I worked at a nicu in Spain for a while. Some kids are abandoned by their family, mostly kids of drug-adict mothers that kept using during pregnancy. When it was noticed that one of those kids was not going to make it, someone voluntered to hold them while they died. I did it once, my coleagues took the tubes out and I held him against my skin rubbing his back slowly for around 45 minutes until the machines stopped beeping. I'm glad I could help that tiny one to have peace in his last moments
At one point, Christian IX had a crush on Victoria but she was more interested in Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It took him some time to get over her, but at least they were the grandparents of George V of the UK.
They were also cousins. Queen Victoria, King Christian and Queen Louise of Denmark were descendants of King George II of Great Britain. He was their great great grandfather.
I’d never seen the portrait of Alexandra and Alexei holding her pearls. It’s so tender and lovely. So sad that he and Maria haven’t been properly buried, like the bodies are RIGHT THERE. Just give them some dignity for Christ’s sake.
Estrid Melissa I’m not so sure about that. The last updates from the church are that they still require more genetic evidence before a burial can take place
@@Maridun50 as of 2018, Alexei and either Anastasia or Maria (no positive ID of who is who) are still unburied. Their bones remain in the state archives due to Church political games.
Re: Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. As stated in the video, she died in Ontario, Canada - I believe near Toronto. Two years ago, the Smiths Falls Museum had an exhibit with a number of her personal effects and artwork. It was quite a coup for such a tiny small-town museum, located very close to where I grew up! But it seems after she died, a number of her items went to friends of hers, and either those friends or their descendants now live in Brockville, Ontario, which is about a 45 minute drive from the aforementioned museum and about a 90 minute drive from Ottawa. Having long been interested in the Russian Imperial Family, and having found Olga's story particularly fascinating, I thought it was pretty cool to be able to see her things at this small little museum in the middle of nowhere!
She died in Toronto, and is buried at the York Cemetery (with her husband and both sons), in the North York area of the city. She died just seven months after her sister, Xenia.
@@747Sean no, second cousins once removed, as Phillip's grandfather George I, was a sibling of Queen Elizabeth II's great grandmother Queen consort Alexandra.
The videos of this channel are very addictive and I can glady add this video to the list. The last two are my absolute favs. King Christian the ninth did have fascinating descendants.
Great video as always! I think you would love to look up the story of the daughters of King Michael (Miguel) of Portugal. He went to exile and had 6 daughters which married all throughout Europe. Some of the families mentioned here also descent from these 6 ladies!
This video was great!! Just a suggestion for an upcoming video can you do the children of tsar Nicholas the second, Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia and Alexei. There story is so sweet and yet so tragic and I would love to learn more about them!!
Nicholas: we are in the middle of a war with Germany! I'm going to the front line and lead my army! People: but them, who will be in charge of Russia while you're gone? Nicholas: my GERMAN wife and the mystical weird man, Rasputin! Good call, Nicholas... Good call... 😒
George V aaaalmost made Ireland our own nation.. he just created the republic of ireland, they kept 6 counties and still have them today - Northern Ireland is the worlds oldest colony it just isnt spoken about abroad for some reason. Love your videos so much
Personally, I think that we shouldn't martyr them! The Czar's poor leadership led to the death of his family, whom paid for the Czar's crimes! Let's not forget that!
@@fredrika27 as an avid history buff, who's studied this stuff most of my life...in my free time....maturity has shown me alot. Horrible choices, especially when you have the wealth and people around you to do better. Totally out of touch! It was all so awful, but their failure to rise above naivete and Victorian superficial expectations, and the whole imperial/God complex was a disaster!
@@kenny808kine8 I totally agree with you! What's worse Queen Elizabeth has also made poor choices from the beginning of her reign, yet we are to be full of praise for these families who just don't get it! I think the Swedish and Norwegian royal families get it and are very down to earth which will bold their houses well! You don't hear about the grey coats stopping their royals happiness and choice of wives!
@@fredrika27 I don't think you have to martyr someone to feel pity at the fate that befell them, especially the children. It's completely possible to accept that the Romanovs were flawed rulers, and the brutal murders of their kin were horrible, both.
@@Nikolaj11 I understand what you are saying about the children. However, I have noticed over the last few years, people calling for the return of the royal family to Russia, which I've visited! I've nothing against the monarchy, but everything against government using the family to deflect from Russia's social and economic problems. Not only that, many, not all, Russian royalists are also white supremacists--as if we need more people like that in the world!
In 1905 Norway dissolved the unpopular union with Sweden which had been imposed on Norway in 1814 and NOT Denmark. Before 1814 Denmark and Norway were ruled by the Danish Crown. Therefore it is not surprising that the Norwegians chose the Danish Prince Carl who changed his name to the more Norwegian Haakon.
