10 Ridiculous Rumors about Historic Royals
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2023
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The public loves a good story about the salacious private lives of the rich and famous. And royals often really did get up to some jaw-dropping behaviors. But sometimes a grain of rumor can be so enthralling that it snowballs into an unshakable myth. If you ask the average person what they know about Catherine the Great they are likely to say “Isn’t she the one who was crushed under a horse?” Many are still convinced that Queen Elizabeth I was really a man. And Marie Antionette will forever be linked with the misquote “Let them eat cake!” Today let’s explore 10 commonly believed myths about historic royals, examine how the rumors got started and separate what is gospel from what is just gossip.
Anne Boleyn was a Witch with 6 Fingers
Mary I was Bloody Mary
Elizabeth I was actually a Man
Queen Juana was Loca
Marie Antoinette said “Let Them Eat Cake”
Catherine the Great Loved Horse, Literally
Napoleon told Josephine “I will return in three days. Don’t wash!”
Prince Albert had a Prince Albert Piercing
Prince Albert Victor was really Jack the Ripper
Elizabeth II had 4 cocktails a day
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Nothing is funnier to me than when I was a sophomore in highschool and being taught that “yes Marie Antoinette said that because she was a spoiled brat” then my sister being taught by the same teacher 4 years later and her being taught “actually no that wasn’t true and she never said that” lol
If that's the funniest thing you've heard then you need to get out more. A lot more.
@@michaelhowell2326 it was never that deep can you calm down ??????
@@creamii7017 no
Only one who needs to get out more is you 😂
@@michaelhowell2326 relax 😂😂
Elizabeth's life before becoming queen: mom is killed by dad, stepmother Jane dies at childbirth, stepmother Howard goes down the same way as mom, suffered c.s.a. by Seymour, final stepmother dies in childbirth, sister gets married and it's a disaster, cousin Mary's marriages helped her downfall...
Elizabeth: I don't want to marry, it seems bad.
People: SHE'S ACTUALLY A MAN IN DRESSES!
Sounds legit 💁🏻♀️
Pfft some people have weird logic. And if Elizabeth was male then why would Henry make her pass as a female. He wanted a son and would have rejoiced and Anne would have lived.
Not to mention the man she maybe would have considered marrying (Robert Dudley) came from a family with a toxic history connected to treason, was married when she ascended the throne, and the mysterious death of his first wife put to bed any possibility of them being together without scandal. Not that she didn’t take out her rage on any other women he was involved with…especially a Boleyn cousin he eventually married, Lettice Knollys, who she called “She Wolf.”
@@moondivine2288 the story is that as a child the real Elizabeth died and tge nurse found a male child that looked like her to avoid Henry's wrath.
Bit difficult to do a gender switch at that stage, so they would have had to pass the child as a female.
@@lilymarinovic1644good grief. Why not go the whole hog and say she was kidnapped by fairies and the changeling was a boy.
I grew up in 1950s UK as an Roman Catholic. We looked on her as an evil murdering heretic. She seemed to enjoy hanging, drawing and quartering Catholics. But no one that I ever heard suggested she was really a man despite the bias. Of course Protestants were taught to despise her sister Mary.
If Elizabeth were actually a man, why on Earth would Henry NOT proclaim his “son and heir” and why would Elizabeth choose not to rule as a king? That rumor makes not sense from any angle.
Cause elizabeth was killed in a horse accident. Then she was replace with a young stable boy.
I call bullshit. That would never happen. She was too well guarded. If she had died don't think they would have cared. She was last in line.
@@aimeeneely4971"nobody would care if she died". Yeah but became the most effective ruler in English history.
No, you misunderstood the story. Henry was fooled into thinking his daughter Elizabeth was still alive.
@howtubeable right because everyone so so afraid of henry and the entire staff thought they would all be killed.
I don’t BLAME Elizabeth for not wanting to marry after losing her mom and then watching others either get divorced executed or cuckold plus being sexually abused young and the expectation of being obedient to her husband…..like yeah no.
And Juana was tragic I think the religious torture and her family vying for the throne traumatized her.
that whole Hapsburg dynasty was messed up, right until its end.
@@voxveritas333 Although interestingly, Juana wasn’t a Habsburg, her legal name was Juana Trastamara before she married Phillip. She was most likely mentally ill due to previous genetics and/ or the abuse from her parents.
Don't forget that Mary Tudor came thisclose to signing her death warrant--twice!
@@katemaloney4296
one of the sisters of
Henry VIII? or his daughter?
@@noorbohamad5796 daughter. Mary Tudor Senior was long dead at Elizabeth’s imprisonment.
I find it ironic that Anne Boleyn was accused of being a witch, especially since Henry VIII’s maternal line is associated with similar rumors. His great-grandmother, Jaquetta, once married to a brother of Henry V, was even formally accused of witchcraft!
Well, that was one of the easiest way to execute woman in history.
Right?!
So was his grandmother Elizabeth Woodville. They’re my great grandmothers.
@@puclopuclik4108 In Europian history that is the easiest way to off a queen in many other cultures is accuse her of having an affair pray to the gods that the king believes you and watch the fire burn
Lots of people were accused of witchcraft, by neighbors who didn't like them, or by people who wanted to own their lands, etc. You wanted to get rid of somebody, all you had to do is to accuse them of witchcraft. What's more surprising is that people managed to survive the accusations. There wasn't any "innocent until proven guilty", being accused would usually mean death or disability caused by the torture of the "question/interrogation". Jacquetta of Luxemburg survived, probably because she was a noble woman. Most people accused of witchcraft did not survive.
It's really terrifying how psychopathic Henry 8th was. All these rumors and sullied reputations all serve to show that it was Henry was truly the worst type of bully!
And yet a fantastically intelligent and forward thinking monarch. So much was developed in his reign and he was a decent composer among many other interests and pursuits
@@lisbetsoda4874 At what cost exactly? Many rulers have shown that they could progress their nation without causing scandals and chaos.
