruled Poland, Hungary and Bohemia, and two of her daughters married another Jagiellonian Sigismundus II Augustus.
Wow, I had no idea that kingdom of Armenia has so many bloody chapters in terms of deposed kings
My maternal grandmother had 13 kids, one died as a baby(girl), one was killed in one assault(he had 2 small kids, 2y/o and 2 months), the rest are still alive, she died of heart problems(around the same time as her son), we were 53 grandkids( 1 died as a kid falling from a three 40 years ago), my mom was #10 and she was the first one to be born in a hospital
My great-grandmother gave birth to 16 children with giving birth to her first child at merely 15. I am 21 right now and by 21 she already had 3 kids and was pregnant with her 4th. It's so wild to think and compare the stark differences between our times and how she had practically no autonomy over her body. Poor medical facilities and lack of medical knowledge didn't make things better, every pregnancy could either end well with a healthy child or death. Thank you Lindsay for the fascinating video!
By my age (37), my grandmother had been working since she was 13- one marriage behind her, was on to her second- & had had 6 pregnancies/ births- & had moved from the town of her birth, to a different part of the state for her second husband’s* work... It still blows my mind what they managed.
*actually- she’d left her first husband, & didn’t marry her second (my grandfather) ‘til a year after their third child (my mother)...
I’m sorry but your great grandmother is the exception, not the norm. Most 21-year-olds in the 1920s and 1930s didn’t have any children let alone 3. The TFR in the US (and I’m guessing a lot of European countries too had similar patterns) was 3 children per woman in 1925 and had fallen to 2.1 children (replacement rate) by the late 1930s. Your great grandmother literally had her kids in the flapper age, a time when women were gaining more and more rights every year. And the most unusual thing that you think was normal was the fact that she had her first at 15. Most 15-year-old girls didn’t even have their periods until about 1960. See decline in age at menarche due to processed foods and chemicals. A 15-year-old having a baby is about as common a century ago as now.
And then there is Emily FitzGerald (née Lennox), Duchess of Leinster who gave birth to 22 children. Her father was the 2nd Duke of Richmond whose marriage had been arranged in order to settle his father's gambling debts. Surprisingly, the union turned out to be a happy one, which affected the Duke's attitudes about marriage. He allowed his daughter Emily to marry for love and although both Emily and her husband had affairs, their marriage was also a fairly happy one. After the death of her husband, the first Duke of Leinster, and with 19 children to her credit, she married William Ogilvie, a commoner. Together they had another three children. It is also widely believed that her last son from the first marriage was actually Ogilvie's. Large families had advantages in terms of securing dynastic succession in an age when child mortality rates were very high. But in this case it turned out to have been deeply injurious to the finances of the House of Leinster. The first Duke was overly generous in his will to his widow and many children. The result was that the second Duke was so financially encumbered by annuities and doweries that he was left with an income of barely ₤7,000. That would have been a substantial income for most people. But for a Duke with vast estates to maintain as also political and charitable causes he was expected to support, it was wholly inadequate and the Dukedom found itself cash strapped for generations. The last of the family's lands and estates were lost in the early part of the last century. The title still exists, but the current holder does not use it and lives a quiet middle class life. (Edit: Typo)
My great great grandmother gave birth to twenty children! Fortunately, depending on how you look at it, twins ran on both sides of the family so she only had to give birth fifteen times!!!
I’m not sure you can call Charlotte England’s first “known” bi-racial Queen. Experts on this topic have questioned it. And the moors of North Africa have varying skin tones. If you could look into it and clarify the matter, I would greatly appreciate it.
Not really sure 1 black person in 500 years counts as a biracial heritage.
One result of the Roman Empire is that we are all mixed. While it’s true that odd genes can pop up now and then after centuries, I believe that (except in cases like the slavery in the US or that of Nazi Germany) the social construct of race mainly pertains to one’s appearance.
Not really, North Africans are also white, the social construct is largely the borders we put it at (in west it continues to be the borders of historical Christendom, but the reality is that common ancestry stretches to Pakistan and includes high caste Indians (the caste system is rooted in a racial one set up by invaders a bit like in the early Muslim empire), Persians for example are much less arabised, but even the arabs are deeply interrelated, hell most jews are different due to a population bottleneck in medieval times rather than different ancestry, the massive split comes when comparing Turkic people and the like), we are very genetically different, and not acknowledging that would be a nightmare for doctors as it goes deeper than the skin and leads to different potency of disease, likelihood of illness and reactions to medication. The amount of slaves from South of the Sahara during Roman time was very limited, most slaves were greek, celt, or Germanic, also the period ended with large scale Germanic migrations.