Do Descendents of the Sons of the Daughters And Descendents of the Daughters of the Daughters This is slowly turning into a Legacy Challenge (SIMS4) :)
I still love Victoria, but she comes across as overbearing, shrewish, and at least she could be, but her grandchildren and beyond lives show how debilitating her helicopter monarching played out. Sad about Albert, he may have evened her out although they had their rows!
@@Furienna Doesn't explain why she thought her daughter-in-law shouldn't care for _her_ own children. And even with post-partum you can connect later. Not doing so is a choice.
@@Ikajo literally, they didn't have contraception and she tried things. I think one of the old "remedies" was cow dung on a woman's genitals the next morning.
@@Ikajo Well, it is well-known that mothers-in-law can be quite nasty. Victoria had never been a doting mother herself either, so it was hard for her to understand why any other woman was one. That said, it is not like she never connected to her children when they were grown up.
Thyra is easier to pronounce if you say the "Thy" like the beginning of the word "Tiara". It's a beautiful name, my great paternal grandmother was named that as well. Thank you for making these videos, they have kept me great company since covid began.
Correction on Louise: she hat two daughters and a stillborn son. Victoria rewrote the Letters Patent for the Fife Dukedom to allow Louise's daughters to succeed.
King Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel were second cousins to each other and third cousins to Queen Victoria.& her husband consort Prince albert of Saxe Coburg.. Prince Albert and Empress Victoria of India were also first cousins too each other..... their common ancestor was Otto I (912 - 973), Otto the Great : German king - Holy Roman Emperor & Duke of saxony....
You should make more videos on Danish royals. Such fascinating history they have: Christian the X who unpopularly overthrew the government in 1920, but was a figure of hope during WW2. Christian the VII, who was mentally unstable, and his wife Queen Caroline Mathilde, who had a well known affair, that caused the change of the monarchy up to the time before democracy. Christian the IV, without whom the Danish capitol of Copenhagen would not look like it does today. Frederik the III, who instated absolute monarchy and went to war against Sweden. Queen Louise, Christian the IXs wife, who actually had a bigger claim to the Danish throne than her husband. Queen Ingrid, the Consort of King Frederik the IX and the mother of the current Queen of Denmark. And far far more.
Kalo Arepo His name was Johann Friedrich Struense and the movie is called “En Kongelig Affære” (“A royal affair” in English). I know this movie very well. I’m Danish myself, after all ;)
@@christinaj.jensen4805 I watched the movie about a year ago and have forgotten some of the details but the queen in question was the daughter of the English king if I remember correctly and she was quite liberal whereas the Danish monarchy was very conservative and ancien regime at the time.Struensee was a great reformer but lost his life because of the affair.I'm Australian and of course so is your crown princess Mary.There has been a mini series on TV about how Mary and Christian met at the Sydney Olympics.
Kalo Arepo yes, she was liberal and the Danish system ancient and backwards (at the time). It took her and Christian the VIIs son, the later Frederik the VI, to reinstate the more liberal reforms, that Struense had laid the Foundation for. They were both punished when the Dowager Queen and a Minister named Ove Høegh-Guldberg completed a coup. He was executed and she was exiled to Celle in Germany, where she died a few years later. Cut off from her two children. The daughter, Louise Augusta, was always believed to have been Struense’s daughter, but it was never proven. Her brother was always very protective of her and loved her very much. When Frederik died, without leaving an heir to the throne of Denmark, she tried to put her own son forward as a potential candidate, but it ended being Frederik’s cousin, the grandson of the Dowager Empress from the movie, who ended on the throne. But that Line didn’t last long, because his son too had no heirs and then King Christian the IX came to the throne. We LOVE Mary, btw. The Crown Prince and her husband is Frederik and their oldest son is Christian. I know it’s confusing that all but one of our Kings since the 15th century, had the name Christian or Frederik. But Mary is the Best thing that happened to Frederik and their children shows a bright future for the future of the monarchy.
I have truly enjoyed the history of the Kings & Queens. What good searches of the history. I just finished my genealogy family tree and have discovered in 1100 who I am related to in the English line. The Spencer family I am related to in that year. I will continue listening. Thank you.
Just a slight correction Britain did not declare war on Germany because of france, but the UK had guaranteed Belgium independence, and when The German Empire walking through Belgium as a part of The Schlieffen Plan.
I have just found your videos and love listening to them. Thank you for sharing all these great historical stories. I was never into history until recently. I am nearly 50 now lol 😊
Great video Lindsay but I’m just wondering, why was Thyra’s children’s sections so short and summarized except for Ernest Augustus (Kaiser Wilhelm’s son-in-law)? It doesn’t seem fair especially when the stories of the children of Queen Alexandra and Tsarina Maria Feodorvna were throughly described.