Right, and I often say he was among the first to edit/catfish his photos to make himself look better. The story goes that an artist painted him in his later years, and he was so appalled at what he saw that he made the artist repaint it to make him look younger and thinner...lol
@@KL-ki8db rulers of old times were all rather brutal seen with our eyes. He was notorious for his 6 wives and for splitting from the Catholic Church, mainly. It was also a time of very forward thinking by him and the British. Architecture built during his reign was/is phenomenal. The arts had a rebirth, and it was a fascinating time that began with him and then his daughter.
@@lisbetsoda4874 There was no question of brutality of the olden days, but there is the point of my original comment stating others of the past have reformed their nations for the better without causing political upheaval within their country. Also, the Protestant reformation that he became known for wasn’t even done because he truly believed in reform but rather to benefit himself to get a convenient annulment. There wasn’t really any forward thinking of his “religious reforms” because he still squashed down actual Protestant reformations like that of Anne Askew or even the near arrest of his own wife Catherine Parr. It was obvious that he was still a Catholic such as the refusal of allowing the common people to read the Bible in their vernacular language and thus the justification of him splitting from the Catholic Church was done for his gain and not necessarily for the allowance of new reformist ideas to enter his realm.
At the very end with Elizabeth II, all I could think was “and if she did?”. That lady held one of the toughest jobs for most of her adult life. If she wanted four alcoholic drinks a day I don’t think she should be judged😂
So true, so true! I have much respect for her!!
I'm with you there. It's not like she was slurring, stumbling and had a keg attached to her like an oxygen tank. That lady was admirable.
4 drinks spread throughout a day is honestly NOT enough to cause her to be "pickled". One in the morning. Then 1 or two after a few hours. Then one with dinner... that probably averages out to one drink per 3 to 4 HOURS. When you consider one unit of alcohol takes the average person one hour to metabolize ... unless she was consuming all 4 in the space of 1 to 2 hours she would have never risen even into SLIGHTLY TIPSY during the day
People now get so tripped about drinking now. Agree. So what? 🤷♀️ Agree with everyone here.
I idolized her and thus doesn't matter how much she drank...
I refuse to call Mary I “Bloody Mary”. She doesn’t deserve it. However, I will forever call her father “Murderous bratty Henry”. Love your channel!
I agree, yes Harry was a complete jerk and is a perfect example of why people should earn the right to be a leader not be born into it or just be born into money, I will say that Mary did deal with tons of unacceptable crap but still was wrong for her slaughter of so many people, but Elizabeth was just as bad, she just had better propaganda. Now no matter what the evil concept that a person should have to be told what religion to follow, and the fight about religion dude they were just mad about how to properly pray to the same go wtf man
She absolutely 💯 did deserve it!! She was horrific and the horrible things that happened to her do not excuse any of it.
#MurderousBrattyHenry
I also don't agree calling her that. But still, the body counts in the video don't make sense at all. Of course Elizabeth had a higher count, she also ruled much much longer. And Henry, well I don't think we have to talk about him, he's a category of his own in brutality and narcissism.
@@evaviktoria90Maybe so, but looking at the wider scope of Europe, she still gets a bad rep compared to Catherine de Medici and Isabella of Castille who are considered "strong female monarchs" despite the religious prosecutions of there own reigns. Why no "Bloody Isabella" or "Bloody Catherine"? Mary is just the victim of effective propaganda.
The only rumor about Elizabeth I that I truly believe is that she did have a baby with Robert Dudley but gave the baby away because she was so afraid of any succession crisis due to her father's deliberate mismanagement of his own marriages and children. I've said it before. And I'll say it again. Prince Arthur dying as a teen is literally the most pivotal moment in history 😔
No worse than Prince Henry dying and leaving the throne to the future Charles I or Edward IV dying young and leaving a child as Edward V.
I don't think so cause the rumors were spread years after Elizabeth died by a minor noble or merchant in order to sell some product he needs to sell some fake story to gain traction
I think that a baby with Robert Dudley may have been a possiblity.
It would have been impossible to keep that a secret.
Perhaps not in all history, but maybe in "common era" British history. Definitely made things crazy.
The “because they hurt his feelings” and “We’ll, good old misogyny” hahaha Im so happy I’m living in this era and that we have access to RUclips to see another perspective on history haha thank you Lindsay!!!
Also the rumors about Elizabeth I… the things some men invent so that they don’t have to accept they are not wanted hahah
No such thing as misogyny
Misogyny actually has kept you and your people alive in this world, you think men just wanted to be mean and hateful but truly that's where you're wrong ! Along with being a leader men also very much had chivalry! But women who insecure much like yourself just had to weasel into men's business all the time and create a dysfunctional society that we have now where don't even want to be men because of overbearing women and mothers ! It's a damn shame what feminist movement has done to our Western people and Western kind ! I could see why some women was justifiably called witches because you created problems in well functioning society's where money and resources was good and ppl lived well because our westmen made it so !! Just stop and go get unbrainwashed
@@glovaldebenitowomen are the ones who are not of sound mind! Stop your man hating
@@whoareyou7351 yea sure, countries like Afghanistan treat women so well...
Can we just acknowledge that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert should be considered as one of the greatest love stories of all time? I don't know about you, but I think it's adorable how they were so serious as political figures and the face of the nation they literally kept the extensive passion for each other behind closed doors. This love was so hot to handle they actually reigned that ish in for sake of appearances.
Why not also maybe Queen Victoria’s paternal grandparents King George III❤Queen Charlotte minus the whole excruciating mental health stuff
It always drives me nuts when people compare Mary and Elizabeth's death tolls. Mary reigned for 5 years and Elizabeth for 44 years. Comparably, Elizabeth's death tolls are super small. She also tried for years NOT to kill Mary Queen of Scots. Only when there was irrefutable evidence and it broke her heart. She was not perfect, but her sister had some real anger issues.
