The Tragic Life of The English Queen of Spain | Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
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Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode we are looking into the life of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain whose life was blighted by several tragedies and events.
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This is awesome FLives! Congrats! And thank you for the video. It is great listen to history I never heard. You did an amazing job, again! Ps: Sorry i'm later, still few issues regarding my health. I'll relisten to your videos as always. Take care
I am so proud of her grandson for making sure that she was laid to rest with her husband and children in the Royal vault where she belongs.
Queen Eugenie was one of the few in the Windsor - Hanoverian clan that knew how to dress and display her jewels. Sad life, but immaculate at all times.
She reminds me of my great-aunt Josephine Turner. We are in the Scottish Lamont clan that Queen Elizabeth's mother is in.
@@KristinaTurnerUS Queen Elizabeth's mother was a member of Clan Lyon not Lamont
Victoria was the last monarch from the House of Hanover. Her descendants belong to the house of Saxe Coburg Gotha through her husband.
@@cerulean739 I may be related and intergenerational ritual abuse runs on both sides of my family and they retaliate if you report.
And Princess Margaret.
Thank you for another forgotten life. I think being a child or grandchild of Queen Victoria often turned out to be a curse.
Thanks for watching!
In a monarchy, the eldest son/daughter of a king is destined to become the next sovereign. And that fact alone is proof that the system of a monarchy is rotten! Look at England and Charles nowadays, he is not the best person to become king, his youngest brother is a better choice, but Charles is the eldest and simply that fact means that his destination is to become the next king of England. What a JOKE, a very bad JOKE a monarchy is!!
@@donaldpesch7477 Oh, stop reading gossip rags! Charles is an excellent choice to be King!
@@donaldpesch7477 you mean Britain or the UK not England there is a difference
@@donaldpesch7477 Under your logic, why not Princess Anne? She is the hardest working royal.
I also read that she was one of the few royals who were friendly and accepting of Grace Kelly. In fact, she was the godmother of Grace's son, Prince Albert.
Grace Kelly was not royal but acted the part.
@@misscoutts6193she was a royal, since she married a Prince of monaco
A mere Serene highness 😮 To this day it is what it is . But attitude and is what is now called normal 😮 is what it is . Good thing 😊
It's ironic how similar Victoria's life was to her cousin Alexandria Empress of Russia. Both were beloved granddaughters of Queen Victoria, they caught the eyes of heirs/rulers of some powerful European countries, both had horrific moments of what should be a joyous occasion marking bad omen (there was a stampede where 100's were injured or died during Tsar Nicholas coronation, the people thought it was insensitive the couple continued with the celebrations at a ball), both ladies carried the family hemophilia gene to the heirs they would give birth to, they went into helping the medicals institutions, etc.
There are some differences, like the Spanish didn't hold the former King and Queen hostage and turn them to martyrs, and Alexandria was still love by her husband despite being a carrier of hemophilia. Ultimately, both had tragic situations their marriages would bring.
I’m sure those Royal mothers blamed themselves for the suffering of their sons from the genetic disorder they carried. It must have been torture for them to see their boys suffer so much from even minor injuries.
Victoria was welcomed back to England. Alexandria and Nicholas were refused…
I wouldn't call it ironic. It was planned by the Habsburgs to concentrate ruling power in one small family despite it's terrible royal inbred genes. The more rare Hemophilia B, which the royals carried, is recessive and was believed to have begun with a mutation in Queen Victoria. Take a look at Charles II of Spain, the offspring of incestuous pairing who ended the Habsburg Spanish line due to his infertility.
Also Spain was far more liberal then Czarist Russia
They weren’t refused. A house on the Windsor estate was made ready for them. They left it too late to leave.
The present princess Eugenie,daughter of prince Andrew, British royal,is named after this lady who in turn was named after the ex empress of France Eugenie wife of Napoleon III last monarch of France -the French imperial family had to find exile in Britain in 1870 when France was defeated by the Prussians and eventually empress Eugenie soon widowed became a very close friend of queen Victoria -that's why Victoria's grandchild was named after her.
And Prince Andrews oldest daughter is Princess Beatrice. Eugenie full name is Eugenie Helena Victoria of York.
