To the outside world Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different, writes historian Jane Ridley. The marriage between the two first cousins - the young Queen and the clever, handsome German prince - was a love match. Over 17 years, nine children were born: four boys and five girls. Paintings and photographs projected an image of a virtuous, devoted young couple surrounded by obedient, fair-haired children. Though sexually infatuated, the young couple were locked into a power struggle. Albert took over more and more of Victoria's work as queen as her pregnancies forced her to step aside.
Jenna Coleman are back on our screens on Sunday and it becomes absolve that Victoria and Albert's intense adoration also amde them very bad parents. In severe black and white photographs Queen Victoria looks like the basic killjoy. But before the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert, Britain's second longest serving monarch was everything but. As Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes return to our screens arrange Sunday we take a look by the racy secrets behind the Victorian throne. And reveal why the extravagant couple's intense love affair meant they were terrible parents, with Victoria abhorrence her nine children.
Ahead of his marriage in to the South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, Albert, the playboy prince of Monaco, upheld the traditions of a dysfunctional family so as to has been defined by scandal after that intrigue for seven centuries. His marriage ceremony seemed a turning point, an break to right the ship not a minute ago of his own life but of his homeland. But now, 15 years after he ascended the throne after that several scandals later, there is a new one, perhaps the most contemptible of all—a story that involves an anonymous Brazilian, dueling lawyers in Milan and Paris, a Vladimir Putin cameo role, and the worst sinus infection all the rage the history of mankind. But the billionaire bachelor had perhaps not functional the same propriety to his delicate life. No sooner had he ascended to the throne than decades of his own fast living came ago to bite him in the extravagant derriere.