I agree if you do the math Mary executed an average of 56 per year of her reign, while Elizabeth averaged 14 to 15 people per year. Big difference. Henry has no justification he's just bad.
I get that but the point of the comparison is that people act like Mary was the only killer in the family or some kind of evil monster that stands out from other Tudor’s, or that Elizabeth was a golden angel, they all killed people.
I understand Mary I her dad did shit to her didn't let her see her mom while she was dying and was treated like shit by her father and being alone after her mom was forced to leave without her she was so close to her mom and dad then see the changes on the dad who cheerish her a lot and gave her a sweet nickname turned in a monster so I understand her
You took the words out of my mouth
@@Angel-ts8rc Totally true. Rulers back then definitely all had blood on their hands. I think she gets the moniker because obviously so many of the executions were based on her religious furor(not that Elizabeths weren't) and need to bring England back to the Catholic faith. What she didn't understand was that was likely never gonna occur. Once Elizabeth took over she was always gonna be painted badly.
He wasn't even 5'2" in today's height, that was in french feet! He was more like 5'6", perfectly normal height back then. He did, however, have generals who were exceptionally tall, which may have given rise to the rumour.
Correct, but, I have noticed the lady who creates these videos has a lot of errors in them.
@@user-lz5tg9oj9rI have too which is why I unsubscribed a long time ago and when she came up I forgot that until I saw this comment now I remember. I gotta block her channel
@@user-lz5tg9oj9r please tell me if you can remember some of her mistakes. I watch this chsnnel a lot but esnt to know when something is not true pls
Supposedly, after the birth of their 9th child, Victoria’s doctor suggested that this be their last child. Victoria supposedly replied “ Am I not to have fun in the bedroom anymore?” Prince Albert died 2 years later
Actually, Albert died four years later. Beatrice was born in 1857; Albert died in 1861.
My late mother was an expert cake maker and was asked once to make a Dolly Varden cake in the image of Marie Antoinette. Mum did such a great job and was paid well for it. She made another one and entered it into the Royal Show - Cake exhibition and won first prize. She spent so much time and money on those cakes, but the Antoinette one was one of my favourites.
Queen elizabeth being a man makes me just so angry. And then when people try to argue that is actually real. It makes me so mad.
How do you feel about "Pope Joan?" Woman pretending to be a man.
@@LJB103
Did "Pope Joan"
really exist?
@@here_we_go_again2571 Maybe yes, but most likely no. But people want to believe in her - and Prester John - and that Frederick Barbarossa will come back.
@@LJB103
People love mysteries and conspiracy
theories. "What if ....." is always a
challenge to begin speculating.
My 9th grade history teacher insisted that was true. He said no woman could be that smart, and when child Elizabeth died, they passed a changeling off as her, because he was the only redhead they could find.
The thing that you have to consider when trying to compare Mary's body count to Elizabeth's is the length of their reigns. Elizabeth executed an average of 14.4 people per year of her reign, while Mary executed an average of 56 people per year. So Elizabeth killed 3-4 times as many people as her sister, but she ruled 9x longer as well. Their dad still has both sisters beat in overall quantity and average though.
Even with the longer length of Elizabeth’s reign, I get the impression she was more tolerant at first, skewing this a bit, and it was only excommunication from the Pope in 1570 that changed her initial plan for religious tolerance. Henry VIII’s executions started right away, but there was a notable escalation when he chose to break with Rome. Mary’s body count is perhaps notable *because* of how short and intense it was. Yearly averages don’t take in mind that context. That doesn’t mean Mary isn’t unfairly maligned, as her father still outdoes her, but these yearly averages don’t take into account the context, with Henry and Elizabeth being far bloodier in the latter parts of their reigns than earlier on.
You realize even within four years Henry still killed more than Mary did in her four year reign. She still doesn't deserve that name of Bloody Mary when countless leaders of that time were just as harsh as her or worse like her father who simply killed people if they didn't like what he enjoyed etc.
When talking strictly about religion, which is what people generally refer to when talking about the kill counts, Mary killed more than Elizabeth. Executing rebels and those who attempted to overthrow the crown was completely normal for the time, but Mary killed 288 people for religious reasons in 5 years, whereas Elizabeth killed 190 in 44 years. That’s why Mary was so bloody, her sheer rate of religious persecution
The reason why Mary is called Bloody Mary is because of Protestant resentment. You won't hear many British people call Elizabeth 1or Henry 8 Bloody because they are responsible for their state religion. Mary 1 tried to erase and replace that religion with Catholicism, but had to kill for it. And thus how she earned the ire of Anglicans.
"Because they hurt his feelings" lol. Dying
13:47 Small correction: To say that Catherine was taken from Poland is very misleading. While she was born and lived her childhood in Szczecin, which is currently in Poland, at the time (and for the rest of Catherine's life) the city was located in german Kingdom of Prussia outside of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was named Stettin, most of its inhabitants spoke german and both of her parents were german royals.
But besides this small mistake, this is a great video
And better yet, her family’s ancestral principality, Anhalt-Zerbst, was comprised entirely of modern German lands in the centre of Eastern Germany and a small patch of land on the North Sea coast called Jever.
Stanislaus Poniatawski was the former lover who was elected King of Poland. Yes, you read that right:. ELECTED KING. He truly loved Ekaterina, or "Sophie" as he preferred to call her. He fathered her daughter, who died at the age of five. He never married.
@@BaronessErsatz Stanisław later had other lovers, conceiving more illegitimate children from at least 1768 onwards, including children with Elżbieta Szydłowska, whom he might have secretely married, although most historians say he didn't, but regardless, it's likely that Catherine was no longer his absolute true love in later part of his life, especially considering that not all of his political decisions were approved by Catherine (although still, most of them were).
If Anne Boleyn is a witch, I would’ve liked to learn a bit of witchcraft from her.