Alexandra, daughter of Thyra, married grand duke Friederich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Friederich Franz's elder sister Alexandrine was married to Alexandra's cousin, king Christian 10th of Denmark. Friederich Franz's younger sister Cecile was married to crown prince Wilhelm, who was supposed to be Emperor Wilhelm 3rd of Germany, and who was a brother of Victoria Louise, who became married to Alexandra's youngest brother Ernst August.
Norway did not want to be ruled by Sweden in 1905. Norway had been under Danish rule from, 1317-1814. Harald the fair haired managed to unify Norway in 900 and something. Did we ever get the short end of the stick. Maud and her king was not living together I think from the 1920s until her death in 1938. King Olav V name was Alexander.
In 1905 Norway elected the son of then Crown Prince Frederik (8) of Denmark, as their new king. He was Prince Carl and was married to Princess Maud. He became King before his father did and took the name Haakon 7.
The heads of state of the commonwealth are not necessarily the queen. For example, I live in Cyprus, which doesn’t have the British monarch as its own. The monarchy was retained in sime commonwealth states, such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Jamaica, Australia and Canada.
So much tragedy in all directions in these families. On a lighter note, I wonder how Princess Alexandra, later the British Queen, ended up with those startling blue eyes when her siblings had brown eyes. Check out how very much her sisters Dagmar (Russian Empress Maria) and Thyra (Princess of Hanover) looked alike, being shorter and having those tremendous overbites. Alexandra had just a passing resemblance to them. I guess she looked a bit more like her ill-fated brother, King George of Greece.
👍 video. As always, illustrations are wonderful . The marriage ones are especially lovely. Photos, I haven’t seen many of them, even though I read quite a bit about royalty. You’ve actually gotten me much more interested in the Nordic royal families! Poor Tzarina. Any mother would do anything to help her child. He actually DID help the boy, even though nobody knows how/why. Cure? No. But to hear his screaming in pain for days? And he somehow stopped it...I’m not totally convinced the population wouldn’t have accepted one of the daughters, as a leader. They DID have Catherine the Great, after all. Personally, I think if they hadn’t kept the hemophilia a secret, things may have turned out differently.🤷♀️. The population may have had sympathy. I also remember the fake Anastasia, Anna. This was before DNA, and followed it. A lot of people were completely convinced, including some of the Romanovs. None of us knew for SURE. The bodies hadn’t been found, etc., and when they were, well, there WERE those two missing bodies! A fascinating story. It went on for YEARS I know it’s not your forte, but....
A small correction, Norway's union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814, only to be "given" into a union with Sweden (spoils of the Napoleonic wars). The union dissolved in 1905 was the union with Sweden :)
well there was a recent documentary in UK and germany about this event, the kaiser wilhelm II tsar nicholas II cousin : allowed the bolsheviks to travel through the german empire....by removing russia from the war, the effort could be concentrated on the west... he acordding to reports... in 1917 felt physically sick and regreted the decision, he meant to remove russia from the war, but not the assination of his own cousins and their family... George V and his wife Mary of teck wanted to help tsar nicholas II but only discreetly under a covert operation not in open support, the tsar was widely viewed by british media as a tyrant, also this could have provoced strikes,civil disorder in the UK against the monarchy etc... , british intelligence was sent by the request of george V too late and with limited information the team was sent via georgia into russia* the october revolution took everyone by suprise.... as the provisional government( the same goverment that provided for the protection of the tsar and his personal maintance was dismissed or left* in a hurry) dramatic overthrow of the provisional government(so the chaotic and hysterical scenes in the big cities and civil war ongoing between supporters of the tsar and the red army* revolutionaries and the divided others ...socialists* et al) the british simply did not have good inteligence, the mission was a faliure of wrong information and lacking time: totally disorganised to ...the plan was to rescue the tsar and his family and be taken on a british ship to crown colony*, the mission was aborted after the shocking news came of the assination of the tsar .. george V did regret not acting sooner, he was hesitant for political reasons... princess olga romanov : also recounts the same romanov story during the re-burial of the romanovs in the st peter and paul fotress in the kremlin... many of the romanovs regretted their family relations ,not doing enough too save the children...
Nicholas was the coward for not insisting his children, daughters at least, were sent away to safety until the end of the war - something that happened to a lot of families in those days and in WWII. He could have saved them - but he didn't. It certainly was not George's fault.
fascinating, lindsay has outdone herself .... great video as always... is there a tv series of christian IX in danish,english subtitles... you would think so, as he is relative of Victoria empress of India....two important royal ancestors of many 21st european royals...
