I have lived with worsening chronic pain for the past 12 years. It completely changes your life. As I watched this, I was so sad for what he went through. Great power and riches mean very little if you don’t have your health.
I've had chronic, and like you worsening, pain for 32 years in July. The statement you made about money meaning nothing if you don't have your health is so very true. Take care of yourself.
@@marykeniston5264 you are correct, but lack of money doesn’t change the Sam facts. Money doesn’t make you happy, but poverty doesn’t make you happy either .
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at 26 years old (Now I'm 32). I'm almost sure he had it too, the sympthons he had are very typical of Cronh's disease. If not treated it can be very dangerous, I know by experience.
Crohn's runs in my father's family as does IBS. My brother and I both have IBS. His son has full blown Crohn's and required surgery in his early 20's because of it. The symptoms of Prince Albert matched my nephew's identically. Victoria was a disaster as a queen regent and as a wife and mother. It was her attitude and lack of compassion that led to her husband dying, not her son..
Might it not also have been ulcerative colitis? I used to go out with a guy who had it, and he reported similar symptoms around the time he was preparing to quit his job, pull up stakes, move 400 miles away, and start doing music full-time. Yeah, Prince Albert's stress was due to issues of national and international importance, but still, stress is stress. And my friend died in his early 50s of colon cancer. Those intestinal conditions are no joke.
@@maggiesatterfield2402 Victoria was never a Queen "regent". She was the Queen Regnant. I'm pretty sure she didn't kill him. Crohns wasn't even a known disease until 1932, therefore, it couldn't be diagnosed nor treated during Albert's life. Albert, by the way, chose to work himself into the ground.
@@maggiesatterfield2402 A bit of a stretch to blame Victoria for Albert's death. His mentor said himself that if Albert ever got seriously ill he would not survive it because he watched him grow up and recognised that Albert had periodical health issues. Victoria definitely had problems, but Albert would have died whether she was attentive or not because the doctors at that time didn't even know his true diagnosis, not to speak of treatment that would have prevented such an early death.
I met an elderly gentleman from Canada who had left england at a young age. He said that his father had been a body guard for prince Albert. His father said that Prince Albert was an alcoholic and had a double that occasionally stood in for him. Of course anyone can claim anything but this particular gentleman had a very brilliant mind and could not endure a liar or someone who claimed to know more than they actually did. I believe him. And I am very much a skeptical person.
I tend to think that Albert was very unhappy. He was never accepted by most of the British people, Victoria was both demanding and self-centered (not to mention unhappy about being so often pregnant). She was also very jealous and grudged the time he spent with his daughter Vicki. I think it was a case of Victoria feeling insecure and Albert feeling smothered. He did love Victoria but I don't think he was emotionally equipped to love her in the way she needed. Albert and Victoria both had serious issues from parents who were gone or dead, or unfeeling. Albert must have been very disappointed that he worked so hard for his new country and never really got credit or respect.
I think the problems you listed were certainly issues early in the marriage but had largely sorted themselves out by the time of Albert's death when the public did by this time accept him as Victoria's consort and recognised what a huge asset he had been to both her and to the country.
I also think Victoria and Albert's relationship wasn't the love match it is often portrayed as. It always seemed very one-sided to me. Victoria was in love ... Albert was doing his duty. He was just doing his duty I don't believe he loved her at all. One time, when she suggested using contraceptives, he told her he wouldn't lie with her as s*x was for reproduction, not fun. He told her that once she hit menopause there was no need for them to sleep with each other. Albert was clearly not interested in Victoria, and Victoria acts like an obsessive stalker. She was clearly deranged and a pervert to match that. He had a lot to deal with and to me he chose royalty over happiness and his health.
People make the mistake of portraying Queen Victoria as a shrew. The truth is, Queen Victoria, during most of hers & Alberts time together, was either pregnant or recovering from child birth. She gave birth to *NINE* babies! Queen Victoria was a female ruler in a world of men who would have loved to kill her off before she became Queen, then had several attempts made to assassinate her, which were paid assassins in attempts to grab power by getting her out of the way. Add to this, Albert was a very masculine man, he was very controlling, he was constantly trying to make decisions that were not his to make. Victoria railed against Albert's constant efforts to control her. Even in todays world, any woman who is, say, a CEO of a company, doing that job while married to a man who constantly tries to control her, to do her job for her, make decisions that are not his to make, behind her back. Add to this, giving birth to *NINE* babies. Then? The woman has to deal with assassination attempts. Then, she gets labels slapped on her for not allowing her husband to control her. That was Queen Victorias life.
The mention of mood swings related to her menstrual cycle is surely overplayed. To have nine children inside twenty years doesn't leave much time for menstrual regularity. There is a connection, I think its used as a lazy excuse by those who don't analyse the full picture of an individual. Dying of typhoid was better publicity than mentioning bodily malfunctions in an era that tried to hide all bodily functions as being in bad taste.
