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Marking the 200th Anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth a film of Victoria’s life at Buckingham Palace will air tonight at 9pm on ITV BST-
We will never know for sure, I guess. But that is probably as close as we'll ever get to hearing her voice.Observers described Queen Victoria's voice as 'silvery' and 'bell-like', even in old age. Doesn't sound like that on these, lol. I'm not sure that is QV's voice really.
This is the recording I found, of course not very good since very old and from the early days of recording...
Thank you.If you open the first video and click on "Show More" you read this [boldfacing mine]:
"I managed to digitally remaster the 1888 graphophone recording of Queen Victoria to the best of my ability. Here is what I believe Her Majesty is saying."
So it's unclear to me how much is authentic and how much was "added."
Please see the article "In Search of Queen Victoria's Voice":
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-search-of-queen-victorias-voice-98809025/
It links to this recording:
Prince Arthur's wife Louise and Marie's mother Elizabeth were first cousins. Elizabeth was born a Princess of Anhalt and so was Louise's mother.I just finished reading "Letters to Vicky" and I have one last family relation question. I tried to figure it out, but it just escapes me. In the latter part of 1897 Queen Victoria and Vicky are discussing the pregnancy (by a married footman) of Marie, daughter of the heir to the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and his wife, Elizabeth of Anhalt. The Queen tells Vicky that Louischen (Prince Arthur's wife, Princess Louise of Prussia) "should not be told, but she knows all and she said her mother wrote to say they could not hold up their heads." How is Marie related/connected to Prince Arthur's wife? I remember reading about this incident in a book on Queen Mary, but it has been awhile. Thanks.
P.S. I highly recommend this book. It is so interesting reading the conversations between Victoria and VIcky and they discussed almost everything (politics, art, family members, royalty, friends, child rearing, children and babies, servants, some gossip etc.). I also learned new things about Queen Victoria that were not covered in the two books I have read on her.
Prince Arthur's wife Louise and Marie's mother Elizabeth were first cousins. Elizabeth was born a Princess of Anhalt and so was Louise's mother.
Louise's mother Marie Anne of Anhalt and Elizabeth's father Duke Frederick of Anhalt were siblings.Thanks. So Louise's mother and Elizabeth were sisters?
Louise's mother Marie Anne of Anhalt and Elizabeth's father Duke Frederick of Anhalt were siblings.
duchessrachel, King Louis Philippe I's daughter Princess Louise married King Leopold I of the Belgians. Their children were cousins to the children of Queen Victoria.
Can I ask you to break up the above post?
It is very hard to read in such a large block.
Another thing that confused me was his reference to Louis Philippe's children as cousins of Queen Victoria's children. When Louis Philippe fled France for England and stayed with Queen Victoria and her family, Van Der Kiste says that "Aiice and Affie were ... thrilled to be playing with their young cousins and adapting at once to their temporary dormitories in the servants' quarters." This sounds like Queen Victoria's and King Louis Philippe's children were related. I don't ever remember reading that anywhere else. Is it true?
This has been answered by CyrilVladisla.
In addition to the relationship provided by CyrilVladilsa there were four others:
1. Louis Philippe's oldest son and heir, Ferdinand Duke of Orleans, married Helene of Meckleburg-Schwerin who was a first cousin of Prince Albert's mother Louise of Saxe-Gotha (Louise's mother was Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin). Victoria and Albert often referred to Helene as their "cousin."
2. Louis Philippe's second son, Louis Duke of Nemours, married Victoria of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha who was Albert and Victoria's first cousin. She was the daughter of Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha who was the brother of Victoria Duchess of Kent (Queen Victoria's mother) and Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Prince Albert's father).
3. Louis Philippe's second daughter Marie married Duke Alexander of Wurttemberg, another first cousin of Victoria and Albert. His mother Antoinette was another sibling of the Duchess of Kent and Duke Ernest. To confuse matters even more, Duke Alexander's sister Marie married her uncle Duke Ernest (as his second wife), making her Prince Albert's stepmother as well as his cousin.
4. Louis Philippe's third daughter Clementine married Duke Augustus of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, son of Ferdinand and brother of Victoria wife of Louis Duke of Nemours (see #2 above) and yet another first cousin of Victoria & Albert.
PHP:
I edited it by blocking off in paragraphs. Let me know if this helps.
duchessrachel, King Leopold I and Queen Louise's children would be first cousins to Queen Victoria. These children would be first cousins once removed to the children of Victoria.Thank you. I read the passage too literally. There are so many kinships that I still struggle to get it straight in my head. Would they be 1st cousins,once removed?
The Royal Mail have released 6 new stamps to mark the bicentenaries of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/p...mark-royal-bicentenaries-Victoria-Albert.html