To anyone who is interested in a more in-depth documentary, there's a 6-part series called A Royal Family. It's excellent and has interviews with several of his descendents like Queen Margrethe or Prince Michael of Kent. ruclips.net/video/qN9ViNXpY7g/видео.html
A Royal Family is a GREAT series with wonderful interviews of the descendants from all over Europe. I am a fan of Queen Margrethe current queen of Denmark, in particular. 😊 One word of caution, however. There are some glitches in several of the videos where long sections of audio are missing. You can see the people talking but can't hear them. So frustrating! But there's enough to hear, see and love in the series that I still highly recommend it.
What I was going to say was, how come the Russian Orthodox had better sense than allowing first (if any) cousins to marry. The Catholic and Protestant churches allowed cousins to marry, not to mention the Hapsburgs with their incest?
Grand Duchess Tatiana is probably the prettiest royal I’ve even seen. In the full family portrait, she’s seated to the far right. So poised and elegant.
Oh, the general history us so unright about Nikolai II! He tried his best and was really afraid of harming anyone's feelings, that's why there was never a desicive 'no' from him to any of the ideas expressed by his courtmen. Ksenia's husband Alexander Mihailovich (who also was her first cousin ONCE REMOVED and not just first cousin, as is said in this video) wrote in his memoirs that Nikolai had certain qualities which made him a marvellous person and a weak tzar at the same time.
Norway was in a union with Sweden, not Denmark. If Norway had been in a union with Denmark, I don’t think the Norwegian government would have offered the Norwegian crown to a prince of a country they had just broken away from
Kudos to the Woman who held george while he died. Such an act of kindness to not leave a dying man alone
Maria Feodorovna found the woman and talked to her and thanked her.
@@denbesten25 thank you for that piece of information. That is wonderful to know
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I wonder who the Woman was?
Do any of you know?
I worked at a nicu in Spain for a while. Some kids are abandoned by their family, mostly kids of drug-adict mothers that kept using during pregnancy.
When it was noticed that one of those kids was not going to make it, someone voluntered to hold them while they died.
I did it once, my coleagues took the tubes out and I held him against my skin rubbing his back slowly for around 45 minutes until the machines stopped beeping.
I'm glad I could help that tiny one to have peace in his last moments
It’s crazy how him and Queen Victoria basically have the same family tree
At one point, Christian IX had a crush on Victoria but she was more interested in Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It took him some time to get over her, but at least they were the grandparents of George V of the UK.
It's called incest!
They were also cousins. Queen Victoria, King Christian and Queen Louise of Denmark were descendants of King George II of Great Britain. He was their great great grandfather.
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Who him?
Why are these video so addicting???? Someone send help, I might binge these again
Aesthethic Adam McCartney me too!!
I love this series so much
This is at least the third time watching these!
Just surrender, make yourself comfy and enjoy it, with a pot of tea and a few slices of cake.
Same
I’d never seen the portrait of Alexandra and Alexei holding her pearls. It’s so tender and lovely.
So sad that he and Maria haven’t been properly buried, like the bodies are RIGHT THERE. Just give them some dignity for Christ’s sake.
That portrait broke my heart! I feel bad for them... 😭
They have ALL been reburied: Zar Nicolai, his zarina and their 5 children.
They have been buried in St Peter and Paul cathedral.
Estrid Melissa I’m not so sure about that. The last updates from the church are that they still require more genetic evidence before a burial can take place
@@Maridun50 as of 2018, Alexei and either Anastasia or Maria (no positive ID of who is who) are still unburied. Their bones remain in the state archives due to Church political games.
Re: Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. As stated in the video, she died in Ontario, Canada - I believe near Toronto.
Two years ago, the Smiths Falls Museum had an exhibit with a number of her personal effects and artwork. It was quite a coup for such a tiny small-town museum, located very close to where I grew up! But it seems after she died, a number of her items went to friends of hers, and either those friends or their descendants now live in Brockville, Ontario, which is about a 45 minute drive from the aforementioned museum and about a 90 minute drive from Ottawa.
Having long been interested in the Russian Imperial Family, and having found Olga's story particularly fascinating, I thought it was pretty cool to be able to see her things at this small little museum in the middle of nowhere!
She died in Toronto, and is buried at the York Cemetery (with her husband and both sons), in the North York area of the city. She died just seven months after her sister, Xenia.
That moment when some of them are repeated from the Queen Vic’s grandchildren video🤣🤣🤣
They are all connected. The European royal tree only had a few branches. Thanks to Queen Elizabeth's father, they stopped all that nonsense.
Yeah she does that a lot I still like her videos though
Julie Scales Phillip and Elizabeth are 3rd cousins....
@@zoezhang5413 they’re second cousins through Christian IX I think
@@747Sean no, second cousins once removed, as Phillip's grandfather George I, was a sibling of Queen Elizabeth II's great grandmother Queen consort Alexandra.
Grand Duchess Olga was my favorite. She had such and adventurous life and easy and warm smile. 😁
My favourite is Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria! She was the sweetest and kindest of them❤💫
I wonder why Olga and her mother didn’t get along if her mother was so adaptable and sweet??