Honestly, same
Girl, that witchcraft did not work, or maybe she was able to switch her body with someone else?
@@SEGASister because her life turned out so wonderfully?
Hard no from me.
It was the 6 fingers thing. Not uncommon but supposed to signify your a witch.
@@helenamcginty4920 plus the supposed mole or wart on her neck.
The four cocktails a day rumor doesn’t even seem like that much lol, especially considering it was only one of each throughout a long day
If I was 87 and ruling a country, I might be having a couple, too. She earned her drinks fr
The same rumor was hurled as her mother.
@@LJB103the Queen Mother was rather fond of drink (not a lush or anything like that). I just read the authorised biography of her.
In Nacy Goldstones book “in the shadow of the Emperess” she says even if Marie Antoinette cut her staff down to a single person, only had bread and water and stopped spending, it wouldn’t of made a single dent in the financial trouble
I remember King Charles VI of France who claimed that he was made of glass. No pesky courtiers were involved in the making of this rumour.
He was mentally ill......
Yeah but he was very mentally ill
Yeah they said he even had iron rods sewed into his pants.
King Otto of Bavaria (brother of King Ludwig II) thought he was a monkey.
@@LJB103
Ludwig ii was "out there" too!
Anyone who lives beyond 70 & has been married to the same spouse for 50 of that can drink or eat anything they want to! Non of anyone's business!!😊
Though Henry VIII and Elizabeth I had more kills under their belt, Mary I had a much shorter reign. I think this also adds to the nickname, having killed so many in a short time.
Mary killed more people (for religious reasons) than Elizabeth did. In 5 years she killed 288 and in 44 years Elizabeth killed 190. Killing people for trying to overthrow you doesn’t really count as that’s just politics. In terms of religious persecution, Mary was far worse than Elizabeth.
Lol, if I was very rich and had someone driving me around wherever I needed to go, and had to get through boring ceremonies all the time, I'd be drinking more than four a day. If she did, I wouldn't judge haha
Exactly no judgement here
These rumors are certainly outrageous to say the least. 😅 Some were genuinely interesting like the Prince Albert Piercing and the late Queen Elizabeth's drinks of choice, but the majority of them are just more examples of the fact that we live in a very patriarchal society and misogynistic people just can't stand women who succeed in life, which is such a shame..........😒
If Elizabeth was born male, then Henry VIII would have been delighted, Anne Bolyen wouldn't have been executed, Bloody Mary never would have happened and Edward would never have been born.
Elizabeth II lived to be 96; the Queen Mum lived to be 101. I think there might be something to those 4 alcoholic drinks a day--binge drinker or not.
Mary I WAS cruel and did deserve her nickname, but compared to her father and half-sister, her reign was quite short, so 280 deaths was quite a lot.
The Elizabeth I rumors of testicular feminization were also leveled at Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. People seem to forget that Catherine II was born Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst: she was German, not Russian. Napoleon was 5' 6." A friend being fitted for a bespoke suit of tie and tails a few years ago was asked the same question: Right or left, which just means more fabric on the side of choice to make things more comfortable and less obvious.
Small correction, Mary one was 42 when she died, not 52.
As for Mary I being bloodthirsty, do the math. Elizabeth I reigned for nearly 45 years, with 650 executions averaging out to a little over 14 a year. Mary I reigned for 5 years, with 280 executions (56 per year)….. but keep in mind Mary I had two false pregnancies causing her to go into confinement for nearly a year each meaning only 3 active years on the throne, making her death toll per year nearly 100 people a year (93). Of course Henry does blow this out of the water with an average of 1,500 a year. I hate to think how many people Mary I would have burned alive if she had reigned for the 45 years her sister did.
You can't tell me Prince Albert wasn't kinky. I don't think he ever did anything unkind to his male body parts simply because of the importance of them... but to have 9 children... remain faithful in a time when it was socially acceptable if not expected for male royals to philander... he and his wife were most definitely both kinky... at least by their contemporary standards. You read Victoria's writings and YOU KNOW Albert believed in the female orgasm... something some modern men still don't believe in. And I would imagine their kinkiness is what drove Victoria to push so hard for morality and chasteness and prudishness. You see it all the time, with many different things. I could rattle off SO many scenarios that are similar... and unfortunately, it's highly rooted in shame. But also, all the randy men and women in Victoria's family... girl was set up to enjoy bedroom time but also, look at who her mother was... you know homegirl had deep-seeded shame about her own sexuality even if she deeply enjoyed it which is why she forced such puritanical beliefs on the people.
I don't think that Albert was kinky in any way. He was stricly raised and he married
at a young age.
It is rumored that both of Prince Albert's parents had syphilis; although it was
not listed as a reson for their deaths. Both were promiscuous and they quarreled
frequently. (The court of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld/Gotha was noted for scandal).
*The Princes Albert and Ernest (Jr.) and Albert did not have happy childhoods.*
Prince Albert's father[1] also had at least three illegitimate children (that is 3
illegitimate children were recognized by him as his children). His father divorced
his mother.[2] Both of Albert's parents then remarried. The mother's remarried
secretly (which cost her visitation rights to Prince Albert and his brother Ernest;
the father already had custody of both boys) His father's second wife was his
father's niece/Albert's cousin; whom Ernest Sr. didn't treat any better than he
did his first wife (Wife #2 ended up living separately from him)
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1.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_I,_Duke_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
"Ernest I (German: Ernst Anton Karl Ludwig; 2 January 1784 - 29 January 1844) was the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) and, from 1826, the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as Ernest I). He was the father of Albert, Prince Consort, who was the husband of Queen Victoria. Ernest fought against Napoleon Bonaparte, and through construction projects and the establishment of a court theatre, he left a strong imprint on his residence town, Coburg."
2.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Louise_of_Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg_(1800%E2%80%931831)
"Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 - 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. She was the paternal grandmother of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom."