It's sad that Andrew's daughter Eugenie is so stupid, but then again, so is Andrew
It's not so much that her daughters weren't born with the disorder, it's an illness which is passed via the female line with the symptoms of the illness showing through the male. I understand that the king would have been very unhappy with the problems his boys faced, yet taking it all out on his wife really isn't a very mature or fair approach. I dare say she would have felt culpable enough and suffered without the need to be treated badly by her husband.
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How dare he blame her when he made the choice to roll the dice.
Life isn't a dice game; he didn't have to marry into a diseased family. Plenty of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese noblewomen he could have married instead,
Hey! He was the mighty King of Spain!
I blame her too.
Things were different then. Henry 8th blanked all his wives when they didn't produce any sons since nobody at the time knew that it was a man's DNA that causes the sex of the baby and not the woman
When parents lose a child or a child gets hurt - they will blame each other because they need something or someone to be mad at :(
Excellent video. And that explains why when Prince Philip died, King Filipe VI condolence message to the Queen was addressed "Dear Aunt Lilibet" which I found so touching!!!
My Mum was close friends with the lady who bred the Queens corgis. She emigrated to Australia in the 1970's and would often talk of the Queen as Lilibet. When Mrs Grey died, the Queen sent a perpetual trophy in her name to the dog club she started in South Australia. She was an amazing woman ...so many stories going back to George V. The driver of Edward VIII [while he was still Prince of Wales] ran over and killed her dog when she was younger. She got to know the Royal Family after that. Mrs Thelma Grey was one of the most interesting people I ever knew.
At least her grandson honored her rightfully in the end.
This is another royal biography that makes me very glad that I come from a long line of nobodies. Poor lady!
Exactly! I think I'm more grateful for my Irish/Scottish farmer ancestors, lol.
You are a someone . Think of all the people claiming to having a drop of royal blood. We don't have to both. Without farmers, servants, etc they would have nothing. Yay for commoners.
Yes, quite grateful to be an average bud on an ordinary tree! I think my ancestors made wise choices overall. There is a certain blessing in anonymity.
Assuming they were all consensual choices.
I love your channel and the message behind it. One of the most forgotten lives of history in my opinion is Ernestine Lambriquet, the adoptive daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. She was originally a servant girl but the benevolent King and Queen took her in after her mother died, as a playmate for their own daughter. She stayed with the family during their imprisonment because of the French Revolution until they were forcefully separated. Her unique position in history inspired me so much that I wrote a book about her.
That sounds very interesting, i had no idea they had an adoptive daughter, also thanks for the support! If you would be willing to collaborate on a video send me an email : forgottenlivesyt@gmail.com
What is the name of the book?! Can I buy it on Amazon?!
@@rayllompart The book is called "Ernestine" by Michiel B.L. Korte, and it's available on Amazon!!!
@@MichielBLKorte Thank you! I shall consider it!....although I can barely delineate the history of that great victim of time and place and circumstance, Marie Antoinette! My honor to communicate with you!... Intellectuals and historians are up there on my list of friendships I have accumulated throughout life!... Much luck to you!
@@ForgottenLives Ooh, a collab between you both on this fascinating topic sounds fantastic! I know I'd be sure to tune in!
She was a very lovely looking woman. As a young teen I remember Spain going back to a Monarchy.
She was the epitome of perfection at that time. She was beautiful and classy .
Queen Ena was one of several extremely beautiful granddaughters of Queen Victoria and she was not alone in having haemophilia. There is no doubt she was a scapegoat for Spain’s political problems. Apparently Princess Patricia made it clear that she was not interested in marrying King Alphonso and who could have blamed her
Her sad life mirrored that of her cousin, Czarina Alexandra. Both Moms of hemophiliac sons, both used as scapegoats for this issue & governmental corruption...
1) she was a carrier of the haemophilia gene, but she didn’t have it herself. 2) Do you mean Princess Patricia of Connaught?
@@andypham1636 No I meant that Queen Ena carried the gene and that caused trouble in her marriage to Alfonso and the Spanish royal family
Although she had much sadness in her life due to the hemophilia that she carried and passed on to her children, all in all she did not live a horrible life. Many had more tragic lives. I think she was one of the luckier ones! Consider the Russian royal family.
Alfonso XIII blamed Ena for hemophilia in their sons, yet Nicholas II of Russia never blamed Alexandra for Tsarevich Alexei's hemophilia.
