QUEEN VICTORIA'S CHILDREN

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• Release Year: 2013
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: In fairy tales, the prince and princess fall in love and live happily ever after. Reality is quite a different story. This new three-part series examines one of the most tempestuous of Royal relationships, that of Queen Victoria with her husband, Prince Albert, and their nine children. The series uses personal photos, letters, diaries, memoirs and journals to bring to life the story of the tumultuous relationship of Victoria and Albert and the dictatorial attitude of Victoria towards her children following Albert’s untimely death. It is a story of manipulation, conflict, intimidation, emotional blackmail, and fevered attempts b her children to escape the clutches of their domineering and needy mother.; Best Laid Plans; Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared a passionate marriage. Behind closed doors, royal domestic life often seemed like a battlefield. Examined here is Victoria’s tempestuous relationship with Prince Albert, their attempts to engineer the upbringing of their children and to save the monarchy by projecting a modern image of the Royal Family.; A Domestic Tyrant; This episode explores how, after Albert’s death, Victoria clung to and bullied her daughters and arranged their marriages. In response, the princesses fought back, becoming independent women determined to find love and fresh purpose. From sculpture to medicine, the daughters became champions of women for a new era.; Princes Will Be Princes; After Albert’s death, Victoria’s sons struggled to live up to their father’s model of purity. This episode focuses on Victoria’s difficult relationship with her eldest son Bertie, the Prince of Wales, whom she blamed for Albert’s death, believing his sexual indiscretions to have fatally weakened her husband. Ultimately, the idea of monarchy based on purity is put to the test as the philandering Bertie comes to the throne.;
• Cast: Nicholas Rowe; Lucy McDowell; Rebecca Burrell; Richard Sanders; Denys Blakeway
• Director: Lucy McDowell
• Runtime: 3:00
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Movie