@@here_we_go_again2571 I don’t mean kinky like, promiscuous. I mean kinky like, enjoyed pleasing his wife in all ways she enjoyed. I’m proud of them for having a healthy sex life. It’s just a shame they were clearly, ashamed by it.
@@Chaotic_Pixie
Different times, different
social values.....
Hmm ... I don't think that
V & A were "ashamed"
Back then people just
didn't discuss their
personal lives in public.
Back then ....
Married Protestants were
encouraged to have a
healthy sex life (i.e.
"Doing the deed" frequently)
"Be fruitful and multiply"
etc..
In the West, it was the Roman
Catholic church that venerated
perpetual virginity and also
abstinance between a married
couple.
Lay people (those with a non-religious
profession) were more or less
considered "less than" the
clergy and the members of
religious orders (nuns, monks)
In all classes and religions at
the time; the horrors of
pregnancy/birth or disease
were not discussed in public
or while in private in front of
minors.
In particular, young women
were encouraged to be
charming but very naive.
"Let her husband teach
her and give her the
opinions that she should
hold ... etc." {Eyeroll} I am
glad I didn't live back then!
Even if they weren’t passionate or “kinky” in those days a woman would have shame for anything, even being kissed, even an un welcomed kiss! In environments where modesty, purity and morality are so focused and women are taught that’s they’re worth they will experience shame even if they do things “the right way”..
I love your videos! I'd love to see one about Lucrezia Borgia, the pseudo-royal who also was surrounded by rumours, I think you'd really do her justice.
❤
Shes a difficult study. Id love to know more about her! So many things have been written as true...dont know what to believe!
We played 'bloody Mary' in the school toilets' mirror of my church of England primary school. I remember being so scared Mary's spirit would get me 😂
Love your videos, I wish they had taught this at school!
Elizabeth 1st was not a man. She had ladies in waiting the whole point of them was that they were the queens body servants. Don't you think that during dressing and undressing her they might have noticed had the queen been a man most of them were married or engaged and they didn't say a word to the man in their lives even in their cups?
The problem is that people. Even now don't believe a woman can be a successful ruler.
Best decision Elizabeth I ever made was to remain single. She knew if she married then her husband would be king. What good is being queen if your husband can just take it all from you?!! Also, she knew that whoever she married would piss some faction off - there was no win-win for her. Being a smart cookie, she probably decided it wasn't worth the hassle.
She also learned by seeing her fathers marriages that their was no safety for a wife in marriage. Also the marriage between Catherine Parr and Seymour showed her that lesson as well.
I love when rumors are debunked so people who pay attention stop spreading them
The "don't wash" quote isn't from Napoléon at all, but from Henri IV (4th), King of France, and it wasn't 3 days, but 3 weeks; he said it to one of his mistresses. Henri was the (Protestant) son of Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre (a tiny kingdom in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain); he married Marguerite of Valois, the Catholic daughter of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici. It was immediately after their wedding that the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre took place, which lead to the death of several thousands of Protestants who were invited to the wedding in Paris. After the wedding, Queen Catherine had the city gates closed so that nobody could get out, and all the Protestants in town were killed. The marriage was later annulled, and Henri married Marie de' Medici in 1600.
Speaking of Juana 'the mad', did you know that just all of the current European royal families are descended from her and her parents, the Catholic monarchs? King George III's mother, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was descended in a nearly matrilineal line besides Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III (Juana's son). Queen Victoria was also descended from her from her mother's side. As a lot of the current monarchs are descended from Victoria as well, this would be a given. You'd never think Juana, who is from Spain (Castile and Aragon in her time) has a long, ever-lasting legacy of being considered 'mad' and thousands of descendants, besides the Spanish monarchs
Ann Boleyn was a bit more than a minor noble, her family were very much on the rise way before she was even a lady in waiting
6:31 Mary I died at 42 not 52.
10:58 Joanna of Castile still had her younger siblings Maria of Aragon and Catherine of Aragon so she wasn't the only heir.
Being the sole heir doesn't mean that there isn't anyone under her left to become heir if she died without producing her own legitimate heirs. It simply means she was the only one at that time that had the legal and rightful claim to the throne, her younger sisters did not have this claim as long as she held it. So this wasn't an error on her part.
it should also be noted that disability (or any form of abnormality) was treated VERY different among minor nobles. Court was supposed to be a "show off" area, where people would present the best of the best. courtiers expected to be attractive in every sense of the word. any child with any sort of abnormality wouldn't have been brought to court in the first place. additionally it was believed that a pregnant woman would absorb her surroundings and transpose them on her child, so a woman with imperfections would be kept far away from a queen would get pregnant with an heir (which it was assumed Catherine could do, at least at the beginning of Anne's tenure
Queen Elizabeth Woodville and her mother Jacquetta were also accused of witchcraft
Um, Mary Mary I was queen for only a few years while Elizabeth I was queen for decades. Per anum, Mary was far more "bloody".
I have cousins that were born with six finger. Their father was born with a sixth finger. They just tied it off after birth and it eventually just falls off.
Catherine lived her life openly as she desired. That includes having her kids (after Paul) out of wed lock and different fathers.
My bro had a friend where there were many six fingered babies in the family, and that is what they did.
The 6 fingers is the dominant gene. That’s the weirdest part to me
@@Ulvdronning yep. a genetic activity that are current society still frowns upon and considers odd. Can you imagine 6 fingers on a left handed individual. The absolute stock and horror.
It’s wrong to cut off an extra digit if it’s healthy tissue. My first grade teacher was born with two thumbs and the doctors cut off her good thumb and left the vestigial thumb! 😢Just leave it alone!
Medical incompetence surely misfortune. Because of current HIPPA law no way someone to even disguise that alleged harm. Everyone has make their own informed discussions. Remove a thumb or remove a piece skin on side of hand??