@@michellebyrom6551 Add to this the rough start in life that Prince Consort Albert had. His mother was only 16 when she was forced to marry her 33 year old cousin. In her journals she described the brutal assaults by Alberts father on her. She only had sexual intercourse with him until her second son, Albert, was born. The coveted "heir & a spare" that titled male aristocrats felt they needed. Alberts father was well known for his brutal treatment of women. his nickname "Bestie" was not a flattering one. It means "Beast" as in a brutal, uncivilized, animal. He also was known to leave bruises and deep cuts on the women he patronized. Also on his first & second wives. Alberts mother ran away from his father as soon as she could, knowing, she would not be allowed to see her children again. Albert knew this about his father. It was why he tried so hard to be a moral, virtuous person.
I agree! Albert was emotionally abusive to Victoria and was manipulating her under the advice of their shared Uncle Leopold. Part of that strategy was keeping her pregnant as much as possible because Albert took over more of the royal duties when she was having her miserable pregnancies. Even the fact that she liked sex so much was probably a strategy Albert used to keep coming back to get pregnant again. She was certainly no angel herself, but as much as she mourned Albert when he died, I also think it freed her to finally rule in her own stead. Her male "favorites" after his death were men who were almost unfailingly deferential to her while being flirtatious and catering to her every whim. She certainly seemed to learn a lesson from the relationship with Albert.
I've read that his pulse was always weak, at birth and beyond. He was easily fatigued. I too think he had an intestional disease. But with the fever, insomnia, diarrhea, his symptoms were consistent with Typhoid. His Portuguese cousins had been visiting him shortly before their own deaths from Typhoid.
Everyone puts Victoria on a pedestal, she was a horrible person, manipulative, domineering and demanding obedience from everyone around her. Her children feared and hated her, she controlled every aspect of their lives from birth to marriage to death.
I would have to say if you’ve been ill since you were a child, I wouldn’t call that being a hypochondriac. He WAS ill his whole life. I’d say he did a pretty bang up job working through it. Poor guy.
I had peritonitis in 2018 and even with today's antibiotics it was no picnic. I had to be life-flighted to a hospital in a larger city and the pain was tremendous. Poor Albert. Crohn's must be terrible.
Peritonitis is horrible! I had it in 2012. Friends told me that I called 911 myself, I have no recollection of that. I was in a coma 8 days I think. I was in ICU for a month. It was really terrible. So I feel your pain. And all the time someone suffering with very poor medical care, had to be horrible. Albert had to have suffered unimaginably from Crohns. I have a friend battling it now.
Wow! Victoria sounds like she was a miserable person to live with. Another account I heard was that she was very dismissive and neglectful of her youngest son, Leopold, who also had health issues, most notably, hemophilia. And she blamed her eldest son, Edward, for his father's death.
I will be doing another video on queen victorias relationship with her children so I will cover those accusations. thank you for your comment and for watching 😊
She was very difficult to deal with, but I do have some sympathy for how she got that way. Victoria's early life was difficult by royal standards, and it left a huge mark on her personality. Her father died before she was a year old, leaving her with her mother and her mother's ambitious (maybe) lover who saw Victoria as a vehicle to gain power. She was raised in isolation and without friends, which she never forgave her mother for. Even her being "hysterical" when her mother died is understandable to an extent. She was likely mourning the relationship and mother she never had, rather than the one she did. It's a common reaction for people raised in similar situations. When it comes to Albert, I think she saw him as the first person she could truly depend on to be totally focused on her and not their own ambition or use for her. Unfortunately, Albert *did* have many ambitions and used his wife's dependence on him to manipulate her into doing what he wanted. As she got older, she probably began to sense that he was manipulating her and became suspicious of his illnesses, even if her suspicions were unfounded in that instance. Albert and their shared Uncle Leopold were using trying to influence her as a ruler, and did so successfully. Albert was constantly correcting and berating his wife and they fought as hard as they loved. The way she thought about and treated her children is not defensible, however. She emotionally relied on them even more than she had on Albert. Poor Beatrice got the worst of it, but all of them were scarred by their mother's selfishness and sharp tongue. Hurt people hurt people, as they say.
His being a hypochondriac is most likely what allowed all of their 9 children to survive as he ensured the nursery was sterile for young children which wasn’t truly the norm for that time period. Clearly he also had autoimmune issues and that is something major to have dealt with during that time. Insomnia and reactivity to stress is a symptom of autoimmune conditions.
Perhaps that’s why Victoria mourned for so long, she maybe felt responsible for his premature death? A member of the royal family taking responsibility for a spouses death you say! No, your right, they wouldn’t take responsibility for anything.
