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Lol...Queen V was always tracking applause meters...she hated to hear about the P of W or any other family member getting wildly warm receptions and was quick to remind them it was only due to being HER CHILD. .

I finished reading "Princesses" today, a book about the daughters of George III (Charlotte's grandfather.) What a sad life most of them lived...he would not permit them to marry. Finally the eldest, known as Royal, was allowed, at age thirty, but she was the only one who married until many years...

I always thought Cheryl Ladd had a similar look to P. Grace.

"To Marry An English Lord" "Edwardians in Love" "The Titled Americans" "The Perfect Summer-England 1911" "Season of Splendor" "Heir Apparent-bio of Edward VIi" All are about British aristocracy in Edwardian times, or late Victorian era.

I have read all of these books lol and more... Queen v only went to open Parliament after Albert died when she needed to obtain dowries or incomes for kids... As far as Maud...she was just not very interesting, IMO. All she ever thought about was getting back to England when she was Queen of...

It is ironic, and sad, that between Vicki and Bertie, always compared by their parents, it was Bertie as Edward VII who fulfilled his task in life with success, and brilliant, determined Vicki who bungled almost everything she put her hand to, after she married. IMO, a great deal of her failures...

I don't know...Prince Albert had written to her about her selfishness before he died and she was only forty -two then. Maybe it just got worse and worse.

Just read what may be the only bio on Prince Leopold, QV's youngest son. How dreadfully she treated her, mainly in ignoring the abuse by the infamous John Brown's brother, who she assigned to be PL's personal valet...the man was a mean-spirited drunk who would hit PL and abuse him in all ways...

I have read that Pv grew quite bitter and unpleasant later on, due to hating her life as outlined by her mother. Everyone knew that her mother would create roadblocks indefinitely to keep at least one girl from marrying and at the time, Maude was developing various crushes, which were...

I too found Edward VIII (David) to be odd-looking and thought both Georges, V and VI, better looking. Maybe they were the extremely rare royals of the era who were photogenic...most of the women certainly were not.

After one of her little boys died, she was only close to the three youngest girls. She had bad relationships with older sons and her oldest daughter, Charlotte. She was too much like her own mother, always criticizing, nothing was good enough, wrote about how ugly some were and how stupid and...

Vicki was determined that all of her sisters marry Germans or Prussians. Her ladies maid came up with Alix of Denmark when Bertie emphatically refused to take any of the ugly German princesses Vicki offered up, including one she admitted had "black teeth, if any". Queen V admitted that Bertie...

From various bios I have read, Eddie was not much different from brother George and was in fact somewhat more liberal and personable. George iv was not exactly brilliant, or in possession of much personality or interests, outside of killing animals (and stamps). He became a decent King because...

I find Queen Victoria the most interesting royal ever...but what a monstrous mother she was, overall. As soon as Albert died, she gave in to her innate selfishness and everything became about her...something Albert had warned her against not long before she did, telling her in a letter she would...