The French foot is also 13 inches as opposed to the English 12, meaning Napoleon was closer to 5'7" on the shorter side for a male by modern standards but by the standards of early 19th century France it was taller than average, also recall that Napoleon surrounded himself with his Imperial guard who were all over six foot and affectionately referred to their Emperor as "Le Petite Corporal" which the English press used to ridicule him.
I don’t think Elizabeth II was an alcoholic, but her sister Princess Margaret most likely was and their mother , The Queen Mother, certainly liked her liquor
I don't think Sophia was naive before becoming Catherine the Great. She was scouted as a partner for Peter by order of Elizabeth the Great since she knew her grandson was kinda worthless and would need a smart partner to keep the country from ruin. Side note, Marie's spending wasn't as lavish as rumored, with the Affair of the Diamond Necklace being a good example of the rumor clashing with reality as a con artist used her name to commission a lavish necklace that the real Marie refused to buy.
Others have already covered the other inaccuracies but overall a good video. History is constantly being updated as people sort through the rumors and inaccuracies.
5:45 well, yeah, but let’s be fair, shall we? Elizabeth reigned for 45 long (and glorious) years, against Mary’s modest 5. When you calculate the proportion, Mary was indeed bloodier than Elizabeth.
The Elizabeth being a man thing still irks me for some reason. Probably because it doesn’t make any sense the second you think about it.
The death rates between the siblings and their father would be best to shown an average over the amount of years they ruled. Per year Mary executed 56 people where as Elizabeth was approximately 14 per year of reign.
True but Henry is far worse.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 yes no disputing that
I know you're not a true crime podcast but you may be interested to know that recent work has shown that most of Jack the Ripper's victims were not sex workers, merely women "sleeping rough.". Hallie Rubenhold's book The Five delves into the victims' lives very deeply.
Wasn't part of the problem with Mary's body count (at least compared to Elizabeth) the relatively short period of time in which she had those people killed? Elizabeth had a much lower body count on a per year basis.
She's comparing mostly to their father, not Elizabeth
Per year basis Henry still killed more than Mary and far harsher than her. Mary for example didn't want Jane Grey to die until rebellion broke out fearing for her right to rule, her councilman convinced her to sign death warrant. It's the same reason why Elizabeth supposedly signed Queen Mary of Scots death warrant due to growing number of Catholics rebelling against Queen Elizabeth.
One of my personal favourites is that the half sister of George I who travelled with him to England was labeled as one of his mistresses. I don't even know how that myth went down in history the way it did.
6:17 hmm, I don’t know if I would call the circumstances “similar”. Jane was a pawn in Northumbland’s hands. She did not want the crown, she said it belonged to Mary Tudor. On the other hand, May, Queen of Scots, did attempt to dethrone Elizabeth multiple times, even after her cousin took her in exile in England.
Although both Queens did relict to execute their cousins, their reasons were very different, because the situation was very different.
~~Timestamps~~
Intro 0:00
Anne Boleyn was a witch??? 1:03
Mary I was bloody? 4:20
Elizabeth I was a man? 7:27
Queen Juana was loca? 10:44
Catherine the great loved horses, for real. 13:37
"Let them eat cake" -Marie Antoinette? 16:12
Napoleon told Joesphine "Dont wash"? 18:34
Prince Albert had a prince Albert piercing? 20:52
Prince Albert Victor was Jack the Ripper? 23:53
Elizabeth II had four cocktails a day??? 26:32
I spent a while on this, hope this helped!
Napoleon was 5'2" in //French// measurements, translating to 5'7" in imperial units, but yes that was indeed the average at the time. Ironically admiral Nelson was 5'2".
Albert & Victoria: There's nothing like first cousin love ❤️
Victoria had a very sheltered upbringing with little contact outside her family so no wonder she fell in love with her 1st cousin.
@@pedanticradiator1491 She wasn't totally isolated. Among others she at least flirted with before she set her cap on Albert were the visiting Tsarevitch who became Alexander III of Russia (but he said she was too short and fat for his liking even though he thought she had a beautiful voice) as well as her first Prime Minister William Lamb, AKA Lord Melbourne. Ironically, Vic had just gone through the wringer with the Lady Flora Hastings tragedy and, essentially, only agreed to allow Albert and his older brother to visit to get her meddling mother (their aunt) off her case. Of course, she didn't expect to find herself instantly smitten with him but that's what happened and the rest is history.
@Ward Arcade before she was Queen her mother very much controlled her life
WHAT
*ALABAMA 💯*
20:07
Little thing: he was 5'2 in _French units,_ which is 5'7 in the imperial units of today, lest I am mistaken. 5'2 (imperial) was absolutely short at the time.
When Elisabeth lived, it would have been FAR easier to be a prince and king then a princess and queen. So the point that she was a he, is a no brainer. Why didn’t people think about how she would feel when her dad was who he was and killed people when they hurt his feelings? Misogyny. Ugh.
Enjoyed this video. I found myself chortling at some of the more ridiculous rumors particularly Napoleon's "little corporal."
I just discovered this channel n i love it.. ur voice is so clear n perfect for history telling..😅😅💞💞
Her voice is terrible for presenting. Sorry to say but she sounds so childish and worst of all is that throat scrunching at the end of every sentence. Needs elocution coaching
My mother has an extra toe and yet I haven't received my Hogwarts letter. I slowly start to think witch trials were just a way to undermine women and that witches don't actually exist 👀 xD
People who practice witchcraft exist; it's just that accusations were terribly arbitrary and easily thrown around.
@@aurea. There’s people who play with tarot cards and crystals and astrology, and then there’s people who cut off albino people’s body parts because it will supposedly cure them of AIDS, or who sacrifice infants to win an election. I will leave it to you which one deserves to be called witchcraft.
@@aurea.yep you took the words out of my mouth
Elizabeth II's martinis were probably for when 007 dropped by...😁
The Bloody Mary photos were jumpscares I almost had a mini heartattack.