I wonder if Victoria always insisted Albert’s clothing be laid out each day and dressing only in black after his death was more out of guilt over not acknowledging his medical ailments rather than grieving the loss of a partner. Just my opinion, don’t come for me.
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Even with the possibility of Crohn's, I wonder if Prince Albert may have had coeliac disease? That would also explain the GI issues, and poorly managed coeliac disease wreaks havoc on the immune system and can also cause awful mental health problems including (but not limited to) severe depression... 🤔
She was like my Welsh inlaws, hated going for dinner at their house as in mid winter they had l the windows open and the doors to AIR the house! I sat there shivering one Saturday and got up and said to my then boyfriend, I am going home. He said why? I said if I stay I will get pneumonia! His parents were not pleased but I noticed next time I came doors and windows were closed 😂
It is sad to learn about the health ailments that Prince Albert had to endure during his lifetime. Like all the Hanoverian consorts, he had a lot to deal with. He is a good example of a devoted royal consort. Could you please do a video about the society and culture of the Regency era?
Goodness me, I had no idea about these long term issues of Prince Albert’s health,not the best choice for the bloodline perhaps. Queen Victoria, not untypical, was famously self unaware vis-a-vis her relationship with her mother, whom she cast out of her life & only regretted shortly before her mother’s death. So, along with her libidinous demands on the well endowed Albert her profound depression & blaming her son Edward might be also be accompanied by her realization of her own intolerance & contribution to Albert’s death as she remembered how much he suffered. Too little & much too late!
Although Gillian Gill's biography "We two" implies that the relationship between Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort was a toxic, where he managed to manipulate her; Helen Rappaport's study "A magnificent obsession" introduces us to a queen deeply obsessed with her husband, to the point of fueling jealousy of the paternal relationship from he to had with her own daughters! I find the view of Albert as a despot to the women unfair. If it had been, he would not have allowed his daughters to receive the same education that his sons received in all areas of knowledge. As for the queen's obsession with mourning, her smart daughter Vicky observed that the queen "liked the suffering after a death." Regarding the exaggerated mourning that the queen had after the death of her mother, the Duchess of Kent; Albert observed that the queen: "she lived in the past, in the future but not in the present". By the way, Albert started to take care of the affairs of state because the queen had a psychotic period in which she saw people's faces consumed by worms and coffins floating in her path. Absolutely all of his contemporaries remembered the madness of King George and feared that Queen Victoria had inherited this disease. For this reason, the politicians tacitly agreed that Albert should take over her duties. If he became a workaholic, he was basically to escape his wife's obsessive demands of him.
I have always low-key wondered if Albert may have exaggerated some of his symptoms at times to get a break from his wife. Victoria was quite *physically* demanding on him (if you know what I mean 😉) while Albert was said to be prudish by nature. Obviously he did have some very real health conditions, especially in the last few years, but I also think some of it was his version of "honey, I have a headache tonight". For some reason their marriage is portrayed as perfect, but in reality, they were both emotionally abusive to each other and seemed to have a strange mixture of attraction and contempt. I guess that's par for the course for royals though.
Interesting theory that does make some sense. Although Albert was prudish, he wasn't with his wife. He strongly believed that sex within marriage was fine, hence the nine kids! Victoria did seem to be more keen though, I agree that their marriage wasn't all that great especially when put into the context of our 21st century sensibilities. It was passionate, but volatile.
My husband suffered from Crohn's Disease, and ended up having his small intestine removed. It was absolutely Horrific!!!! You diagnose it from XRays, diarrhea, stomach pain, fever, chills etc NOT AUTOPSIES
The royals in Britian, both now and during Albert's time have immense workloads. This could not have been good for the Prince Consort. He had a poor immune system. And abdominal issues which had no treatment in Victorian times. I am wondering if he might have been afflicted with lupus with his various symtoms? I have Lupus and the symptoms like extreme fatigue, cold extremities, stomach issues, additional autoimmune diseases and impaired immune system sounds an awful like many of the symtoms I suffer with.
Based on her behavior and treatment of others, Victoria was what we would now call a narcissist. She didn't treat her children or her mother any better than she did poor Albert. Though her mother was a terrible person, by all accounts.
Very interesting thank you - sounds like Albert was poorly for most of his life. I would love to know more about Lady Margaret De Beauchamp the mother of Margaret Beaufort please as she was my x 17 Great Grandmother (My G Grandfather x17 was Sir Oliver St John who was not Margaret Beaufort's father). Terrific vids thank you 🙏💎
Victoria did not like children or having them. Her husband Albert suffered her mood swings and temper. There were times when he communicated with her but way of notes. He died of crohns desease.