She was North African 16 generations back, which kind of makes it clear how desperate they are to link royals to this sort of nonsense, in all likelihood she was just born with a darker tone of skin, if it was from ancestry then they should probably have been looking towards possible flings with the gardener rather than ancestry so far back as to be very very minimal on the wider genetic level.
@@vorynrosethorn903
true. many spaniards are just a bit darker than mortherners because of ancient admixtures. if moors were in Spain for 700 years, they would also have lightened .
I’m glad that you have podcasts! Your voice is very calming and well modulated, and is so nice to listen to. I actually enjoy your visuals, too, because they very nicely paced. It’s nice to have choices, because there are times when I just want to really relax and lie down and listen!
And I’m here SWEATING, thinking about having just ONE next year after getting our own house, ……these ladies popping out children like skittles taste the rainbow 🌈
child bearing is actually good for you if you are healthy. and each birth gets easier. just be sure to breastfeed exclusively for as long as possible, as that is natural birth control and also very good for your body. Nursing shrinks the uterus and produces feel-good hormones. Pregnancy itself has hormones that heal and beautify your body as well. and prevent wrinkles... etc The fetus sends out healing chemistry to the mother's body. Nursing helps you lose body fat.
@@theCosmicQueen how did you as a woman managed to talk like a straight 60 year old man who is obsessed with 20s to 30s year old women's fertility? 😬
My great grandmother had 11 kids with at least 2 sets of twins. That was in the 1910s too. Amazing women, for sure.
My uterus was screaming in terror throughout this video, having survived an extremely traumatic and life threatening c section at 26 weeks myself, I literally cannot have anymore kids cause of the damage. I would never have survived as a woman in these times Good lord
Lindsay, there are other royal/noble women who gave birth or had a staggering number of pregnancies. They were: Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Electress Palatine. She had 17 children. Two of her daughters had successful marriages, Maria Anna of Neuburg married Charles II of Spain and Eleanor Magdalena married Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. Another queen who deserves a mention is Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Spain. She gave birth to 14 children, but counting her miscarriages, she was pregnant a total of 24 times!
Also Queen Darejan of Georgia, Countess Dorothea of Stolberg-Gedern, and Archduchess Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland who had 14 children and 15 miscarriages
24 pregnancies?! Holy cow!
Princess of Carolina of Nassau-Orange had 15 children but 4 were stillborn. Countess Consort of Stolberg-Gerden Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow had 23 children but 11 survived adulthood. She is the great-great-great grandmother of Queen Victoria.
If you are going to call Queen Charlotte biracial because of an ancestor 15 generations ago, then you have to call all of her descendants, including Queen Elizabeth and her entire family biracial. Don't get me wrong, I would love it if they could prove that the royals were actually biracial, but one ancestor 15 generations ago who is not even confirmed to be black....that's a real stretch and when you report on it like you just it it diminishes your credibility.
It’s truly bizarre to hear her continuously repeat that same line from an earlier episode and then literally right after state that the ancestor was 15 generations back. Like, how can someone be biracial because of a 13x great grandparent?
@@piratesswoop725 someone picked up on this when Meghan Markle joined the Royal Family, and sensationalized it so they could sell their articles. And it worked, people keep repeating it, they even made a movie based in part on the idea...its all about selling copy and making money. Oh and monetized TH-cam videos.
Elizabeth acknowledges her black history was kind it
Megan about it
@@barbaracampbell9907 Are you thinking of that Lifetime movie lol
@@piratesswoop725 no
Not at all
Mumtaz was truly loved by her husband... When she died in childbirth having her last child, her husband built the Taj Mahal in her honor...
Extremely interesting!!
If only he loved her so much as to not put her through another childbirth. 🐝
@@amandadassonville4043you see this it was not so " unique" for queens
I know an elderly woman who gave birth to 18 children and at home, she is now 89 years old.
I also know some of her sons and daughters, but many have died.