@@sananoor6616 Alix actually struggled to adapt to the strict and orthodox Russian court.
@@sananoor6616 Alexandra was not adaptable nor sweet.
The videos of this channel are very addictive and I can glady add this video to the list. The last two are my absolute favs. King Christian the ninth did have fascinating descendants.
If I don't come out of quarantine with a history degree then I haven't spent my time wisely
Note about Norway. At that time Norway was in union with Sweden, not Denmark😊
I was confused about that! Thanks🥰
correct.
Idk why but I cried when I saw Grand Duchess Olga's smiling pictures.
She seems so happy and warm like everybody's kind grandma.
You won't believe how I've been flexing in school during my last history lessons :)
Great video as always! I think you would love to look up the story of the daughters of King Michael (Miguel) of Portugal. He went to exile and had 6 daughters which married all throughout Europe. Some of the families mentioned here also descent from these 6 ladies!
This video was great!! Just a suggestion for an upcoming video can you do the children of tsar Nicholas the second, Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia and Alexei. There story is so sweet and yet so tragic and I would love to learn more about them!!
5:57; Norway was in a union with Sweden at the time, not Denmark. The Denmark-Norway union dissolved in 1814.
Tsar Nicholas and King George V could be twins. They look so alike.
Their mothers were nearly identical
@@thematthew761 yeah because they were sisters
Exactly!
@@clairefordzetterstrom9973 I know
Albert is very similar to Nicholas too
my grandfather enjoys watching this channel so much! ❤❤❤
Nicholas: we are in the middle of a war with Germany! I'm going to the front line and lead my army!
People: but them, who will be in charge of Russia while you're gone?
Nicholas: my GERMAN wife and the mystical weird man, Rasputin!
Good call, Nicholas... Good call... 😒
People: RIOT
Nicholas: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!?!
Wife: Take a wild guess
George V aaaalmost made Ireland our own nation.. he just created the republic of ireland, they kept 6 counties and still have them today - Northern Ireland is the worlds oldest colony it just isnt spoken about abroad for some reason. Love your videos so much
I’m just here for the Romanovs honestly
Personally, I think that we shouldn't martyr them! The Czar's poor leadership led to the death of his family, whom paid for the Czar's crimes! Let's not forget that!
@@fredrika27 as an avid history buff, who's studied this stuff most of my life...in my free time....maturity has shown me alot. Horrible choices, especially when you have the wealth and people around you to do better. Totally out of touch! It was all so awful, but their failure to rise above naivete and Victorian superficial expectations, and the whole imperial/God complex was a disaster!
@@kenny808kine8 I totally agree with you! What's worse Queen Elizabeth has also made poor choices from the beginning of her reign, yet we are to be full of praise for these families who just don't get it! I think the Swedish and Norwegian royal families get it and are very down to earth which will bold their houses well! You don't hear about the grey coats stopping their royals happiness and choice of wives!
@@fredrika27 I don't think you have to martyr someone to feel pity at the fate that befell them, especially the children. It's completely possible to accept that the Romanovs were flawed rulers, and the brutal murders of their kin were horrible, both.
@@Nikolaj11 I understand what you are saying about the children. However, I have noticed over the last few years, people calling for the return of the royal family to Russia, which I've visited! I've nothing against the monarchy, but everything against government using the family to deflect from Russia's social and economic problems. Not only that, many, not all, Russian royalists are also white supremacists--as if we need more people like that in the world!
In 1905 Norway dissolved the unpopular union with Sweden which had been imposed on Norway in 1814 and NOT Denmark. Before 1814 Denmark and Norway were ruled by the Danish Crown. Therefore it is not surprising that the Norwegians chose the Danish Prince Carl who changed his name to the more Norwegian Haakon.
This channel is so underrated. I love your videos and I never thought i’d enjoy learning about this stuff, but you do it so well! Keep it up PLEASE :)
This is the channel I have needed since I was ten years old xxx
i’m here! haven’t even watched it yet and i already know it’ll be a good video
@lindsayholiday YOU ARE A LEGEND IN MY HOUSEHOLD!!! Thank You for blessing us with your talent and information
Do Descendents of the Sons of the Daughters
And Descendents of the Daughters of the Daughters
This is slowly turning into a Legacy Challenge (SIMS4) :)
That’s way too many people
@@davidcorruthers78 Yeah, that´s kind of the point :)
im telling rn i am so dedicated to this channel like these niche history topics give me so much joy
I still love Victoria, but she comes across as overbearing, shrewish, and at least she could be, but her grandchildren and beyond lives show how debilitating her helicopter monarching played out. Sad about Albert, he may have evened her out although they had their rows!