I would asked for my own room if I was Albert now I’m thinking was she just mourning that long and dressed in black because she’s low key guilty of not helping him and indirectly killing him
Okay. It all males sense now, her dramatic lifelong "mourning.". It was more like guilt. No doubt she was sorry afterwards but I find it very difficult to pity anyone who lost a grandchild and literally tells the mother, her own daughter that her own grief was greater. Bullcrap. I used to love the story of Victoria and Albert and their love together. But the more I learn the more it is obvious, Queen Victoria only loved herself. One does not treat her loved ones with such passive aggressive disdain and really love them.
What a couple!! He, suffering from several health issues and she from hemophilia... And still they could conceived 9 children!! But, the most tragic matter is that all the blame and responsability of Albert's death was put on poor Edward VII!! I think that is why he was so miserable during his life and the way he could cope with it was living so wild... I apologize if you feel offended by my opinion. In some occassions there are people who answer you back... 🤷♀️
M6 goodness! Sounds like PA had a type A personality- perfectionist, controlling. Possibly Chrones disease. Also maybe had some respiratory issues like asthma & what is known today as IBS - irritable bowel syndrome. Added to his stress from these illnesses was the constant walking on eggshells around QV - his wife, who is known to have a volatile Temper. May he RIP.
@David Wilcox…I got a chuckle out of your remark. I can remember as a very small child that my Grandpa smoked a pipe…and his favorite, other than the fancy cherry scented tobacco he would receive as a gift on special occasions was “Prince Albert in the can.” 😂😂
@David Wilcox…to be honest, I don’t know if they even make that brand of tobacco anymore. Neither my husband nor I smoke and we don’t know anyone who smokes a pipe.
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I have lived with worsening chronic pain for the past 12 years. It completely changes your life. As I watched this, I was so sad for what he went through. Great power and riches mean very little if you don’t have your health.
Your words are very true. Best wishes.🌸🌺🌷🌷🌸
I've had chronic, and like you worsening, pain for 32 years in July. The statement you made about money meaning nothing if you don't have your health is so very true. Take care of yourself.
U R very right
@@marykeniston5264 you are correct, but lack of money doesn’t change the Sam facts. Money doesn’t make you happy, but poverty doesn’t make you happy either .
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at 26 years old (Now I'm 32). I'm almost sure he had it too, the sympthons he had are very typical of Cronh's disease. If not treated it can be very dangerous, I know by experience.
Crohn's runs in my father's family as does IBS. My brother and I both have IBS. His son has full blown Crohn's and required surgery in his early 20's because of it. The symptoms of Prince Albert matched my nephew's identically. Victoria was a disaster as a queen regent and as a wife and mother. It was her attitude and lack of compassion that led to her husband dying, not her son..
Might it not also have been ulcerative colitis? I used to go out with a guy who had it, and he reported similar symptoms around the time he was preparing to quit his job, pull up stakes, move 400 miles away, and start doing music full-time. Yeah, Prince Albert's stress was due to issues of national and international importance, but still, stress is stress. And my friend died in his early 50s of colon cancer. Those intestinal conditions are no joke.
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@@maggiesatterfield2402 Victoria was never a Queen "regent". She was the Queen Regnant. I'm pretty sure she didn't kill him. Crohns wasn't even a known disease until 1932, therefore, it couldn't be diagnosed nor treated during Albert's life. Albert, by the way, chose to work himself into the ground.
@@maggiesatterfield2402 A bit of a stretch to blame Victoria for Albert's death. His mentor said himself that if Albert ever got seriously ill he would not survive it because he watched him grow up and recognised that Albert had periodical health issues. Victoria definitely had problems, but Albert would have died whether she was attentive or not because the doctors at that time didn't even know his true diagnosis, not to speak of treatment that would have prevented such an early death.
I knew nothing of Albert's ill health until this. What a hero to achieve all he did whilst battling such conditions!
Kudos to Prince Albert for being a amazing loving father to his children
@@HORSEYANIME2024 SOME POLITICIANS WERE CONCERNED THAT HE WANTED TO BE TREATED AS A KING, AND INFLUENCE POLITICS MORE. NOT JUST A CONSORT.
A perforated bowel (possibly from Diverticulitis or Crones Disease) most likely led to the death of Prince Albert.
I met an elderly gentleman from Canada who had left england at a young age. He said that his father had been a body guard for prince Albert. His father said that Prince Albert was an alcoholic and had a double that occasionally stood in for him. Of course anyone can claim anything but this particular gentleman had a very brilliant mind and could not endure a liar or someone who claimed to know more than they actually did. I believe him. And I am very much a skeptical person.
I tend to think that Albert was very unhappy. He was never accepted by most of the British people, Victoria was both demanding and self-centered (not to mention unhappy about being so often pregnant). She was also very jealous and grudged the time he spent with his daughter Vicki. I think it was a case of Victoria feeling insecure and Albert feeling smothered. He did love Victoria but I don't think he was emotionally equipped to love her in the way she needed. Albert and Victoria both had serious issues from parents who were gone or dead, or unfeeling. Albert must have been very disappointed that he worked so hard for his new country and never really got credit or respect.
