Learned any good history lately?
My impression of Queen Victoria was that she was the typical colonial snob with a superiority complex about being white and English, but to an extreme — because, y'know, royalty. But I imagined her to be a loving, grandmotherly type on a personal level.
However, at least according to this article, she was a bit of a biotch on a personal level and thought she was always right. Always.
For example: "Victoria became convinced that Lady Flora Hastings, an unmarried lady-in-waiting and friend of her mother’s whom she disliked, was pregnant with Conroy’s [her mother’s personal secretary] child. Victoria’s former governess Baroness Lehzen obligingly spread the rumour. Hastings was publicly humiliated, forced to protest her innocence and undergo a gynaecological examination. It transpired her swollen stomach was due to advanced liver cancer."
We have a resident Queen Vic expert in our midst, . Clarissa, would you say it's fair to describe her as a bit nasty on a personal level?
Anybody else have any historical tidbits to share?
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