I kind of get the feeling she actually hated children and only had them because it was required of her.
@@Ikajo It is likely that she had post-partum depressions and couldn't connect to her children.
@@Furienna Doesn't explain why she thought her daughter-in-law shouldn't care for _her_ own children. And even with post-partum you can connect later. Not doing so is a choice.
@@Ikajo literally, they didn't have contraception and she tried things. I think one of the old "remedies" was cow dung on a woman's genitals the next morning.
@@Ikajo Well, it is well-known that mothers-in-law can be quite nasty. Victoria had never been a doting mother herself either, so it was hard for her to understand why any other woman was one. That said, it is not like she never connected to her children when they were grown up.
Thyra is easier to pronounce if you say the "Thy" like the beginning of the word "Tiara". It's a beautiful name, my great paternal grandmother was named that as well. Thank you for making these videos, they have kept me great company since covid began.
Im from Fife!! I absolutely love your videos, thank you for creating them x
Correction on Louise: she hat two daughters and a stillborn son. Victoria rewrote the Letters Patent for the Fife Dukedom to allow Louise's daughters to succeed.
omg i'm so early 😮 i love your content so much!! 💓
I love all of your videos! Your voice is so calming and I actually learn something from them! Keep up the good work!
Did you know that Victoria, daughter of Edward VII,Was The childhood crush of Nicholas II of Russia
omg? that would have been such a plot twist though
LINDSAY BACK AT IT AGAIN
Great content Lindsay!!! Keep it up!!
Love your channel!
Thanks Lindsay xxxx
I love your videos so much that the second I get the notification I don’t hesitate and I click it to watch ♥️
Thank you for another great video Lindsay!💕
HIH Grand Duchess Xenia lived in, Wilderness House in the Grounds of Hampton Court Palace. She lived there until her death in 1960.
These videos about the Danish royal family are so fascinating . Thanks for doing these :)
I absolutely love your videos! Never miss them! Thank you!
Your so informed. I love your work. Can you please talk in a future video about all the princesses of Wales?
Love this channel 💖
The most interesting documentary I have ever seen! Well done indeed!
Great video! Many Thanks!
Another amazing educational video thank you xx
King Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel were second cousins to each other and third cousins to Queen Victoria.& her husband consort Prince albert of Saxe Coburg..
Prince Albert and Empress Victoria of India were also first cousins too each other.....
their common ancestor was Otto I (912 - 973), Otto the Great : German king - Holy Roman Emperor & Duke of saxony....
Well done video!
You should make more videos on Danish royals. Such fascinating history they have:
Christian the X who unpopularly overthrew the government in 1920, but was a figure of hope during WW2.
Christian the VII, who was mentally unstable, and his wife Queen Caroline Mathilde, who had a well known affair, that caused the change of the monarchy up to the time before democracy.
Christian the IV, without whom the Danish capitol of Copenhagen would not look like it does today.
Frederik the III, who instated absolute monarchy and went to war against Sweden.
Queen Louise, Christian the IXs wife, who actually had a bigger claim to the Danish throne than her husband.
Queen Ingrid, the Consort of King Frederik the IX and the mother of the current Queen of Denmark.
And far far more.
There is a fairly recent feature movie about the Danish queen who had an affair with a German aristocrat -I think his name was von Struensee.
Kalo Arepo His name was Johann Friedrich Struense and the movie is called “En Kongelig Affære” (“A royal affair” in English). I know this movie very well. I’m Danish myself, after all ;)
And he wasn’t an aristocrat. He was the King’s Doctor and from poor conditions. As Well as Enlightened.
@@christinaj.jensen4805 I watched the movie about a year ago and have forgotten some of the details but the queen in question was the daughter of the English king if I remember correctly and she was quite liberal whereas the Danish monarchy was very conservative and ancien regime at the time.Struensee was a great reformer but lost his life because of the affair.I'm Australian and of course so is your crown princess Mary.There has been a mini series on TV about how Mary and Christian met at the Sydney Olympics.
Kalo Arepo yes, she was liberal and the Danish system ancient and backwards (at the time). It took her and Christian the VIIs son, the later Frederik the VI, to reinstate the more liberal reforms, that Struense had laid the Foundation for. They were both punished when the Dowager Queen and a Minister named Ove Høegh-Guldberg completed a coup. He was executed and she was exiled to Celle in Germany, where she died a few years later. Cut off from her two children. The daughter, Louise Augusta, was always believed to have been Struense’s daughter, but it was never proven. Her brother was always very protective of her and loved her very much. When Frederik died, without leaving an heir to the throne of Denmark, she tried to put her own son forward as a potential candidate, but it ended being Frederik’s cousin, the grandson of the Dowager Empress from the movie, who ended on the throne. But that Line didn’t last long, because his son too had no heirs and then King Christian the IX came to the throne.