It's sad he only got credit after his death.
I think the problems you listed were certainly issues early in the marriage but had largely sorted themselves out by the time of Albert's death when the public did by this time accept him as Victoria's consort and recognised what a huge asset he had been to both her and to the country.
I also think Victoria and Albert's relationship wasn't the love match it is often portrayed as. It always seemed very one-sided to me. Victoria was in love ... Albert was doing his duty. He was just doing his duty I don't believe he loved her at all. One time, when she suggested using contraceptives, he told her he wouldn't lie with her as s*x was for reproduction, not fun. He told her that once she hit menopause there was no need for them to sleep with each other. Albert was clearly not interested in Victoria, and Victoria acts like an obsessive stalker. She was clearly deranged and a pervert to match that. He had a lot to deal with and to me he chose royalty over happiness and his health.
People make the mistake of portraying Queen Victoria as a shrew. The truth is, Queen Victoria, during most of hers & Alberts time together, was either pregnant or recovering from child birth.
She gave birth to *NINE* babies!
Queen Victoria was a female ruler in a world of men who would have loved to kill her off before she became Queen, then had several attempts made to assassinate her, which were paid assassins in attempts to grab power by getting her out of the way.
Add to this, Albert was a very masculine man, he was very controlling, he was constantly trying to make decisions that were not his to make. Victoria railed against Albert's constant efforts to control her.
Even in todays world, any woman who is, say, a CEO of a company, doing that job while married to a man who constantly tries to control her, to do her job for her, make decisions that are not his to make, behind her back.
Add to this, giving birth to *NINE* babies.
Then?
The woman has to deal with assassination attempts. Then, she gets labels slapped on her for not allowing her husband to control her.
That was Queen Victorias life.
The mention of mood swings related to her menstrual cycle is surely overplayed. To have nine children inside twenty years doesn't leave much time for menstrual regularity. There is a connection, I think its used as a lazy excuse by those who don't analyse the full picture of an individual. Dying of typhoid was better publicity than mentioning bodily malfunctions in an era that tried to hide all bodily functions as being in bad taste.
@@michellebyrom6551 Add to this the rough start in life that Prince Consort Albert had.
His mother was only 16 when she was forced to marry her 33 year old cousin. In her journals she described the brutal assaults by Alberts father on her.
She only had sexual intercourse with him until her second son, Albert, was born. The coveted "heir & a spare" that titled male aristocrats felt they needed.
Alberts father was well known for his brutal treatment of women. his nickname "Bestie" was not a flattering one. It means "Beast" as in a brutal, uncivilized, animal. He also was known to leave bruises and deep cuts on the women he patronized. Also on his first & second wives. Alberts mother ran away from his father as soon as she could, knowing, she would not be allowed to see her children again.
Albert knew this about his father. It was why he tried so hard to be a moral, virtuous person.
I agree! Albert was emotionally abusive to Victoria and was manipulating her under the advice of their shared Uncle Leopold. Part of that strategy was keeping her pregnant as much as possible because Albert took over more of the royal duties when she was having her miserable pregnancies. Even the fact that she liked sex so much was probably a strategy Albert used to keep coming back to get pregnant again. She was certainly no angel herself, but as much as she mourned Albert when he died, I also think it freed her to finally rule in her own stead. Her male "favorites" after his death were men who were almost unfailingly deferential to her while being flirtatious and catering to her every whim. She certainly seemed to learn a lesson from the relationship with Albert.
@@michellebyrom6551 that’s what I thought when she mentioned the mood swings.
She was much more than a Shrew. Don't put her on a pedestal or make her out to be a victim in any way. She WAS a Bitch!
I've read that his pulse was always weak, at birth and beyond. He was easily fatigued. I too think he had an intestional disease. But with the fever, insomnia, diarrhea, his symptoms were consistent with Typhoid. His Portuguese cousins had been visiting him shortly before their own deaths from Typhoid.
Everyone puts Victoria on a pedestal, she was a horrible person, manipulative, domineering and demanding obedience from everyone around her. Her children feared and hated her, she controlled every aspect of their lives from birth to marriage to death.
I would have to say if you’ve been ill since you were a child, I wouldn’t call that being a hypochondriac. He WAS ill his whole life. I’d say he did a pretty bang up job working through it. Poor guy.
I had peritonitis in 2018 and even with today's antibiotics it was no picnic. I had to be life-flighted to a hospital in a larger city and the pain was tremendous. Poor Albert. Crohn's must be terrible.