Pregnancy and childbirth is one of my biggest fears as it is in modern age, I can't imagine having to go through with it 15 times like Eleanor where only 6 survive until adulthood...
Edit: Omg I hadn't even made it to Anne's part of the video, 18 births and only 1 survivor🥴
they been brain washed by GODSWILL
who’d only live for like 11 years
Pregnancy and Childbirth are fine in the modern age. Most healthy women have uneventful pregnancies and recover well from birth. It's a natural but intense process. Health and attitude make everything
there had to be several things dreadfully wrong, and of course not enough ways to help them at that time.
I am very glad that I had an opportunity to listen the history of my country from my favorite channal. Georgia still is unknown for many people so thank you that you put the story of Queen Darejan in the video.
It is amazing how much life has changed in the last century. My grandmother had 9 kids. My mom had two. So far neither my brother or I have kids. I don’t even think people realize how lucky we are to have a choice in the matter ( to some degree at least , don’t know if we ever will be in a world where everyone has that privilege).
The average woman had 3 children a century ago in the US. The largest change was actually in the century before that, rather than the last century.
Obviously you are much more likely to be descended from someone who had more.
Also is it a choice if everyone makes the same, or just a new social norm.
Everyone has that privilege but due to ignorance, not caring, cultural norms they continue to have a ton of children. This large population growth is almost entirely limited to 3rd world countries, the Middle East (where the average woman gives birth to SIX children and most of the wealthier men have 4 wives and many concubines) and India where they just don’t care.
Condoms are handed out like CANDY and they are used to make BALLOONS. I lived through this myself while volunteering in Africa and living in the Middle East. I finally gave up and came home. You can’t fix stupid. So spare me your whole ‘privilege’ tall tale.
@@mamavswild One of the rules of economics is that value is subjective, if you have a culture with a different value system they won't even have the framework to think about things in the same way as you. A highly religious society in which children are valued over material prosperity are just going to approach things differently. The west was also the richest place in the world back when women were having 7 kids on average, what we are seeing isn't advancement (indeed the west is only continuing due to immigration at this point) but the results of a new set of values taking hold and the sexual revolution facilitating them.
Also look up the fertility rate of the middle east, other than Afghanistan it is now below replacement.
@@vorynrosethorn903 Oh we sat and TAUGHT THEM. They absolutely understood what the condoms did. They also were having children they couldn’t take care of. One woman said to me and I kid you not, ‘that is why we have so many kids. Most die and the strong ones will live!’
Fk that ‘culture!’
I had my first baby at 19 and the doctor said I was lucky she was born small, despite still getting stuck and the doctor having to reposition her. I can’t imagine having a baby any younger than that, much less 13… 😮
Imagine! This is why I’m afraid of childbirth. I’m glad you and your child managed to survive
Nothing ventured nothing gained, and what more to gain than new life.
Yep, there was a reason it was heavily stigmatized by the church and marriages between young people tended to come with a contract agreeing they wouldn't cohabit until 18 or so, really most people started between 16 and 22. It is better for future births and everything else if you start in your early twenties at least, the longer it is left the more complications are likely, but one in the twenties gets the body used to it and lowers the chance of problems in your 30's. Those it's really the least of our worries as average age of childbirth going up over thirty historically trends with societal collapse, civil wars and revolution.
My grandmother had 9 living children and two miscarriages, she had 7 siblings and my grandfather (her husband) had 7 sisters and 2 brothers for a total of 10. His father had 11 and the generation before that was 12. Thats as far back as we have gone, but my mothers siblings used to joke about which sibling would have 8 children, none of them did.
my great grandmother had 14 pregnancies, only 7 survived
My friend was married in 2010. She told me that since the first year of her marriage life, she never has the chance to have period. She's always pregnant. She told me this in 2021. I didn't ask how many children she has.
My 5th Great Grandmother had 13 children in the early 1800's and all but three survived into adulthood. She lived well into her seventies.
i like that "Mrs. Mahal" was admired/loved/respected for her intellect as well as for her reproductive abilities.