We LOVE Mary, btw. The Crown Prince and her husband is Frederik and their oldest son is Christian. I know it’s confusing that all but one of our Kings since the 15th century, had the name Christian or Frederik. But Mary is the Best thing that happened to Frederik and their children shows a bright future for the future of the monarchy.
I love your video's a lot.
I am from the Netherlands so I would love to see something about the Dutch royal family
Well done, another wonderful video!
Awesome video!!
Love the content! Keep it comin' please 💗
I’m enjoying all these videos. You have a lovely way of presenting the stories of the royal families.
Great vid! 😊 Thank you
I really love your videos. Keep it coming!
I have truly enjoyed the history of the Kings & Queens. What good searches of the history. I just finished my genealogy family tree and have discovered in 1100 who I am related to in the English line. The Spencer family I am related to in that year. I will continue listening. Thank you.
Love listening to your videos while I'm studying :)
It seems like the girls inherited most of the brains in the family. Glad that they and their descendants found some happiness in this life.
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Just a slight correction Britain did not declare war on Germany because of france, but the UK had guaranteed Belgium independence, and when The German Empire walking through Belgium as a part of The Schlieffen Plan.
I have just found your videos and love listening to them. Thank you for sharing all these great historical stories. I was never into history until recently. I am nearly 50 now lol 😊
Great video Lindsay but I’m just wondering, why was Thyra’s children’s sections so short and summarized except for Ernest Augustus (Kaiser Wilhelm’s son-in-law)? It doesn’t seem fair especially when the stories of the children of Queen Alexandra and Tsarina Maria Feodorvna were throughly described.
True.
Agreed it was super summarized as compared to the eldest 2 daughters
Thank you sharing this
Thank you
Federica of Hanover is the grandmother of the King of Spain through his mother Queen Sofia
Thank you this is so interesting. You did a great job.
Thanks for sharing. Wonderful
Too bad that Nikolai ignores Xenia's advice :(
I really enjoyed learning about this family tree
Xenia was my great grand aunts grandmother. She was awesome.
Soooooo interesting! I love it here
Alexandra, daughter of Thyra, married grand duke Friederich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Friederich Franz's elder sister Alexandrine was married to Alexandra's cousin, king Christian 10th of Denmark. Friederich Franz's younger sister Cecile was married to crown prince Wilhelm, who was supposed to be Emperor Wilhelm 3rd of Germany, and who was a brother of Victoria Louise, who became married to Alexandra's youngest brother Ernst August.
Absolutely fascinating! Lindsey can recite the phone book and make it exciting!!
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Norway did not want to be ruled by Sweden in 1905. Norway had been under Danish rule from, 1317-1814. Harald the fair haired managed to unify Norway in 900 and something. Did we ever get the short end of the stick. Maud and her king was not living together I think from the 1920s until her death in 1938. King Olav V name was Alexander.
In 1905 Norway elected the son of then Crown Prince Frederik (8) of Denmark, as their new king. He was Prince Carl and was married to Princess Maud. He became King before his father did and took the name Haakon 7.
The heads of state of the commonwealth are not necessarily the queen. For example, I live in Cyprus, which doesn’t have the British monarch as its own. The monarchy was retained in sime commonwealth states, such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Jamaica, Australia and Canada.
Please do a video on the descendants of king Christian of Denmark's sons
Depends on which Christian ;) there are 10 of them :P but if it's Christian the IX, she says at the end of the video there will be one next.
The life of the royals are certainly colorful
So much tragedy in all directions in these families. On a lighter note, I wonder how Princess Alexandra, later the British Queen, ended up with those startling blue eyes when her siblings had brown eyes. Check out how very much her sisters Dagmar (Russian Empress Maria) and Thyra (Princess of Hanover) looked alike, being shorter and having those tremendous overbites. Alexandra had just a passing resemblance to them. I guess she looked a bit more like her ill-fated brother, King George of Greece.
👍 video. As always, illustrations are wonderful . The marriage ones are especially lovely. Photos, I haven’t seen many of them, even though I read quite a bit about royalty. You’ve actually gotten me much more interested in the Nordic royal families! Poor Tzarina. Any mother would do anything to help her child. He actually DID help the boy, even though nobody knows how/why. Cure? No. But to hear his screaming in pain for days? And he somehow stopped it...I’m not totally convinced the population wouldn’t have accepted one of the daughters, as a leader. They DID have Catherine the Great, after all. Personally, I think if they hadn’t kept the hemophilia a secret, things may have turned out differently.🤷♀️. The population may have had sympathy. I also remember the fake Anastasia, Anna. This was before DNA, and followed it. A lot of people were completely convinced, including some of the Romanovs. None of us knew for SURE. The bodies hadn’t been found, etc., and when they were, well, there WERE those two missing bodies! A fascinating story. It went on for YEARS I know it’s not your forte, but....