I've had peritonitis.my god your right the pain was indescribable.having children was a doddle compared to that
Peritonitis is horrible! I had it in 2012. Friends told me that I called 911 myself, I have no recollection of that. I was in a coma 8 days I think. I was in ICU for a month. It was really terrible. So I feel your pain. And all the time someone suffering with very poor medical care, had to be horrible. Albert had to have suffered unimaginably from Crohns. I have a friend battling it now.
@@janehall2720 I hope all is well no and you have no ill effects. So much pain. Poor Albert!
same here, I can deal with a lot of pain but never that kind of pain. and now deal with issues from scarring. Its a B*tch
Wow! Victoria sounds like she was a miserable person to live with. Another account I heard was that she was very dismissive and neglectful of her youngest son, Leopold, who also had health issues, most notably, hemophilia. And she blamed her eldest son, Edward, for his father's death.
I will be doing another video on queen victorias relationship with her children so I will cover those accusations. thank you for your comment and for watching 😊
Victoria was downright evil to ALL of her kids! She was a horrible mother, and was only a mother AFTER she was a Queen.
She survived eight attempts on her life!!!!!!!
Have a look at laws she signed regarding women of the night,another insight to the personality.
She was very difficult to deal with, but I do have some sympathy for how she got that way. Victoria's early life was difficult by royal standards, and it left a huge mark on her personality. Her father died before she was a year old, leaving her with her mother and her mother's ambitious (maybe) lover who saw Victoria as a vehicle to gain power. She was raised in isolation and without friends, which she never forgave her mother for. Even her being "hysterical" when her mother died is understandable to an extent. She was likely mourning the relationship and mother she never had, rather than the one she did. It's a common reaction for people raised in similar situations.
When it comes to Albert, I think she saw him as the first person she could truly depend on to be totally focused on her and not their own ambition or use for her. Unfortunately, Albert *did* have many ambitions and used his wife's dependence on him to manipulate her into doing what he wanted. As she got older, she probably began to sense that he was manipulating her and became suspicious of his illnesses, even if her suspicions were unfounded in that instance. Albert and their shared Uncle Leopold were using trying to influence her as a ruler, and did so successfully. Albert was constantly correcting and berating his wife and they fought as hard as they loved.
The way she thought about and treated her children is not defensible, however. She emotionally relied on them even more than she had on Albert. Poor Beatrice got the worst of it, but all of them were scarred by their mother's selfishness and sharp tongue. Hurt people hurt people, as they say.
His being a hypochondriac is most likely what allowed all of their 9 children to survive as he ensured the nursery was sterile for young children which wasn’t truly the norm for that time period. Clearly he also had autoimmune issues and that is something major to have dealt with during that time. Insomnia and reactivity to stress is a symptom of autoimmune conditions.
Perhaps that’s why Victoria mourned for so long, she maybe felt responsible for his premature death? A member of the royal family taking responsibility for a spouses death you say! No, your right, they wouldn’t take responsibility for anything.
I wonder if Victoria always insisted Albert’s clothing be laid out each day and dressing only in black after his death was more out of guilt over not acknowledging his medical ailments rather than grieving the loss of a partner. Just my opinion, don’t come for me.
I tend to agree
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Thank you for the support and suggestion for longer videos
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Even with the possibility of Crohn's, I wonder if Prince Albert may have had coeliac disease? That would also explain the GI issues, and poorly managed coeliac disease wreaks havoc on the immune system and can also cause awful mental health problems including (but not limited to) severe depression... 🤔
By all accounts, queen Victoria was a terrible person to deal with and it sounds like Albert took the brunt of it
She was like my Welsh inlaws, hated going for dinner at their house as in mid winter they had l the windows open and the doors to AIR the house! I sat there shivering one Saturday and got up and said to my then boyfriend, I am going home. He said why? I said if I stay I will get pneumonia! His parents were not pleased but I noticed next time I came doors and windows were closed 😂
How could one possibly know he had meningitis or a perforated bowel without an autopsy.
would love to know your sources ! e.g. without autopsy, how does one know he perforated an intestinal abcess?
It is sad to learn about the health ailments that Prince Albert had to endure during his lifetime. Like all the Hanoverian consorts, he had a lot to deal with. He is a good example of a devoted royal consort. Could you please do a video about the society and culture of the Regency era?
Thank you for your continued support and your wonderful ideas for more content
I will look to do a video on the regency era 😊
@@PastPeople Thank you so much
Thought he had an issue with gout
Poor man. All the inbreeding in their families couldn't have helped.
Goodness me, I had no idea about these long term issues of Prince Albert’s health,not the best choice for the bloodline perhaps. Queen Victoria, not untypical, was famously self unaware vis-a-vis her relationship with her mother, whom she cast out of her life & only regretted shortly before her mother’s death. So, along with her libidinous demands on the well endowed Albert her profound depression & blaming her son Edward might be also be accompanied by her realization of her own intolerance & contribution to Albert’s death as she remembered how much he suffered. Too little & much too late!
