@@SungSNam They were categorically not allowed to be interesting. Ever since William & Mary signed that great big sheet of paper of all the things they couldn't do, the monarchy has seldom done anything except what is of interest to itself.
"He was not invited to his mother's funeral. He did not outlive his father and take the throne. He was hit in the stomach by a tennis ball and the resulting ulcer killed him." That's rough queen
Prince Frederick of Wales' premature end possibly changed the course of world history. George III came to throne years earlier than expected, and we all know what happened less than 20 years later.
So ironic that King George the third loved his daughters more then sons. Also,Charlotte was a remarkable woman and deserves way more attention that she gets in general!-
In a way George loved his daughters a little too much as it made him extremely reluctant to arrange marriages for them and let them leave the family home. Certainly George wanted to protect them from enduring unhappy marriages like his sisters Augusta and Caroline Matilda had to, but at the same time keeping them as confined spinisters made them bitter and resentful.
@@Lionstar16 He could help prevent that by letting the girls court for a longer period of time, and let themselves select their own favorites amoung the suitours. It wouldn't be 100% change of happiness, but it would definetly help their chances
once this series is over lindsay, you should totally make a series about the mothers of british kings (and queens) such as: lady margaret beaufort, augusta of saxe-gotha, victoria of saxe-coburg-saalfeld and others! although not consorts, these women were extremely important and deserve more spotlight.
@@mangot589 true! i always have a tendency to forget the older monarchs 😜 mary queen of scots could also qualify...as could lady frances brandon. although lady jane grey is..questionable.
Well, sometimes you got lucky. The Marquis de Lafayette (of American Revolutionary War fame) was arranged to be married to his wife when he was like 15, but miraculously in their meetings shortly beforehand, they actually developed feelings for each other and shared some of each other's views. They had a pretty joyful marriage until sadly she died of illness at age 48.
George II is one bizarre king. Claimed to love his wife, but still took mistresses. He also had one of the most embarrassing deaths of any monarch: He died on the toilet in 1760. Good grief, the Hanovers were such a messed up family.
@@aleasyah3032 But the thing is it’s very hypocritical for them to claim it’s a part of a kings “royal duty” to have mistresses even though the children born out of it are largely ignored and labeled as illegitimate and are unable to rule. It’s also hypocritical because they claim to be followers of Jesus but seem to just skip over everything that says adultery is forbidden and will not go unpunished. So that “rule” that all kings must have a mistress is politically pointless and goes against the teachings they claim to follow so devotedly.
@@thunderbird1921 it was sort of a royal duty, why? mistresses gave in to politicians and courtiers and could easily manipulate the king. with a mistress in the court the queen would not have so much power. george wasn't very fond of his mistresses excet one who he traveled to hanover to see often and brought her to britan after caroline's death. note caroline was fully aware of what was occuirng, while she was unhappy about it especially with this particular woman cause she was out of sight and george was home less and less. but these two loved each other to the extreme and even after caroline died, george was said to have kiss edher lifeless body from the hands to forehads about several times before secluding himself in his room with lord john hervey for weeks.
The marriage of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick is definitely one of the worst in history - it got so bad that after a few years they couldn't even be in the same room as each other. They were often so caught up in fighting one another that their daughter Charlotte was left to feel lonely and unloved - George would try at every turn to prevent Caroline access to the girl but would not make the effort to form a close bond with her either. Likewise, Caroline's wild behaviour embarrassed Charlotte and she complained that her mother seemed to prefer her adoptive children than to her own flesh and blood.
@@jessicamorton6081 Depends on the father. George IV didn't have the best reasons for disliking his father, but I know plenty of ppl. who might have felt justified.
The comment Queen Caroline made about her son Prince Frederick was jaw dropping for me! I gotta say this video may be my personal favorite one so far out of the 7 posted.
Nevercatchwind Any woman who is strong enough to give birth to even one child let alone children in the double digits have my absolute respect and admiration, especially since for women, love and marriage is like war to men, very dangerous and they had a rather high death rate back then! The men need to remember the ladies! ❤
@@user-oj7bn5fq4m True, Diana and Caroline are both Princess of Wales that are neglected by the Heir of the Throne. And both Prince Charles and George fall in love with a women who are unsuitable to become queen consorts.
@@baddestpurr5830 Queen Marie Antoinette Born: 2 November 1755, The Hofburg, Vienna, Austria Died: 16 October 1793, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France Queen Charlotte Born: 19 May 1744, Mirow, Germany Died: 17 November 1818, Kew Palace, Richmond, United Kingdom both can speak german fluently... most of Marie Antoinette ancestors was also german nobility/royalty likely distant distant cousin to Queen charlotte and closer cousin to King George to the stuarts
@@SungSNam tbh Henry was an athlete. In his later years, he was basically injured ;head,legs etc. He wasnt active and thats how he was obese. He had the same feast as a teen but he used to excersice alot like really alot. Due to incidents thats how he ended up there
It was indeed. Caroline had endured the discomfort caused by the umbilical hernia stoically for thirteen years but it came to a crisis when a loop of her bowel squeezed its way through the hernia and became trapped. If the doctors had just pushed the bowel back into place and sewed up the hole there was a chance Caroline could have lived, but instead they cut it away and it killed her.