They have all been found now. Such a sad ending.
A small correction, Norway's union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814, only to be "given" into a union with Sweden (spoils of the Napoleonic wars). The union dissolved in 1905 was the union with Sweden :)
I must admit when George the 5th he did not saving Nikolai and his family it shows he was a coward
well there was a recent documentary in UK and germany about this event, the kaiser wilhelm II tsar nicholas II cousin :
allowed the bolsheviks to travel through the german empire....by removing russia from the war, the effort could be concentrated on the west...
he acordding to reports... in 1917 felt physically sick and regreted the decision, he meant to remove russia from the war, but not the assination of his own cousins and their family...
George V and his wife Mary of teck wanted to help tsar nicholas II but only discreetly under a covert operation not in open support, the tsar was widely viewed by british media as a tyrant, also this could have provoced strikes,civil disorder in the UK against the monarchy etc...
, british intelligence was sent by the request of george V
too late and with limited information
the team was sent via georgia into russia* the october revolution took everyone by suprise....
as the provisional government( the same goverment that provided for the protection of the tsar and his personal maintance was dismissed or left* in a hurry)
dramatic overthrow of the provisional government(so the chaotic and hysterical scenes in the big cities and civil war ongoing between supporters of the tsar and the red army* revolutionaries and the divided others ...socialists* et al)
the british simply did not have good inteligence, the mission was a faliure of wrong information and lacking time: totally disorganised to ...the plan was to rescue the tsar and his family and be taken on a british ship to crown colony*,
the mission was aborted after the shocking news came of the assination of the tsar ..
george V did regret not acting sooner, he was hesitant for political reasons... princess olga romanov : also recounts the same romanov story during the re-burial of the romanovs in the st peter and paul fotress in the kremlin... many of the romanovs regretted their family relations ,not doing enough too save the children...
A man has to put his close family above the needs of his extended one.
Nicholas was the coward for not insisting his children, daughters at least, were sent away to safety until the end of the war - something that happened to a lot of families in those days and in WWII. He could have saved them - but he didn't. It certainly was not George's fault.
Just politics. To keep his own head and those of his family, firmly on their shoulders.
Saving them would be a war crime
I love your channel so much lindsay please make a video about african and americans mornachs also asian
fascinating, lindsay has outdone herself ....
great video as always...
is there a tv series of christian IX in danish,english subtitles...
you would think so, as he is relative of Victoria empress of India....two important royal ancestors of many 21st european royals...
love ur channel
To anyone who is interested in a more in-depth documentary, there's a 6-part series called A Royal Family. It's excellent and has interviews with several of his descendents like Queen Margrethe or Prince Michael of Kent. ruclips.net/video/qN9ViNXpY7g/видео.html
A Royal Family is a GREAT series with wonderful interviews of the descendants from all over Europe. I am a fan of Queen Margrethe current queen of Denmark, in particular. 😊
One word of caution, however. There are some glitches in several of the videos where long sections of audio are missing. You can see the people talking but can't hear them. So frustrating! But there's enough to hear, see and love in the series that I still highly recommend it.
I love "A Royal Family" documentary, I've watched it 5 or six times
@@danielleporter1829 same here 😀
What I was going to say was, how come the Russian Orthodox had better sense than allowing first (if any) cousins to marry. The Catholic and Protestant churches allowed cousins to marry, not to mention the Hapsburgs with their incest?
The Russian Orthodox Church only banned marriages between first cousins. More distant cousins were granted permission to do so.
It's Habsburg and it was not incent. It was inbreeding, just like the others, just in a more excessive amount
The churches' leadership barely live up to Biblical standards. They've aprroved far worse things in the course of history.
Can you you do Mary queen of scots
Grand Duchess Tatiana is probably the prettiest royal I’ve even seen. In the full family portrait, she’s seated to the far right. So poised and elegant.
I want all of those outfits
Im the 50th view. I was so early just 2 minute after upload
Oh, the general history us so unright about Nikolai II! He tried his best and was really afraid of harming anyone's feelings, that's why there was never a desicive 'no' from him to any of the ideas expressed by his courtmen. Ksenia's husband Alexander Mihailovich (who also was her first cousin ONCE REMOVED and not just first cousin, as is said in this video) wrote in his memoirs that Nikolai had certain qualities which made him a marvellous person and a weak tzar at the same time.
please make a documentary about consuelo vanderbilt.thank you
lindsey
Hi, I have a request: can you do a video about King John I of Portugal and his descendents. Thank you
Norway was in a union with Sweden, not Denmark. If Norway had been in a union with Denmark, I don’t think the Norwegian government would have offered the Norwegian crown to a prince of a country they had just broken away from
Very interesting:)