It doesn't matter if no one blamed Alexandra, she is the one that passed that gene on to her son. Only males suffer from this disease, but the females are the ones who can pass it on to their children.
Well, it is rare for a female to suffer with this disease.
@@aces.9738 I'm surr se wasn't questioning that, but pointing the kind of the spouse he was.
@@freespiritable You're probably right.
Nicholas worshipped Alexandra and was a far better husband than Alfonso.
Forgotten Lives is my favourite history series. I visited Spain in 1978 with my family. The Spaniards were still proud of their Civil War and many buildings still showed the damage. We went to a Sunday market and the buildings behind jt were full of damage from shells and bullets. I was only a child, my dad tried to ask about the buildings. Unable to speak Spanish, and could't speak English. They pointed at the properties and put their hands over their hearts, and looked to the sky. I would love to know what they had said. Thanks so much for your video.
Thanks for the support:)
They were the winners who re-wrote our History. You can find now young people who say that those were placid times and the sides in the roads in Spain still keep the bodies of many who were not at fault. They killed teachers and intellectualls. They used the same methods of Hitler. Yes, there were labour camps where people died of disease and hard living conditions. Franco won the war thanks to an international community who looked aside and the Germans and Italians air forces and alliances. Spain had a dictatorship during forty years because is was better for Europe and USA to keep a genocide in power than giving power to Spaniards.
@@Lyrielonwind That's what happens in civil wars. You didn't mention the republicans killed priests, raped nuns and destroyed churches. The International Brigades and the communists helped the republicans in the fight. Did the Russians ever return the gold the government foolishly gave them? Horrible things happened on both sides. What happened happened and your history is your history. You have to live with it.
I thought I knew the Royal Family but this was all new to me.
Thank you for this crisp, clear biographical overview of the Queen of Spain.
Excellent video. She had so many perils in life. I'm glad she was finally interred with her family.
My grandmother, who was Spanish, was born in 1910, so she saw all this turmoil first hand in her youth, plus, one of her brothers died in the Spanish Civil war, she never recovered from that loss (she had senile dementia since she was young). She married my grandpa and came to Argentina (my grandpa was born here from Spanish parents). It's a pitty she was so senile when she was alive to ask about her life in Spain (she died when I was 16) Great video as usual!
Thank u for the wonderful tale, I knew Queen Vs family stretched into most euro monarchies, but not the details of all branches. Thank u again for telling Queen Eug. Vic's tale
I really enjoyed this video about the English Queen of Spain, Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. She had a very interesting and yet fascinating life, I personally think it was despicable of her husband to blame her for the blood health issue of their children, especially since she had told him about this prior to their marriage. I was glad to hear that she was finally buried next to her husband and children in Spain. Great investigating and presentation, loved the photos, too.
Thanks for the support 🙏
I don't think that would have made her happy knowing she was buried next to that "man" but next to her children yes.
She was not English. She was British! BTW - not the same thing!
She Was Culturally English/British,Ethnically She Was German,Through Her Mother Beatrice,She Came From The Partially British German House Of Hanover,Her Grandmother Victoria I And The Entirely German House Of Saxe Coburg And Gotha,Her Grandfather Prince Albert And Her Her Father Prince Henry Of Battenberg Was German.
How could she be English if she is of the House of Battenberg?
Can you make a video about her cousin Marie of Romania?
Another great video from you. I am glad she was finally buried with the rest of her family in Spain. Thank you for creating and sharing the lives of people that truly have been forgotten about. ✨👌🙏
Fun fact: An attempt on her life and the king's was made right after their wedding ceremony. an anarchist named Mateu Morral threw a bomb at the royal carriage, exploding at the exact moment Victoria Eugenie was turning her head towards the direction of St. Mary’s Church that Alfonso was showing her, saving the new queen from serious injuries. A number of guards and bystanders were killed and injured, however the royal couple were unharmed.
Isn’t this the story that was told in the video?
Why are you telling us something already in the video? Did you not bother to watch it?
What was fun about that fact? Seems horrible for the peon bystanders. Seems the bouquet bomb wasn't well aimed as neither royal was hurt; but Queen Eugenia was covered with blood from a decapitated guard.
Great to see a video about such an obscure member of the British Royal Family but one of the Spanish dynasty jure uxoris.
Queen Victoria was rather busy placing her children, grand children, nieces, nephews and great grandchildren in powerful positions. Didn’t save them but she scattered the bloodline throughout many kingdoms.