Wait! How you know he was well endowed? 😂😂😂
The man tried his best. He tried as hard as he could. The human body can only take so much. Albert' s body finally gave out from the stress.
I would strongly advise anyone not to marry their first cousin. That's almost like marrying your sibling.
Although Gillian Gill's biography "We two" implies that the relationship between Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort was a toxic, where he managed to manipulate her; Helen Rappaport's study "A magnificent obsession" introduces us to a queen deeply obsessed with her husband, to the point of fueling jealousy of the paternal relationship from he to had with her own daughters! I find the view of Albert as a despot to the women unfair. If it had been, he would not have allowed his daughters to receive the same education that his sons received in all areas of knowledge. As for the queen's obsession with mourning, her smart daughter Vicky observed that the queen "liked the suffering after a death." Regarding the exaggerated mourning that the queen had after the death of her mother, the Duchess of Kent; Albert observed that the queen: "she lived in the past, in the future but not in the present". By the way, Albert started to take care of the affairs of state because the queen had a psychotic period in which she saw people's faces consumed by worms and coffins floating in her path. Absolutely all of his contemporaries remembered the madness of King George and feared that Queen Victoria had inherited this disease. For this reason, the politicians tacitly agreed that Albert should take over her duties. If he became a workaholic, he was basically to escape his wife's obsessive demands of him.
I have always low-key wondered if Albert may have exaggerated some of his symptoms at times to get a break from his wife. Victoria was quite *physically* demanding on him (if you know what I mean 😉) while Albert was said to be prudish by nature. Obviously he did have some very real health conditions, especially in the last few years, but I also think some of it was his version of "honey, I have a headache tonight". For some reason their marriage is portrayed as perfect, but in reality, they were both emotionally abusive to each other and seemed to have a strange mixture of attraction and contempt. I guess that's par for the course for royals though.
Interesting theory that does make some sense. Although Albert was prudish, he wasn't with his wife. He strongly believed that sex within marriage was fine, hence the nine kids! Victoria did seem to be more keen though, I agree that their marriage wasn't all that great especially when put into the context of our 21st century sensibilities. It was passionate, but volatile.
Heat intolerance is common with hyperthyroid. Can make one impatient and edgy as well.
Would like to hear more of Catherine Swynford mistress of John of Gaunt and later his wife.
Thank you for the suggestion! I will definitely do a video on these people 😁
Same! I am descended from them through their son John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset.
My husband is through their daughter,Joan.
@@ktlipshitz3212 Hi cousin may I ask if you are Jewish.as well?
@@ktlipshitz3212 Beaufort may not have been. Haunts child as her Husband had died bit could still have been the father.
Arthritis (unknown / untreated), Chron's Disease (unknown / untreated), possibly a twisted colon, stress, anxiety. Perhaps......Something to think about.
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Thank you very much 🙃
My husband suffered from Crohn's
Disease, and ended up having his
small intestine removed. It was absolutely Horrific!!!! You diagnose it from XRays, diarrhea, stomach pain,
fever, chills etc
NOT AUTOPSIES
The royals in Britian, both now and during Albert's time have immense workloads. This could not have been good for the Prince Consort.
He had a poor immune system. And abdominal issues which had no treatment in Victorian times.
I am wondering if he might have been afflicted with lupus with his various symtoms? I have Lupus and the symptoms like extreme fatigue, cold extremities, stomach issues, additional autoimmune diseases and impaired immune system sounds an awful like many of the symtoms I suffer with.
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I reckon that immoral Edward didn't help his father's situation.
People deal with a lot of problems with their adult children - very rarely are they responsible for deaths though!
Sad, I did hear about the Crones disease
Dying was the only way the poor man could get away from that ghastly nymphomaniac to whom he was wed.
So she liked sex. That doesn't make her a bad person 😏
I'm usually a supporter of women but victoria was truly ghastly and selfish.
Based on her behavior and treatment of others, Victoria was what we would now call a narcissist. She didn't treat her children or her mother any better than she did poor Albert. Though her mother was a terrible person, by all accounts.
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Royal marriages maybe arranged much like charles and diana
With parliaments is there any need for royalty many other countries cope without them!
Very interesting thank you - sounds like Albert was poorly for most of his life. I would love to know more about Lady Margaret De Beauchamp the mother of Margaret Beaufort please as she was my x 17 Great Grandmother (My G Grandfather x17 was Sir Oliver St John who was not Margaret Beaufort's father). Terrific vids thank you 🙏💎
EVEN TODAY, YOU CAN BE MISSDIAGNOSED, AND DIE WITHOUT THE CORRECT TREATMENT. THE FURTHER YOU GO BACK IN TIME, THE MORE LIKELY THAT BECAME.
