Anyone know how accurate this was?
I though Albert died of Typhoid.
Dianna Rigg isn’t * that * old…is she?
Having missed it-:(, how did Albert die in this version? It was indeed typhoid fever-at least, that was the official cause of death, although some historians speculate that he may have suffered from stomach cancer.
How was it, btw? I really wanted to see it! Darn!
(I hope it’s on again, so I can tape it).
They started running it again, Guin, but you’ve missed the beginning again. But I’m sure they’ll run it again.
I missed the last episode, so I’m watching it again.
They didn’t name it, but it was some coughing ailment over a period of months.
I didn’t get to see her chase Gladstone with her walking stick, dammit.
One thing I found amusing when I studied V&A was that their first child, Victoria, was born nine months and 4 days after the wedding, or something like that. However, in the early days of their marriage, when they went walking in the morning in the gardens, a member of court was heard to growl “That’s no way to get us an heir.” With nine kids I don’t think sex was a problem for them.
The cause of death was indeed typhoid but he had already been in poor health before contracting it. The final illness was prolonged.
When this was shown on the BBC in the UK several months ago, the general reaction was that the number of historical inaccuracies was high, even for a TV mini-series. The dumbest mistake was the claim that the wedding took place in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.
My biggest problem with it was their failure to establish a consistent policy as to which actors should adopt unconvincing German accents.
Actually, from reading biographies of Queen Victoria, she and Albert were humping like rabbits every night in the first couple months of their marriage. They were CONSTANTLY GOING AT IT, people! How the hell else did they manage to have 9 kids, one every other year, or so!!!
BTW, this isn’t directed at anyone here, but just the old myth that Victoria was such a prude about sex. Trust me, she was NOT.
When speaking to her physician, she is reputed to have said “Do you mean that we can not have any fun?” I’ve always wondered if that was she and Albert or the Royal We.
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Did she say…er, well, did she say “Kiss us, Albert, kiss us!” ?
Who ruled after Victoria? Wasn’t Albert (the son…who did you tell them apart) “not right” or something?
Albert Edward, aka Bertie, became Edward VII. Of the famous, Edwardian era.
There wasn’t anything wrong with Bertie, other than his parents put WAY too much pressure on the poor boy. It’s no wonder he was such a philanderer later in life-all throughout his childhood, he was constantly nagged and ridiculed and compared to his “perfect” older sister, Vicky. There’s a story that he once asked if pink flowers were girls, and blue flowers were boys, and Victoria went into a fit, accusing him of being preoccupied with sex!
In their defence, however, Vic and Al were incredibly frightened that Bertie could have turned out like her uncles, the Hanoverian dukes, or like Albert’s father or brother, who were no saints-all of them lead HORRIBLY scandalous lives-that make today’s crop of royals look like priests and nuns.
http://www.worldroots.com BEST site for info on Royalty in history, as far as I know.
So yes, he did become King, and he was known as Edward the Peacemaker. (And Edward the Caressor, in the gossip circles). Yeah, he was a womanizer, but a damn good king. He was incredibly enlightened, as far as racial relations (though not towards women, sadly enough), but he turned out okay. The one Victoria should have worried about more was her grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, or Willy.