I read a book about Queen Victoria's granddaughters, and I highly recommend it. In some ways, they were the first "feminist." They championed many causes to help women and children. And they were beautiful as well
What’s the name of the book please?
@@anastasia_editz Queen Victoria's Granddaughter's by Christina Croft. She also wrote about the grandsons
Alphonso bears a striking resemblance to King Philip IV of Spain which is odd because Philip was a Habsburg and Alphonso was a Bourbon. Nonetheless both men were extremely ugly
No joke. He was lucky to have Eugenia. Ungrateful jerk
Alfonso XIII was son of Austrian archduchess Maria Christina. And strongly resembled his Habsburg mother, maternal grandfather Karl Ferdinand and many other more distant ancestors. He had famous Habsburg jaw
I appreciate all your research and eloquent delivery. Thank you so much
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I'm impressed with you! Well done! It's great to see younger people so interested in the past. You're a deep soul. 🥰❤
Interesting! ~Thanks
🤔 Anyone else wonder if Fergie & Andre got the names for her girls from the daughter & granddaughter of QV ?
I have always looked on Victoria Eugenia as a model of calm, unruffled and uncomplaining dignity: all these real tragedies, and yet, in public, she was never anything other than a serene, smiling, regal presence - not to mention absolutely stunning with her blonde looks and fabulous style. Her husband - and many others - considered her cold, but I consider her a role model. Viva la Reina!
You could say she's the original Lady Diana.
I just want to thank you for your (as always) great video. Well researched and beautifully narrated. You always bring the most obscure and forgotten stories that one will never find anywhere else. Thank you
So sad. Love listening to these historical stories at night before bed. So interesting. Just this one is very sad. I have never heard/read about Victoria’s children & Grandchildren but now I will. Looking forward to the next one thanks
Thanks 😊
Why would they circumcise a child if there’s a possibility of hemophiliac being passed down to that child. To me that sounds like a death sentence for their son
Circumcision was carried out routinely even when I was a child. Didn’t matter what religion, we were christian and my brother was circumcised
That’s not the point!
Excellent video! What an incredible life she lived and thank you for telling her story.
You never mentioned her two brothers killed in action in the First World War when Royal Princes went to the front for action. Prince Maurice was one, can't remember name of the other.
The other brother was Leopold but he died during a hip operation in 1922.
@Ryan Windsor Prince Maurice had 2 brothers named Alexander and Leopold. Alexander was wounded during WW! and invalided out of the Army. He was given the title of Marquess of Carisbrook. Leopold, who suffered from haemophilia died in 1922 having served as an Aide de Camp during the war. It is now thought that Prince Maurice may have also been a haemophiliac as well
Queen Ena, ( Queen Victoria Eiugenie's and of Spain Nick name) was the king Felipe of Spain's paternal great grandmother and Prince Philip, the Queen's late husband's maternal aunt.
Actually Philip's grandfather and Ena's father were brothers. Phillip's grandmother and Ena were first cousins, being granddaughters of Queen Victoria. Thus Philip and Ena would have been 1st cousins once removed in two different ways. While Phillip and Sofia, Felipe's mother,were also 1st cousins once removed through the Royal family of Greece.
Except none of them were Greek they were all German
@jameshamilton8245 The royal Greek family was not Greek at all though (in fact of all the European countries with royals, they were latecomers to this tradition, which was most cemented in western Europe traditionally).
The Greek royals came via Denmark and the Danish royals also descended from Britain's Queen Victoria.
So the Spanish royals are a pretzel of descendants from Queen Victoria on both sides (former King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia--husband and wife and distant relatives). Which is how and why they are also related to the British royals (including Queen Elizabeth), and the present Scandinavian houses.
Alfonso XIII sounded like a complete nightmare and a spoilt brat. His poor wife.
Most King's are narcissistic..
I was hanging upon every word! Such excellence in your research,and your narration keeps it so interesting! That's why I love this channel SO much! I learn many things about the past and the people who were an integral part of the whole picture that influenced things if today! Thank you for what you do,!🥰
Thanks for watching 😁
I must say, I like your background setting, the color of the wall and the patina on the gorgeous vases make an elegant setting for your narration! 🖼
Why is the title on the thumbnail video - the hated Queen of Spain? Hated by whom - the Spanish? Her husband?