Can you maybe do a video of royals who perfromed witchcraft in history?? I love your videos!
Why would royals engage in that?
@@ilahildasissac1943 cause they can. For example, Elizabeth Bathory
Havent you heard of Macbeth?
Thanks for all the rumors!
I only think Bloody Mary was considered ruthless because she did all that in a 5 year reign, whereas Elizabeth was Queen for 45 years.
Mary I being Bloody Mary was what I was taught at school.
Had birth control pills been available to Queen Victoria she would have taken them by the handful so she could have “fun” with her beloved Albert as much as possible!!! 😂😂😂 ❤M
Idk about that since due to religious reasons (artificial contraception is considered immoral in most christian churches) she was the head of the church of england too, idk of the church of england is that strict compared to the roman catholic church and other churches when it comes to this tho)
@@darchelmacaroyo184 I'm not sure about that because when chloriform became available, having already gone through seven childbirths, she insisted on trying it for the eighth and liked the effect so much she was happy to have it for her ninth and last. Oh, and before she had tried it, clergy was admonishing women against using it say that they were supposed to suffer pain in childbirth but when Vic (the Supreme Governor of the Church of England) used it and gave her endorsement, they somewhat backed off.
@@wardarcade7452 ah i see but, artificial contraception is more condemned by most churches even till today.
@@darchelmacaroyo184 its typically Catholics and evangelical types who are weird about birth control. They’re are many, many forms of birth control and many Protestant women take them. Church doesn’t need to know about your healthcare. And doctors in those days were desperate to try and figure out ways to make pregnancy safer and spaced out as more kids and the closer together brings more risks especially in those days. Many women would suffer, be injured and disfigured, lifelong poor health and death. Around every 100th birth ended in death in the Victorian era. Miscarriage rates were also high, and deadly. And contraception has been around for a while. Since forever women have always tried to or have found ways to prevent pregnancy. Knowing what we know about Victoria’s views on pregnancy, birth and postpartum (which many women shared)- it’s not far fetched to say she might have gotten an iud or at least used conforms if available.
I don't see how any of the women could even stomach being in the bed with Henry VIII after hearing he had huge sores on his leg that became severely infected eventually turning to gangrene and had a God awful smell. It was this infection in his leg that killed him.
Probably type II diabetes
I heard he had gout.@@juniper617
What I find kind of interesting is that in Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone you can see in the background a picture of Anne Boleyn because she was supposedly a witch who attended the school
As a potter head I never knew this and I'll look out for it next time I watch the film, i also love the tutors so this was a really nice fact 😮
Any childless woman in history could have had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (which is the actual medical term for that rumor applied to Elizabeth I); it’s not terribly uncommon, and it’s not like there was a way to test for it back then. Some people think Walis Simpson might have had it.
In love with your content, love the voice even more☺️
Re: Elizabeth l, strong women were/are always vilified in some way, usually by men who are threatened by their strength.
Like Lady Biden who was asked to not say she has a doctorate. 😮I guess you can only be a doctor if you have a penis?!😠
9:30- Yet, in 1566 when Mary, Queen of Scots bore her son (the future James VI of Scotland- and I of England), Elizabeth I evidently reacted to the news by crying out 'Alack, the Queen of Scots is lighter a bonny son but I am of barren stock!'
This, despite not being quite 33-years-old at the time. Interestingly, she would negotiate the best deals for England by toying with the Continental kings that she might wed them if they did England X favors- and did this well into her 50s with her officials swearing up and down that her body had been miraculously preserved as a 20-something woman. Of course, she created her own personality cult to encourage her subjects of all ranks to be loyal to her above everyone else including their immediate overlords- and it was no accident that she called herself the Virgin Queen within living memory of her once Catholic nation having previously openly venerated the Virgin Mary!
4:59 IN OXFORD! I’ve been there, the cross they used to mark the spot is still there!!!
I wish Catherine the Great would stop *horsing* around
She wasn’t a very good *neigh*bour to her fellow monarchs
But she did make her country one of the *mane* players in Europe
I can't believe you saddled us with those puns. So un-hoof of you
LOL!
That was hilarious!
Nice puns😂..
@@fabulouschild2005 That was a stinky but good pun.😂
Juana and Elizabeth Bathory were both victimized by the greed of male family members, I believe. Love the video, Lindsay! Btw: Josephine wasn't illiterate, after all? Just asking. Thank you...once more!🌹❤️
Pretty sure we have evidence of Elizabeth Bathory unaliving people. The myths that she bathed in their blood and whatnot are simply not true and definitely propaganda, but to think that a woman isn't capable of being a serial killer is to woefully underestimate women. The most likely explanation is she was a sadist... not outright looking to unalive, but more curious about what would happen. Think, Marque de Sade. Just like with Juana and Mary, events are exaggerated, but events still occurred to create the fodder for the rumors. It's no different for stereotypes which are exaggerations of kernels of truth. Elizabeth Bathory was most likely a bisexual sadist, possibly sexual sadist with mental instability. Juana was DEFINITELY mentally unstable. What led to that instability... that's important to note too. Childhood mistreatment, gaslighting by her family, but also all that inbreeding. Her descendants are known to have struggled with mental health their entire lives too. Things like bipolar, schizophrenia, propensity for anxiety and paranoia... all genetic.
I just watched a PBS documentary on Napoleon and it mentioned that Josephine's letters were full of mistakes. I haven't read them myself though.
Nope. Bathory was definitely a psycho
@@janemwangi2424 so then definitely victimized by kinda shitty crappy greedy males hallelujah
@@janemwangi2424 CHEERS 🎉 😊
Eu amo que o povo foi escrever sobre a Anne DURANTE o reinado da Elizabeth. É. Fala sim da mãe da Rainha desse jeito, nada de ruim vai te acontecer.