@@Lionstar16 what??? That's terrible! I was trying to imagine how this hernia happened. I know back then medical procedures were dangerous for sure, thank you for clearing that up because I was baffled for a minute. I'm a mom too it sounds so horrifying to go through that!
This kind of thing happens when you give birth to a lot of children. It can weaken your stomach and can give it other problems like Caroline’s umbilical hernia
I took the throne of England just ‘cause I was Protestant A German prince whose English stank: King George #1 I liked to argue, now that’s clear; especially with my father here Before I died of diarrhea, I fought with my son I broke records with my sixty year reign And I broke the scales with my giant frame
I really appreciate your educational historical content. History has always been something that has fascinated me. I'm a sucker for historical dramas. Thank you for all that you do 💖
Wow! This one was my favorite of this series. What very interesting folks. Also shows, that the 'scandals' and bad talk of the current royal family really looks like 'angels' compared to the Royals 'back in the day. And some really progressive and wonderful women. Again.... Really loved this one.
I could be wrong, but isn't Queen Victoria a Hanoverian monarch as well? So, shouldn't Prince Albert also be part of the Hanoverian section because Victoria was the sovereign? Much like how Princess Anne's husband was talked about in the Stuart section because the ruling house at the time was the Stuarts.
I think it's fitting that he's not in this one. Victoria was a Hanover but her marriage changed the House Name and it's a straight line from her to the present. She's often lumped with her descendants as the first 'modern monarch'. Plus it looks like she's keeping the videos at 30 min.
@@lucifermorningstar-k2f I know! Just making extra extra backup precautions for the extra backup precautions for the backup precautions for the precautions
Now that you have done English and British consorts, I think you should do a series on Scottish consorts as well, before the Union under James VI and I.
From Gruoch to Bothwell, then? Including Anne of Denmark would be more proper, if redundant, but then again so would including every consort up to Queen Anne, as it was only after her Scotland ceased to be an independent kingdom.
@@jeandehuit5385 Well, it’s true that England and Scotland were independent states until the reign of Queen Anne, but they shared the same monarch after Elizabeth I’s death. That is why in her videos on English and British consorts, she actually covered Scottish consorts from Anne of Denmark onward. So I guess it would be better to start from Gruoch and end with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who was the last Scottish consort but was not an English consort simultaneously.
By the way, it’d be good if she did a series on the reigning kings and queens of Scotland, similar to the one she did for England. It’d be really interesting to watch.
@@jeandehuit5385 Well, Bothwell was never raised to the rank of king consort or prince consort, but yes, technically he would be the last Scottish consort before the two countries started sharing one monarch.
Absolutely fascinating. Love the way you weave these great stories together for us, Lindsay! They could not have come at a better time for us all. Thankyou! ...love the woman Caroline was!
Charlotte is my 13th cousin 5 times removed, so connecting me to British royalty! Which then connects to my native Norway through Maud of Wales (17th cousin once removed) marrying who would become King Haakon VII (18th cousin)! I am also 7th cousin to our current crown prince's wife, so I am 7th cousin once removed to who will be Norway's first proper queen regnant (I don't count Margrethe)! The world is small.
Can I please say: It was wonderful to hear, how good the speaker said Meiningen! I lived my whole life here in this little town called Meiningen (in Thuringia) and I was pleased to hear, how good the speaker said the name, that it was real german pronunciation. In my childhood we visited the place, where Adelain (ger.: Adelheit) lived (it is almost in the center of our town) and there allways was a young woman, who played her and ever was dressed as in her famous portrait. But also the stands a doll, who looks like her and wearing a blue velvet dress, if the actress isn't there. All in all I adored her so much. Thank you for making me a proud citizen of my mothertown❤❤❤
Caroline and the kings relationship was actually very cute , stating that they are ROYALS and royals don't often have good relationship . Like when she was on her death bed they must love each other so much claiming that Caroline gave permission for him to remarry but he denied.
Poor George 111 suffered from a condition known as porphyria. This can cause psychiatric symptoms including hallucinations and psychosis. Very interesting video. I enjoyed it enormously. 👍😃
Spain would be a monster, as you'd have to cover the Kingdoms of Leon, Pamplona (later Navarre), Castile, & Aragon. Oftentimes one or two were in a personal union, but most of the time they weren't. Even so, all of them were related to begin with & kept intermarrying until basically the present-day. Portugal would be a separate story, as they did not ultimately become a part of the Spanish union, but they were on the same level as all the kingdoms above (e.g. they were related to & intermarried with the Castilian & Aragonese royal families), so it would be disingenuous to leave them out IMO.
About the "black" Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: To get a perspective: imagine tracing all your ancestors 15 generations back, you get abt 32.768 ppl (ideally, in reality it's less than that). Now imagine these are 32.767 white ppl and one black person and when ppl find out about this, they call YOU black. Totally absurd.
Not to mention that her "black" ancestor was moor, and moors were mostly north African berbers, and with the English coming in little contact with North Africans, they would assume that she was black, when there is in fact little chance of that
Plus "Moor" doesn't mean "black". It means she had some Arab origins. That's a fantasy propagated by (some) African Americans in order to cultutally appropriate other cultutes instead of being proud of their own, so you see them wearing turbans and praising the populations that enslaved their anchestors for a millennia and have not really stop doing so.