Thank you for everything!
Love every one of them….❤️
It was also nice to see your face, and associate a face to your voice!!
Thank you for this video! Is wonderful. Very informative and great narration. Have a beautiful day ❤️
Thanks for the support:)
Always appreciate your well researched documentaries.
Thank you again for another interesting and informative story!
Thank you for such a fascinating video. Very well done!
Another excellent upload, thanks for bring up the life of Victoria Eugene grandmother of the current king of Spain. Thanks for the Great images and work you put into the videos. BC
Another great,, informative, interesting video. I now know more than I did before on her life. Thank you.
Thank you for the video!!!
Another great Sponsor video! Love your channel FLives and your awesome narration. Fascinated story! Sorry I'm later, still health issues problems, but always happy to be here. Thank you
This was an excellent video. I always enjoy your channel, but as one interested in monarchies, and having read a great deal about them, I found your research excellent. Thank you and please continue your wonderful work.
Another great informative video. Thank you for consistently releasing such high quality videos . ps Love the thumbnail
As always you deliver!
Thanks for the video, Victoria was the Grandmother of Europe Royalty
The danger of haemophilia is not bumps and scrapes. The danger is bleeding into joints, via injury, or internal bleeding from surgeries.
The dangers of incest.....
*Thank you for your beautiful work, I loved it!*
Another great video!
Thank you for yet another brilliant history video, so good to hear your voice again. Would love more of these videos on the forgotten royals. Thank you.
Thanks for the support, will do!
I so appreciate your wonderful channel and it's amazing content. How fortunate we are to have FL's! 👍👏✌
Thanks for watching:)
It's amazing, how often it happens, the man blames the woman, most undeserving of everything that happens to them, this lady, I think, tried her very best she could for someone in her position, all of her life,
Aaah! Behind the pageant, we are ALL the same....May she rest in peace...
Well presented and educational video.
Really interesting. I love history and hearing about ppls lives.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Love you videos, but this one in particular!
I think that Queen Victoria's granddaughters ar an endless source of material and I hope in the future you will cover more of them in your videos!
I should probably cover more of them!
Excellent story about a little known descendent of Great Britain's Queen Victoria. The end confused me a little. Talk about VE's son and VE's hitherto not mentioned grandson was not clear. The reason Juan Carlos (VE's grandson) was made king and not Juan (VE's son) was concerns about his politics.
That was really interesting thank you
very interesting and well said.
Surprisingly well done.
Thank you!
Thank you for your lovely video.
Great video!
Thank you so much - YOU are brillant!
Thank you for that, so sad , how crazy life was then, class& status was so important.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Now it’s money that keeps a person from facing consequences of criminal and treasonous actions, no class needed
Narrated Exquisitely!
These are always educational.
Well Told Story. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wonderful story, this lady kept her dignity ,all her life ,dealing as well as she could ,in the changing circumstances of the time thanks again.
Thank you for telling her story
No matter how ‘high’ born you were in those times women were just mere pawns in a game dominated by men, power and money.
Very interesting - thank you for this! I have lived in Spain for a long time but I'd never heard of her.
very interesting..i love hearing all about people i didnt know about...and relayed by a well spoken young man, in slow precise detail..well done
Wonderful and thoughtful content - always fascinating - thank-you! I would love to see your take on the Soong sisters of China - arguably the last Empress of China Mme Chiang Kai Shek - your storytelling ability would be great to see applied to these amazing characters... I think you'd enjoy diving in here based on the amazing women you've selected to profile. Keep up the good work!!!🌞
Well done.
I really like your channel it is so very informative
One of you're best ✔️
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I must say, this channel is dynamite! I no longer have to shower alone! ❤️
Thanks 😊
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS BRILLIANT NARRATOR?English or South African?The work is great!!So informative and classic!Thank you.John
She was not ‘English’. Born in Scotland at Balmoral. She was British! Not the same thing.
You can be a nationality whilst have been born in another country. An American born in France would still be an American.
Interesting from the start to the end!
Thank you Well presented
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Hello, why not find out about the mad king of Spain who made a corpse a Queen they poisoned his love but he made her queen after he was King I saw it on Ripley believe it or not w/ the late Jack Palace
Will look into it!
@@ForgottenLives Okay and Thanks :)
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Thanks for watching!
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