My maternal great grandmother had 11 boys. Most of them ended up alcoholics and organized crime here in Oklahoma. Except for my grandpa who became an insurance salesman and didn't drink a drop of liquor may he R.I.P. Love you papa
I have noted that mine in Oklahoma in that same time frame had so many divorces, and children by so many different women. My direct line did not, but the collaterals, wow!. I have wondered if it was from the uprooting from a settled time of their life to an area that was wild and unsettled and they were just at the age they could not be told what to do and they were adults and thrust out into the world where there were no guidelines as being good and bad or if it was the influence of WWI and the depression before WWI and then after WWI the Influenza epidemic, where life seemed hopeless and they thought there was nothing to live for so "do what they wanted to who what they wanted". I see this in a generation of my family of those who came to Oklahoma in the land rushes. As all my family came thru at this time to Oklahoma, I do not know if others in other states were influenced by the same things in life without the moving to Oklahoma, but I know there was a lot of movement Westward to Oregon, Washington, and California and Hawaii.
@@carolynatkinson5456 Holy Crap WE COULD BE RELATED!!!! (I'm being sincere, not sarcastic) Each of my great uncles had several kids theres...At least 70 of us altogether! Oklahoma wasn't as big as it is now there's totally a chance we are distant relatives!! Oh! How'd your family do in the Land Run??? Did they get a good piece of land? Or were they one of the Sooners who snuck out the night before the Land Run officially started to search for good plots and areas and planted their stick (I forget what the officially name for the wooden sticks with the numbered flags on them that they stuck in the ground that it was claimed lol) My ancestors were Sooners. More Land taken from the Indian Tribes after being death marched to there and on an unrelated note, The land they did finally get to keep, the Native Americans, Turns out was filled with OIL turning them all into billionaires!!!!! If that's not poetic justice I don't know what is!!! Well, the ones that weren't murdered and their land stolen which is what Martin Scorsece's next movie Killers of the Flower Moon is about...but I'm guessing you already know all this but wrapping up, So were they big fat land thieves like my ancestors or did they play fair and get a good piece of land in the Land Run?
@@mediocremaiden8883 They were Sooners, and were caught and arrested and put in jail in Arkansas City, KS, it is in the newspaper there, but they did not get good land. My gg grandfather had to fight another person for what he got, and lost it all in a Sheriff sale before he died abt 1909. His children were able to claim land, and some did well, and some did not. NONE got land that had oil on it. My g grandparents lost their farm in the depression. I do not know all the ins and outs of it, but grandma said he did not have a good head for business. He and my g grandmother ran the Poor farm for Payne Co until they moved in with my grandparents in OKC. My g aunt and her husband bought them a small house to live in north of my grandparents. I was 3 or so when my g grandfather died, but I remember being on the bed and playing with him. He died of stomach cancer. My g grandmother died when I was about 14. I have her wedding ring. They were married in 1899. Ring is not worth much in money but worth so much to me because it was hers.
@@carolynatkinson5456 Wow! Yeah...Yeah things were good until the Depression...but weren't they always? I'm not sure what happened to the land, lost, gambled away, drank away, who knows...The exact line of all of us...The youngest of the brothers died, that was my grandfather in 2016. However, I have some...one...half uncle that he had with his 'favorite wife' who got everything. Except for the income from the 2 books he wrote..That were absolutely horrible almost gibberish books when I was younger I thought perhaps it was just all so philosophical and above my head but no its...It's Gibberish. Bless His Heart..I did get a love of generosity, charity (it was all about feeding the poor and taking care of the poor having grown up in Depression era Oklahoma) He was a huge Democrat. He was the Biggest "Blue-est" man in the "Red" of States so we are all Democrats...but we love this Red State..ya know? I'm glad that he passed in early 2016 when he thought we were about to have our first Woman President because everything that happened after would have just killed him again. I'm not turning anything into a political thing I'm just saying that's who he was *shrugs* That's wonderful you have that ring. Beautiful piece of the past that it sounds like many generations of strong women held and wore, too.
Re Queen Charlotte,if it’s 13 generations back, does it _really_ count as biracial?
by now reading this far down, who cares!!!!!!!
my great-great grandmother had 12 kids, and they all survived to adulthood which i thought was pretty cool!
Thank God for Birth Control and the right to decide whether you want to be pregnant or not.
What heartbreak! Stillborn is bad enough, but losing numerous children to Small Pox is unimaginable. Being rich and powerful was not enough to save these families.
Lindsay, I absolutely love your voice itself--it's a pleasure to listen to.