In those times that what she was considered. The one drop rule was created by Europeans, and their descendants. She had no choice in her bloodline. Even in that painting, she has some Black features.
@@AuthorLHollingsworth Absolutely nobody considered her black. I would be surprised if anyone in her family or her husband’s family knew or even cared who her 13x great-grandmother even was. She was a white princess from Germany.
Why not? Good if she was biracial! If she was her painted features were played down which is what the painters did in that era. Yet her African looks can still be seen regardless Yet there is written history what she really looked like..which was of African blood. Any way she was what she was and her King loved her! Sigh
You're a remarkable storyteller, @lindsayholiday!! I'm a total history geek! The history of the English/British monarchs and the salacious tales including their significant others... Hanoverian Soap Operas!! This series is top-notch...I will be genuinely sad when it ends. Though, I'm sure you have plenty of historical ideas up your sleeve!!
I'm really glad that Lindsey addressed the "biracial" conversation about Queen Charlotte. Her (alleged) black ancesstress lived and died 500 years before Charlotte was even born so I with less than 1% of such DNA, she could hardly be called Britain's first biracial Queen. 🤦🏼♀️
Europeans considered her bi-racial due to the one drop rule that they created. She didnt have a choice in what people thought. Either way, she was beautiful. Period!
@@AuthorLHollingsworth The One-Drop-Rule is an American concept actually, not European.And that rule didn't become a thing until the early 20th century, long after her death.
Who gives a fuck what race she was. She was German as the rest of them by language, culture and tradition. She could have been absolutely black and still German. Being black in appearance does not make you black. No difference to a lion bred in captivity and raised by humans...it becomes a lion in appearance only.
Thank you so much for sharing this most interesting and educational video! I learned so so much today, and I thought I knew everything about the Hanover dynasty! You should write a book about these consorts! I think it would make for a very interesting history book. Well done indeed!
@@SungSNam Caroline of Ansbach & George II had a mutual dislike for their son, Frederick Lewis. Supposedly Caroline asked a courtier if it wouldn't be possible to get somebody else to knock-up her daughter-in-law in the event her son couldn't do it. The courtier replied it was *technically* possible, but no man would agree to do it, given that once the 'heir' was of age, he would likely try to murder his biological father to suppress his illegitimacy. Caroline relented & allowed nature to take its course.
Can you imagine being pregnant and having babies so much, Back then they were probably more ok with the mistresses to give them a freakin break lol. lordy
If interested in learning more about Caroline, a fictionalized version of her is featured in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle books. Amazing woman, raised by amazing women.
Sorry correct me if im wrong but isnt queen victoria a hanoverian and shouldnt her husband Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha should be in this video because he himself is a consort?
Yes, she's constantly parroted around for speculative ancestry. In the 20th Century, the 'theory' was the Portuguese mistress she descends from somehow had 'plausible' descent from antiquity. In the 21st Century, she's somehow morphed into having 'black' ancestry. The truth is it's an unknown. None of the theories hold much water yet both are parroted around by ppl. who wish to seem 'smart' on matters of genealogy. I doubt Charlotte herself cared much about such ancestry, if she was even aware of it, which I also doubt.
@@jeandehuit5385 You're right, I mean that supposed ancestor was five hundred years prior to her, and srsly, how many generations, how many centuries have to pass before ppl stop calling someone black bcs of that one non-white ancestor, it's ridiculous. To get a perspective: imagine tracing all your ancestors 15 generations back, you get abt 32.768 ppl (ideally, in reality it's less than that). Now imagine these are 32.767 white ppl and one black person and when ppl find out about this, they call YOU black. Totally absurd.
There are literally fully Black people present in Britisg history, such as the God daughter of Queen Victoria. Why they had to choose Charlotte, who had maybe 1 Black ancestor from centuries ago is strange.
@@desonmonde4086 one possible explanation for this is that a (supposed) black ancestor, however far back, provides you with a set of genetics that flow into your family, thus "tainting" it, while a godchild usually is not genetically related to you, so it's okay-ish. I know, it's a horribly racist mindset and ppl really should have moved on from it. It's 2021 after all.
Charlotte sounds similar to Queen Victoria in that she didn’t want her daughters to get married, but 15 pregnancies?? These consorts, I feel for them, because they knew it was required that they produce at least an heir & a spare. Yet the only reason they were having so many back in the day, was because health & survival was a very REAL thing. When miscarriages, stillborns & children dying young was a very regular occurrence. It was sad, but something that was almost expected with the times being wha they were from a medical/healthcare perspective. At least Kate Middleton made sure she got 3 out in a timely manner, so people didn’t have a reason to call her “waity Katie” again.
"so that they could molder side by side for eternity"
iconic
I agree 👍I love these videos so much 💗
OMG I- AHHHHH THANQ SO MUCH THIS IS MY FAVORITE YT
That reminded me of Addams Family, Morticia and Gomez
So romantic.
IKR
I feel bad for Sophia Dorothea, all she wanted was to be with someone who loved her, and was imprisoned for 32 years.
That story infuriated me!! Like my blood was boiling with rage. Swear if I ever lived in those times I would have been killed for treason
I agree. That was really sad.
That's usually what happens to good girls who just want love. We always get the short end of the stick.