Pls do a video on the parents and siblings of Prince Albert
Victoria did not like children or having them. Her husband Albert suffered her mood swings and temper. There were times when he communicated with her but way of notes. He died of crohns desease.
It's not proven that he died from Crohn's disease - it's suspected that he did.
Wonder how many men would have wanted to hook up with Queen Victoria
Albert had Crohn’s disease.
Poor man. He was lucky to catch the pneumonia.
Everybody knows Prince Albert died of asphyxiation from being kept in that can.
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Poor prince Albert
Sure sounds like Crohns.
I would asked for my own room if I was Albert now I’m thinking was she just mourning that long and dressed in black because she’s low key guilty of not helping him and indirectly killing him
It sounds so very much as if he had a severe lifetime case of Fibromyalgia.
These folks did not get the connection between sex and babies. They really didn't.
This was terrific!
Poor man..his fate was to be the progenitor of a line of royals. Victoria would have no one else. I think of him really as a martyr .
Poor man.
He suffocated in that damn can
Hehehe!
Okay. It all males sense now, her dramatic lifelong "mourning.". It was more like guilt. No doubt she was sorry afterwards but I find it very difficult to pity anyone who lost a grandchild and literally tells the mother, her own daughter that her own grief was greater. Bullcrap. I used to love the story of Victoria and Albert and their love together. But the more I learn the more it is obvious, Queen Victoria only loved herself. One does not treat her loved ones with such passive aggressive disdain and really love them.
Sorry meant to say makes sense.
I thought he was put in a can.
And here I thought it was because someone stuck him in a can...!??...
I find the voice too difficult to understand to watch this.
I read somewhere that Prince Albert was most likely suffering from stomach cancer I know he died from dyptheria
He either had Crohns disease or severe IBS.
Poor fellow would probably have had a better life if he had remained single.
Did he peirce his Jerry helmet by any chance 🤔
No one let him out
LOL
It's what happens if you leave someone in a can.
What a couple!! He, suffering from several health issues and she from hemophilia... And still they could conceived 9 children!! But, the most tragic matter is that all the blame and responsability of Albert's death was put on poor Edward VII!! I think that is why he was so miserable during his life and the way he could cope with it was living so wild...
I apologize if you feel offended by my opinion. In some occassions there are people who answer you back... 🤷♀️
God, the more tidbits I hear of, Victoria, the more I dislike her. Poor, Albert…
Ain’t this the guy that was in a can that some clown said they better let out???
Yea,that he.
I was gonna say...he died because he was left in the can for too long! Hahahhaaa
Now they made a piercing named after him
Total bloody supposition!!!!!!!!!
M6 goodness! Sounds like PA had a type A personality- perfectionist, controlling. Possibly Chrones disease. Also maybe had some respiratory issues like asthma & what is known today as IBS - irritable bowel syndrome. Added to his stress from these illnesses was the constant walking on eggshells around QV - his wife, who is known to have a volatile Temper. May he RIP.
Victoria was a real piece of work!
It wasn't because he was in a can?
Sounds like his wife was actively trying to kill him
Sounds like he had parasites...
I thought his death was caused from being locked up in a can.
What is this 'can' people keep referring to?
He stayed in the can too long?
Victoria sounds like she was a peach to live with.
Didn’t stop him from pro-creating.
What ever do you mean? Didn't he suffocate in the can?
Maybe that piercing was infected
A GREAT MYTH - NOT TRUE SADLY
The real reason for Prince Albert's death was they put him in a can.
Mariage does exhaust one ..
Wow maybe he was not able to father children... " Enter" mr Brown Hummmmmm.
putrefactive colitis treated incorrectly....
I always thought he suffocated in a large coffee can
@David Wilcox…I got a chuckle out of your remark. I can remember as a very small child that my Grandpa smoked a pipe…and his favorite, other than the fancy cherry scented tobacco he would receive as a gift on special occasions was “Prince Albert in the can.” 😂😂
@@MeMe-nw9mq i thought it was either coffee or tobacco been about 45 yrs since ive made a prank call.lol
@David Wilcox…to be honest, I don’t know if they even make that brand of tobacco anymore. Neither my husband nor I smoke and we don’t know anyone who smokes a pipe.
@@MeMe-nw9mq you know its a 50 yr old joke right.prince albert in a can...
You would have thought that with so many people asking if they had Prince Albert in a can, that someone would have let him out. 😉
Ya think he was just maybe a diabetic
Typhoid Fever! Stop trying to re-write history.
What a boring description...what a tiring voice.
Can you imagine how much fun Victoria would have on Adult Friend Finder?
Fake news. We all know he died in a can. That's why you gotta let him out
I think she poisoned him🤔🤔🤔
The narrator has a terrible voice.
Thank you for your kind words 😊
@@PastPeople I like your voice and the history is good too.
I always thought he died from asphyxiation… 🧐🥸