I love the fact that people were writing this kind of stuff about Anne DURING Elizabeth’s reign. Honestly, who thought that was a good ideia?? Yes, go ahead, talk sh*T about the Queen’s mother. Nothing bad could come of it.
Just on the Mary death count and comparison to Elizabeth and Henry. I don't think that is completely fair when put in the perspective of how long Elizabeth and Henry reigned. Should have done executions per year.
Exactly! At least compared to Elizabeth, Mary executed several times more people per year.
Though I actually think Henry managed to outpace Mary by a pretty wide margin when it comes to that field
@@matanlurie2222 Elizabeth had many more people executed during her reign than people think. She was her fathers daughter and almost as ruthless.
Henry by far had the biggest death count with some historians estimating over 70k i believe (obviously those of us not of noble blood wouldn't be so accurately recorded)
I'm a big advocate of fighting the prejudice against Mary (and Anne Boleyn). I do love Elizabeth, but interestingly a lot of her famous attributes were built on ideas pioneered by Mary.
Her famous speech about being married to the country was actually plagurised from Mary.
Of them all though, Edward was by far the most radicalised and rigid with retribution from rebellions (his regency obvs sharing most of the blame here) Who knows which way he could have gone with age.
@@juanitarichards1074 she definitely wasn't, she was infamously indicisive .... It was more a case of years into her reign the Pope put a hit out on her so William Cecil and Francis Walsingham stepped up the security and enforcement of laws to protect her / set a precedent.
They arguably dialled up the heat...but they didn't have the hindsight we have and in a lot of ways, were absolutely integral to developing secret service etc.
@@juanitarichards1074 I have no doubt that Elizabeth was just as ruthless as Henry and killed more people than Mary did. I’m just saying that I’m not sure about her Deaths/year rate compared to her sister, which I believe is a more accurate comparison to make considering she reigned nine times as long
This is a great video and great knowledge to know. I would love to know more about people like this. I’m trying to get more points
I love this, thank you❤
5:45 - The Mary I execution count was a span of five years and this video seems to paint her as being the lesser of the evils. Elizabeth ruled for decades, the comparison is apples to oranges. Mary averaged ~56 executions/year and Elizabeth averaged ~15/year. Leaving Henry out of that equation because I think his reputation is worse or on par with Mary, in that regard.
Exactly what I was thinking. The reputation has less to do with the raw numbers and more to do with the time frame in which she got those numbers. 280/650 = 0.43 or 43%. The fact that she managed to achieve 43% of Elizabeth's toll in a ninth of the time makes it pretty clear who was the more murderous queen.
@@8teezy The Pope also threatened ex-communication for anyone who obeyed Elizabeth. No one foreign actor with that much power was creating so many additional hostile forces during Mary's reign. Mary made the choice to burn alive at least 250 Protestants during the Cranmer incident alone, with warning from advisers that it would cause religious extremism. Elizabeth wasn't flawless, but she generally avoided inhumane executions (relative to the time). One could argue that a lot of Elizabeth's executions were responsive to actions by extremists that were generated by Mary.
Henry reputation isn't bad compared to what Mary gets. People believe she evil but forgets leaders like her were just as bad she was or worse like her father due to standards of their time period. Henry gets praised and barely insulted by historians themselves compared to Mary who seen as Evil witch or some sort.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 I think a decent # of ppl know how Henry treated his many wives and remember him (rightfully) as a diagnostically narcissistic, syphilitic, trigger-happy brute. That is its own topic with its own videos. Regardless of Henry, Mary made many unnecessary and violent choices during a very short reign and this video (huge fan of the channel!!) seems to paint Mary as having some moral high ground over Elizabeth.
Loved it!
I'd love for you to make a commentary video on the Musical Six and what it does and doesn't get right about Henry the 8ths wives
Cute stories! Thanks!
If had been cursed with a job as boring and regimented as that of QE2, I would've been drinking every day too.
You missed the opportunity to say, “why do we say ‘bloody Mary’ when we should be saying ‘bloody Harry’”
Napoleon was actually 5'7, according to standard imperial measurements. Prior to metric standardization, the imperial foot (the one used by English and Anglo-Colonial nations), was shorter than the Carolingian foot used in France. The Carolngian foot is measured according to the length of Charlemagne's foot. So, while by the Parisian system Napoleon measured 5'2, but the measuremens we use today, he stood at 5'7. As an enemy of the British, they were only too happy to spread the rumor that he was very short, allowing people to assume they meant the imperial foot.
At 18:25 regarding the Sofia Coppola film - I always thought this scene was imaginary, as she's wearing black lipstick at the time so it felt a bit more evil and fantasy
Mary I executed an average of 56 people yearly. Elizabeth executed an average of 14 people yearly. Mary was indeed much bloodier than her sister, but anyway much less than their father, who executed a yearly average of 1500.
There was also a scroll in 7th Century China in the Book of Jin were Empire Hau was told the peasants have no rice for portage and he responded ‘then why don’t they use meat’
Anne Boleyn in Harry Potter? Wow
Yep. She's right there by a staircase in the first Harry Potter movie.
If you view it as a percentage of the population, Henry VIII's executions make him the Tudor equivalent of Hitler, Salin or Mao. And yet our image of him is that he was 'colorful'.
21:36 This is a common question when tailoring for men because the appendage needs to be taken into account when making pants/trousers. Another way of asking is, "Do you put your left leg in first or your right?"
Brilliant video! The things they came up with 😂😂😂 nutters, the entire lot!
I have often thought Anne Bolyne was poisoned by her enemies there are plants that can cause miscarriage that could have been put in her food.
I have wondered the same about Queen Catherine of Aragon as well as
about Queen Anne of Great Britain (1665 - 1714) Both had many
miscarriages and deaths of a newly/recently born infant
Anne didn’t have any more miscarriages than was common for the time, same for Catherine. And Anne Stuart’s case was likely due to Rh factor or a similar blood condition.