@@sadunicorn3863 i
My heart aches for her. I hope she got to reincarnate and have a better life than she had then.
when Caroline saw George's portrait she was like JA, when she met him she was like NEIN
Great joke
lol
Good one 😂
It actually brought me to memory the song "Haus of Holbein" from "SIX: The musical" 😂
@@midnight9613 hi Elizabeth
@@weluvmia hi
tbh these consorts were more interesting than the monarchs
Duh
@@SungSNam I don't know what those things have to do with being interesting or not, but okay. (also the fat-shaming? XD)
They've always been more interesting.... You're just now finding out.
@@SungSNam I know, it's just that those were not good reasons.
@@SungSNam They were categorically not allowed to be interesting. Ever since William & Mary signed that great big sheet of paper of all the things they couldn't do, the monarchy has seldom done anything except what is of interest to itself.
Every Hanoverian king hated their father and carried grandfather's qualities
This is the worst game of leapfrog ever!
Literally every single king in a nutshell
George I: Died from Strawberries
George II: Died from Hot Chocolate
George III: Died from ‘madness’
George IV: Died from obesity
Hi daughter
@@kinghenryviiiofengland4376 hi father ❤️
I see a pattern
You marry the Tenth Doctor who left you 😂
@@savagedarksider5934 get lost
"He was not invited to his mother's funeral. He did not outlive his father and take the throne. He was hit in the stomach by a tennis ball and the resulting ulcer killed him."
That's rough queen
Prince Frederick of Wales' premature end possibly changed the course of world history. George III came to throne years earlier than expected, and we all know what happened less than 20 years later.
What kind of tennis balls did they have???
@@kathleenmuchka2559 I'd like to know as well.
So ironic that King George the third loved his daughters more then sons. Also,Charlotte was a remarkable woman and deserves way more attention that she gets in general!-
In a way George loved his daughters a little too much as it made him extremely reluctant to arrange marriages for them and let them leave the family home. Certainly George wanted to protect them from enduring unhappy marriages like his sisters Augusta and Caroline Matilda had to, but at the same time keeping them as confined spinisters made them bitter and resentful.
@@Lionstar16 He could help prevent that by letting the girls court for a longer period of time, and let themselves select their own favorites amoung the suitours. It wouldn't be 100% change of happiness, but it would definetly help their chances
once this series is over lindsay, you should totally make a series about the mothers of british kings (and queens) such as: lady margaret beaufort, augusta of saxe-gotha, victoria of saxe-coburg-saalfeld and others! although not consorts, these women were extremely important and deserve more spotlight.
Stephens’ mother too!
@@mangot589 true! i always have a tendency to forget the older monarchs 😜
mary queen of scots could also qualify...as could lady frances brandon. although lady jane grey is..questionable.
Also Russia’s Elisabeth Feodorovna
That was would be awesome! Great idea. Especially that Victoria is included in it. ;)
PLS I WORDED THIS SO WEIRD- LMAOOO
brillant idea.
I mean, blind dates can be pretty disastrous and now you’re asking for a blind WEDDING?!
Well there is that reality show 'Married at First Sight' so I guess some things just don't change.
Well, sometimes you got lucky. The Marquis de Lafayette (of American Revolutionary War fame) was arranged to be married to his wife when he was like 15, but miraculously in their meetings shortly beforehand, they actually developed feelings for each other and shared some of each other's views. They had a pretty joyful marriage until sadly she died of illness at age 48.
@@thunderbird1921 F
I can literally imagine Queen Caroline rolling her eyes at her husband on her deathbed XD
George II is one bizarre king. Claimed to love his wife, but still took mistresses. He also had one of the most embarrassing deaths of any monarch: He died on the toilet in 1760. Good grief, the Hanovers were such a messed up family.
@@thunderbird1921 usurpers are strange.
@@aleasyah3032 But the thing is it’s very hypocritical for them to claim it’s a part of a kings “royal duty” to have mistresses even though the children born out of it are largely ignored and labeled as illegitimate and are unable to rule. It’s also hypocritical because they claim to be followers of Jesus but seem to just skip over everything that says adultery is forbidden and will not go unpunished. So that “rule” that all kings must have a mistress is politically pointless and goes against the teachings they claim to follow so devotedly.
@@thunderbird1921 it was sort of a royal duty, why? mistresses gave in to politicians and courtiers and could easily manipulate the king. with a mistress in the court the queen would not have so much power. george wasn't very fond of his mistresses excet one who he traveled to hanover to see often and brought her to britan after caroline's death. note caroline was fully aware of what was occuirng, while she was unhappy about it especially with this particular woman cause she was out of sight and george was home less and less. but these two loved each other to the extreme and even after caroline died, george was said to have kiss edher lifeless body from the hands to forehads about several times before secluding himself in his room with lord john hervey for weeks.
It was seen as a right of the king to have mistresses, even though they were Christians and adultery in Christianity is supposed to be forbidden. 🙄
The marriage of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick is definitely one of the worst in history - it got so bad that after a few years they couldn't even be in the same room as each other. They were often so caught up in fighting one another that their daughter Charlotte was left to feel lonely and unloved - George would try at every turn to prevent Caroline access to the girl but would not make the effort to form a close bond with her either. Likewise, Caroline's wild behaviour embarrassed Charlotte and she complained that her mother seemed to prefer her adoptive children than to her own flesh and blood.