Actually, two daughters of Anna Jagiellonica married the king of Poland Sigismund II Augustus - Elizabeth and Catherine were both married to him, Catherine after her sister died.
IMO, Queen Charlotte and Queen Victoria were similar in their views of pregnancy. Although QC was much more loving towards her offspring than QV, both wanted to hold off marriages for the younger children, wanting them to remain by their sides.
my great aunt had 22 kids. 3 sets of twins and 16 singles.
The most that I knoe of in my family was my paternal great grandmother, who had 14 kids, mostly boys. My favorite part is that most of the boys were over 6 feet tall. Both my grandmother and I are below 5'6".
Imagine being considered biracial because of the color of one ancestor over 400 years before you were born? I think it’s so unimportant to keep track of such an ethereal thing at that point.
like other commenters, i also wish you’d stop referring to queen charlotte as biracial. if having one ancestor 13 generations back that might have been black gives someone the title of biracial, then we should call most humans biracial. it does nothing to pretend like she was black
Agreed. Even the ethnicity of the said ancestor is questionable, may or may not have been of colour.
and moors having been in spain for 600 years before 1300, well, that's twice as many generations and so , could be much whiter by 1300.
Then let's call everyone biracial.😂😂 Let's stop pretending all humanity ain't related.
@@assassinb460 where did i say we aren’t? but biracial has a specific definition and labeling all humans as that just isn’t very helpful
My grandmother is the 5th of 10 and my great grandmother surprisingly didn’t loose any children. The 4th oldest died later in life. My great uncle had so many near death experiences yet was killed in a car crash. They lived on a farm so they had lots of _willing_ participants to work the farm.
I am one of 14 children and I gave birth to 12 children and only 6 survived. The babies I lost died at birth within a matter of hours or days. Longest one my first son Charles living 2 1/2 days. God Bless my babies in heaven. I know I will see them some day.
I feel bad for these women for having so many kids before doctors washed their hands 😢
My maternal great-grandmother had 20 children, 13 survived. She was very petitte, I don't know how she managed, but she did have a long life, passed away at 98 years of age in 1978.
13 generations ago isn't biracial, or I would be too, since my African ancestors date to just before the US Civil War, that is, some of my 4th and 5th (and earlier) ancestors only 6-8 generations ago. And I have been doing my families genealogy since 2005. She just has confirmed African Ancestry, but isn't biracial, that is BarakObama. On census records people who were only 1/8th African were listed as octoroons, not biracial.
I just found out about Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt and immediately thought of this video. She had 23 children, 14 of whom lived to adulthood, 3 died in infancy, and 6 miscarriage/stillbirths. She died at 74 years old and her children include a Holy Roman Empress, 2 Electors Palestine, the Queens of Portugal and Spain, the Duchess of Parma, and a Princess of Poland.
My mother had 14 children I'm Number 13 out of 14 and my grandmother had 23 children and I remember one day asking her my God Grandma how the heck did you take care of all of these kids and she smiled and said.. "I didn't I took care of the first two after that they took care of their siblings"... my grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian...
Same story I heard from a mother of 12, a Hispanic woman who was married at age 12.
Wow this is wild. Thanks for sharing. My nana’s mom had 19 children starting very young and died in child birthing. So sad 😞
And love your blurb “do you hate looking and blinking?” 😂
I am related to the French king, apparently the King was getting down with a peasant whose child ended up in Spain who then ended up in Mexico. I assumed the Spanish blood and French blood was from a really long time ago but my Spanish and French blood is from my great grandma who left Spain in 1880 and moved to Mexico and married a native Mexican. So I’m literally half native, 25 percent Spanish and 25 percent French 🤯 it’s really interesting.
If your most recent ancestor with French, Spanish and native blood was your great grandparents that makes you 12.5% native, 6.25% Spanish and french. Not half or 25% unless one of your parents is from those places
10:42 That daughter lived a short time and her first child at 13 was either stillborn or lived a short time.
My grandfather from my mother side had 6 brothers and one sister. Oldest was born in 1924 and youngest 1942 few months after my great grandfather had died in war. And sadly the girl died as one day old
my grandmother had 10 kids, all of whom are still alive today, and her mother had 13 children, 10 of which survived to adulthood
Geez, I can definitely see why Queen Elizabeth I noped out of that kind of thing!