I feel bad for Queen Caroline and Princess Charlotte. They both deserved better than to have King George IV as a husband and father. 😢
@@PrincessQ-fj9ly George VI was also kind of a shitty son too
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@@kyliecrybaby4161
George VI? or George IV?
George IV told doctors and his advisors to give his father harsh treatments. No wonder they hated eachother
Like for the Hanoverian kings
Thats mean stupid George 4
Who would ever do that to their own father
@@jessicamorton6081 Ikr
@@jessicamorton6081 Depends on the father. George IV didn't have the best reasons for disliking his father, but I know plenty of ppl. who might have felt justified.
The comment Queen Caroline made about her son Prince Frederick was jaw dropping for me! I gotta say this video may be my personal favorite one so far out of the 7 posted.
Nice to meet a fellow Zachary
I literally say that comment in my head every time I watch someone that I dislike walk past me
I can’t get over how much I love the name Adelaide
It kinda has the vibe that it's a name of a kind, classy and smart woman, doesn't? It is a beautiful name!
@@Laramaria2 yeah true!
That’s my mum’s name 😃
Yes, it’s beautiful. As is the city.
lol same
Hard to believe Charlotte gave birth to 15 children!
15 likes now lol
@@PC3112_transport 21 now
Nevercatchwind Any woman who is strong enough to give birth to even one child let alone children in the double digits have my absolute respect and admiration, especially since for women, love and marriage is like war to men, very dangerous and they had a rather high death rate back then! The men need to remember the ladies! ❤
I had one!! Thank you God for birth control.
Why? It was common those day to have large families.
Queen Caroline of Brunswick is the Catherine of Aragon of the Regency Period and the reign of King George IV
Caroline and Catherine of Aragon’s lives were also similar to Princess Diana.
@@user-oj7bn5fq4m True, Diana and Caroline are both Princess of Wales that are neglected by the Heir of the Throne. And both Prince Charles and George fall in love with a women who are unsuitable to become queen consorts.
@@brianthesage5119 VERY TRUE!!! 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯%
@@gregoryjones9546how so
Missing my bestie Charlotte 😭
Sad
so slrry marie
I want your cake
u died before her💀
@@baddestpurr5830
Queen Marie Antoinette
Born: 2 November 1755, The Hofburg, Vienna, Austria
Died: 16 October 1793, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France
Queen Charlotte
Born: 19 May 1744, Mirow, Germany
Died: 17 November 1818, Kew Palace, Richmond, United Kingdom
both can speak german fluently... most of Marie Antoinette ancestors was also german nobility/royalty likely distant distant cousin to Queen charlotte and closer cousin to King George to the stuarts
Sophia Dorothea is such a tragic story. George I treated her so cruelly just because she wanted to be loved, after he had essentially abandoned her.
Poor Sophia 😢
Thanks to George IV! That i am no longer Britain’s male fattest monarch 😂
Well.......we’ll see about that. You never know...,.
Maybe 😜
George IV was a buffoon.
@@jamesfrancisedwardstuart6255 yeah lol
@@SungSNam tbh Henry was an athlete. In his later years, he was basically injured ;head,legs etc. He wasnt active and thats how he was obese. He had the same feast as a teen but he used to excersice alot like really alot. Due to incidents thats how he ended up there
The dresses are always so pretty 😩 I would wear them if I could 🧍🏽♀️👏🏼
Ikr
Do it.
I'm seeing a pattern here between Hanoverians and their resolve to be the exact opposite of their fathers.
(and finally Albert is next!)
I know! I love Albert and Victoria!
Albert was HOT!!!!
I had to pause my MCU marathon when I saw the notificaiton for this. The Hanoverian Queens are ones I never knew much about and they're so interesting
Dude what movie u on?
@@LucyC07 Thor. I paused shirtless Chris Hemsworth for Lindsay; that’s commitment 😂
@@Kerriangel Daaaaaaaangggg. Ru going by chronological or release order
@@LucyC07 release order, starting with Iron Man and ending with Far from Home
This is like a drama channel for historic figures and i'm fully here for it
Very much
I really am enjoying these series. I've learned a lot about the British royals. Thank you for your hard work and sharing.
Once this series is finished, it would be interesting if Lindsay created another series on the Princesses of England
Omg. Caroline of Ansbach's death was so horrific. x.x She seemed like an interesting lady, too.
It was indeed. Caroline had endured the discomfort caused by the umbilical hernia stoically for thirteen years but it came to a crisis when a loop of her bowel squeezed its way through the hernia and became trapped. If the doctors had just pushed the bowel back into place and sewed up the hole there was a chance Caroline could have lived, but instead they cut it away and it killed her.
@@Lionstar16 what??? That's terrible! I was trying to imagine how this hernia happened. I know back then medical procedures were dangerous for sure, thank you for clearing that up because I was baffled for a minute. I'm a mom too it sounds so horrifying to go through that!
This kind of thing happens when you give birth to a lot of children. It can weaken your stomach and can give it other problems like Caroline’s umbilical hernia
I’m sad this is 7/8 😭 that happened fast
True- I’m so close!
@@jamescharcoal3472 your in the next episode on thursday part 8 of 8 that it no more queen consort and consort of england
@@jamescharcoal3472 the last series
@@jamescharcoal3472 the last chapter
Now I have "Borne to Rule" from "Horrible Histories" stuck in my head.
I took the throne of England just ‘cause I was Protestant
A German prince whose English stank: King George #1
I liked to argue, now that’s clear; especially with my father here
Before I died of diarrhea, I fought with my son
I broke records with my sixty year reign
And I broke the scales with my giant frame
Banana
I’ve never clicked so fast on a video. I’m loving this series from Lindsay!!
Nice to know people were already being catfished in the 1800s with flattering portraits.
I frickin love this🤩🤩 Her posts give me a boost of serotonin ❤️❤️❤️
I’m loving this consorts series! Thanks for making it!
I have a ‘Queens of the World’ request: Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
Not me literally waiting for these videos thanks for educating, fascinating and for filling my love for monarchs thank you Lindsay Holiday
I really appreciate your educational historical content. History has always been something that has fascinated me. I'm a sucker for historical dramas. Thank you for all that you do 💖
I would love to see a series on all of the First Ladies of the USA!
Wow! This one was my favorite of this series. What very interesting folks. Also shows, that the 'scandals' and bad talk of the current royal family really looks like 'angels' compared to the Royals 'back in the day. And some really progressive and wonderful women. Again.... Really loved this one.
These queens were strong and their offspring gave them the future
Rip to all the queens
These are my favourites besides the War of the Roses queens! Shame this series is almost over. Can you do a video on Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile?
I could be wrong, but isn't Queen Victoria a Hanoverian monarch as well? So, shouldn't Prince Albert also be part of the Hanoverian section because Victoria was the sovereign? Much like how Princess Anne's husband was talked about in the Stuart section because the ruling house at the time was the Stuarts.
Yes, she was the last in the House of Hanover, so Albert should have been in this one.
That's what I was thinking. Victoria was the last of the Hanovers.
I think it's fitting that he's not in this one. Victoria was a Hanover but her marriage changed the House Name and it's a straight line from her to the present. She's often lumped with her descendants as the first 'modern monarch'. Plus it looks like she's keeping the videos at 30 min.
@@LusiaEyre No, her marriage didn't change the house name. Her son inherited his father's surname and that's when the house name changed.
Prince Albert was from Greece.
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Angel: Hey, You see up there? Thats your new home.
LOL 😆
These videos always brighten my day. Thanks Lindsay!
Hi Lindsay!!
Hey there Anne! How have you been doing?
Hi mom!
Guess who’s back? Back again? Bloody Mary’s back, tell a friend 😎
Hmm....as long as you don’t burn some poor Protestants your majesty
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KAIYA!! I already told you that I wouldn’t do that anymore! Lol 😂
@@lucifermorningstar-k2f I know! Just making extra extra backup precautions for the extra backup precautions for the backup precautions for the precautions
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Now that you have done English and British consorts, I think you should do a series on Scottish consorts as well, before the Union under James VI and I.
From Gruoch to Bothwell, then? Including Anne of Denmark would be more proper, if redundant, but then again so would including every consort up to Queen Anne, as it was only after her Scotland ceased to be an independent kingdom.
@@jeandehuit5385 Well, it’s true that England and Scotland were independent states until the reign of Queen Anne, but they shared the same monarch after Elizabeth I’s death. That is why in her videos on English and British consorts, she actually covered Scottish consorts from Anne of Denmark onward. So I guess it would be better to start from Gruoch and end with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who was the last Scottish consort but was not an English consort simultaneously.
By the way, it’d be good if she did a series on the reigning kings and queens of Scotland, similar to the one she did for England. It’d be really interesting to watch.
@@keivanfarzanehkari8045 Bothwell would be the last Scots consort by these metrics. Mary, queen of Scots married him after she murdered Darnley.
@@jeandehuit5385 Well, Bothwell was never raised to the rank of king consort or prince consort, but yes, technically he would be the last Scottish consort before the two countries started sharing one monarch.
I really love when you do long videos like this one, good job!☺️
Absolutely fascinating. Love the way you weave these great stories together for us, Lindsay! They could not have come at a better time for us all. Thankyou! ...love the woman Caroline was!
Charlotte is my 13th cousin 5 times removed, so connecting me to British royalty! Which then connects to my native Norway through Maud of Wales (17th cousin once removed) marrying who would become King Haakon VII (18th cousin)! I am also 7th cousin to our current crown prince's wife, so I am 7th cousin once removed to who will be Norway's first proper queen regnant (I don't count Margrethe)! The world is small.
So good to see my descendants thriving ❤️, take that Elizabeth 😒
hey 😩👌
@@ferdinand6187 My son 😩
James VI & I: Where’s my mum?
Wish I'd had a line of descendants to stick it to Mary Tudor. Oh well.
the painting shown at 3:43 is actually of Henrietta Howard, one of Caroline’s women of the bedchamber and also one of George II’s mistresses.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Howard,_Countess_of_Suffolk
what henrietta last name is howard
so henretta last name is howard cause funny my last name is howard
Can I please say: It was wonderful to hear, how good the speaker said Meiningen! I lived my whole life here in this little town called Meiningen (in Thuringia) and I was pleased to hear, how good the speaker said the name, that it was real german pronunciation. In my childhood we visited the place, where Adelain (ger.: Adelheit) lived (it is almost in the center of our town) and there allways was a young woman, who played her and ever was dressed as in her famous portrait. But also the stands a doll, who looks like her and wearing a blue velvet dress, if the actress isn't there. All in all I adored her so much. Thank you for making me a proud citizen of my mothertown❤❤❤
I read a book about Adelaide when I was a young girl, and grew up to name my daughter after her. One day I want to go to Meiningen.
Wait so a my state's capital city is named after a queen? Nice
Caroline and the kings relationship was actually very cute , stating that they are ROYALS and royals don't often have good relationship . Like when she was on her death bed they must love each other so much claiming that Caroline gave permission for him to remarry but he denied.
Poor George 111 suffered from a condition known as porphyria. This can cause psychiatric symptoms including hallucinations and psychosis.
Very interesting video. I enjoyed it enormously. 👍😃
Thank you Lindsay!💕
Thank you for explaining Queen Charlotte's heritage. And Charlotte, NC is nicknamed "the Queen City."
Wonderful series! I can't find enough information on Queen Alexandra. I am looking forward to seeing your next video. 🤴👸👸👸🤴
Phew!Didnt have to wait until the morning
This is a good video
I've appreciated and welcome the knowledge you've graced each of us, I'm sure! Thank you, Lindsay! More please!
I am enthralled 🎉 I have been watching for hours and have enjoyed every single moment. Thank you so much for this marvelous presentation.
I never understood why the Hanover kings and queens hated their heirs, it seems like it's a tradition to be horrible to each others or something
Jealousy.
26:40 Henry VIII referred to them as “ducky’s” 🤣
U should do one of France , Russia ,Spain like to know more about that!!!
Spain would be a monster, as you'd have to cover the Kingdoms of Leon, Pamplona (later Navarre), Castile, & Aragon. Oftentimes one or two were in a personal union, but most of the time they weren't. Even so, all of them were related to begin with & kept intermarrying until basically the present-day.
Portugal would be a separate story, as they did not ultimately become a part of the Spanish union, but they were on the same level as all the kingdoms above (e.g. they were related to & intermarried with the Castilian & Aragonese royal families), so it would be disingenuous to leave them out IMO.
@@jeandehuit5385 that true but still be nice to know!!!
About the "black" Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz:
To get a perspective: imagine tracing all your ancestors 15 generations back, you get abt 32.768 ppl (ideally, in reality it's less than that). Now imagine these are 32.767 white ppl and one black person and when ppl find out about this, they call YOU black.
Totally absurd.
I mean...it could be due to her appearance particularly her lips. Im black and I can usually tell when people are "passing" by certain features.
Not to mention that her "black" ancestor was moor, and moors were mostly north African berbers, and with the English coming in little contact with North Africans, they would assume that she was black, when there is in fact little chance of that
And racist.
Plus "Moor" doesn't mean "black". It means she had some Arab origins. That's a fantasy propagated by (some) African Americans in order to cultutally appropriate other cultutes instead of being proud of their own, so you see them wearing turbans and praising the populations that enslaved their anchestors for a millennia and have not really stop doing so.
Look at multiple paintings of hers. She was as white as snow.
Why are we STILL giving credence to the idea that Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was biracial in any way?
exactly, it's 15 generations before her, plus it is just allegedly/a rumor
In those times that what she was considered. The one drop rule was created by Europeans, and their descendants. She had no choice in her bloodline. Even in that painting, she has some Black features.
@@AuthorLHollingsworth Absolutely nobody considered her black. I would be surprised if anyone in her family or her husband’s family knew or even cared who her 13x great-grandmother even was. She was a white princess from Germany.
Why not? Good if she was biracial!
If she was her painted features were played down which is what the painters did in that era. Yet her African looks can still be seen regardless
Yet there is written history what she really looked like..which was of African blood.
Any way she was what she was and her King loved her!
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The king family knew just like Queen Elizabeth knows...
Yes she is considered a half black moor!
Hypocrite
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You're a remarkable storyteller, @lindsayholiday!! I'm a total history geek! The history of the English/British monarchs and the salacious tales including their significant others...
Hanoverian Soap Operas!!
This series is top-notch...I will be genuinely sad when it ends. Though, I'm sure you have plenty of historical ideas up your sleeve!!
Caroline and George II do not get enough press.
I'm really glad that Lindsey addressed the "biracial" conversation about Queen Charlotte. Her (alleged) black ancesstress lived and died 500 years before Charlotte was even born so I with less than 1% of such DNA, she could hardly be called Britain's first biracial Queen. 🤦🏼♀️
Europeans considered her bi-racial due to the one drop rule that they created. She didnt have a choice in what people thought. Either way, she was beautiful. Period!
@@AuthorLHollingsworth The One-Drop-Rule is an American concept actually, not European.And that rule didn't become a thing until the early 20th century, long after her death.
Who gives a fuck what race she was. She was German as the rest of them by language, culture and tradition. She could have been absolutely black and still German. Being black in appearance does not make you black. No difference to a lion bred in captivity and raised by humans...it becomes a lion in appearance only.
@@AuthorLHollingsworth That if they even knew.
No, nobody considered her biracial and virtually no one does today, other than dome American afrocentrists.
Those Hanoverians were really something, weren’t they? The family feuds🤭
Sooooo, was Great Britain ever ruled by an actual British Monarch? The present House of Windsor is actually German too.
Most of the monarchs, were born and raised in England, spoke English and were culturally English so how else could they be more British?
I would love a series about the children of George III and Charlotte 😊
Im from Germany and I really like these videos because its always interesting to hear how people pronounce german towns or areas in english
Or mispronounce them.
My name is Caroline. I absolutely love old English history. I especially loved this episode!!
I absolutely LOVE your videos and CAN NOT wait for the next one ❤️❤️
Thank you so much for sharing this most interesting and educational video! I learned so so much today, and I thought I knew everything about the Hanover dynasty! You should write a book about these consorts! I think it would make for a very interesting history book. Well done indeed!
Love waking up in the morning and seeing that you posted!! I know it’s gonna be a good day while I get ready in the morning watching your new video :)
starting to see a pattern... all about father-son hate!
And mother-son! Don’t forget Victoria and her eldest son, Albert, later Edward VII
@@SungSNam Caroline of Ansbach & George II had a mutual dislike for their son, Frederick Lewis. Supposedly Caroline asked a courtier if it wouldn't be possible to get somebody else to knock-up her daughter-in-law in the event her son couldn't do it.
The courtier replied it was *technically* possible, but no man would agree to do it, given that once the 'heir' was of age, he would likely try to murder his biological father to suppress his illegitimacy. Caroline relented & allowed nature to take its course.
:intense flashbacks:
ruler-son owo
I love learning about these women! I look forward to more videos Lindsay!
Can you do Ivan the Terrible's 6 (8 actually) wives?
Can you imagine being pregnant and having babies so much, Back then they were probably more ok with the mistresses to give them a freakin break lol. lordy
Thank you so much.
I am learning very well because of you 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎❤️❤️
George II & Carolines children were the first to receive vaccines in the England.
If interested in learning more about Caroline, a fictionalized version of her is featured in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle books. Amazing woman, raised by amazing women.
25:06 It should be Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Having to marry a 1st cousin that is your mother's or father's nephew or niece is just DISGUSTING.
There ya go Sofia.
It happened all the time -- and many times were very happy. Remember most of these cousins barely knew each other and were more like strangers.
Guess karma struck George I.
Sorry correct me if im wrong but isnt queen victoria a hanoverian and shouldnt her husband Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha should be in this video because he himself is a consort?
Hi Lindsay
Excellent video! I learned a lot of new information!
i would love it if you did a video about all the french monarchs. I really have the slightest idea about them.
George IV: I had just ten years on the throne, do you remember thaaaat? No all that you remember is... I was really faaaaaat... 🎶
I almost got cancer, because of the pronounciation of Meiningen.
Just like the other german names and royale houses. 😅
you should make a video on queen charlotte’s children ! there were so many and i think it would be so cool to see
I love all of your videos, they are so interesting!! Keep up the good work! ♥️
These monarchs aren’t talked about lately! Thanks to this video 😂
Yeah, we never got to hear about their brawles, which is sad.
@@SungSNam true
@@Hello-yq8kk I wish I was there to see it tho, sounds exciting!
is only rumoured that she has black ancestry there's no evidence
Yes, she's constantly parroted around for speculative ancestry. In the 20th Century, the 'theory' was the Portuguese mistress she descends from somehow had 'plausible' descent from antiquity. In the 21st Century, she's somehow morphed into having 'black' ancestry.
The truth is it's an unknown. None of the theories hold much water yet both are parroted around by ppl. who wish to seem 'smart' on matters of genealogy. I doubt Charlotte herself cared much about such ancestry, if she was even aware of it, which I also doubt.
@@jeandehuit5385 You're right, I mean that supposed ancestor was five hundred years prior to her, and srsly, how many generations, how many centuries have to pass before ppl stop calling someone black bcs of that one non-white ancestor, it's ridiculous.
To get a perspective: imagine tracing all your ancestors 15 generations back, you get abt 32.768 ppl (ideally, in reality it's less than that). Now imagine these are 32.767 white ppl and one black person and when ppl find out about this, they call YOU black. Totally absurd.
There are literally fully Black people present in Britisg history, such as the God daughter of Queen Victoria. Why they had to choose Charlotte, who had maybe 1 Black ancestor from centuries ago is strange.
@@desonmonde4086 one possible explanation for this is that a (supposed) black ancestor, however far back, provides you with a set of genetics that flow into your family, thus "tainting" it, while a godchild usually is not genetically related to you, so it's okay-ish.
I know, it's a horribly racist mindset and ppl really should have moved on from it. It's 2021 after all.
Charlotte sounds similar to Queen Victoria in that she didn’t want her daughters to get married, but 15 pregnancies?? These consorts, I feel for them, because they knew it was required that they produce at least an heir & a spare. Yet the only reason they were having so many back in the day, was because health & survival was a very REAL thing. When miscarriages, stillborns & children dying young was a very regular occurrence. It was sad, but something that was almost expected with the times being wha they were from a medical/healthcare perspective. At least Kate Middleton made sure she got 3 out in a timely manner, so people didn’t have a reason to call her “waity Katie” again.
Very well done, as always. I love your videos. God bless you, my friend!
The best part of my day 😊