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Thanks for the link, what an interesting read!
I would love to read her diaries too and wish someone would publish them. She certainly wasn't very reverential about various royals! Lady Geraldine spent years at Court and knew many members of the RF intimately, including the Tecks.
I suspect that's why her diaries (she never married or had a family) were tucked safely away in the Royal archives at Windsor at her death, where they were unearthed by James Pope Hennessy when he was researching his biography of Queen Mary in the 1950s.
Perhaps if she had had descendants these diaries would have been published Several of the royals that she wrote about lingered on into old age which is probably why her acerbic comments on them didn't come to light before the mid twentieth century.
Apparently Lady Geraldine had a huge crush on George Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's cousin. She loathed his morganatic wife Louisa. Geraldine is quoted a lot here.
https://books.google.com.au/books?i...dy geraldine somerset and her diaries&f=false
Article which briefly examines Queen Victoria’s attitude towards her children.
https://www.biography.com/news/queen-victoria-children-troubled-relationship
Not by the standards of today, no. However during her lifetime almost all monarchs and leaders of royal Houses (or their wives) engaged in matchmaking for young relatives.
She might not have "forced" anyone, but certainly Ernst of Hesse and Victoria Melita of Edinburgh felt enough pressure to marry even though both fancied others. Ducky and Ernie divorced with alacrity after Victoria's death and she later married her first love, her cousin Grand Duke Kyril of Russia, despite royal opposition from both families.It was inevitable surely. Royals had to marry and produce children.. and also to an extent to use hteir marriages for diplomatic reasons. So Victoiria was bound to do it, like other royal mothers. She tried to get her children married to people they got on with.. and did not force anyone into marriage.
Sure, but you can hardly have expected her to act differently at the time. It is tragic though that some of the marriage were so unhappy. And as for Ernst and Victoria Melita, they had to lose their only child too.She might not have "forced" anyone, but certainly Ernst of Hesse and Victoria Melita of Edinburgh felt enough pressure to marry even though both fancied others. Ducky and Ernie divorced with alacrity after Victoria's death and she later married her first love, her cousin Grand Duke Kyril of Russia, despite royal opposition from both families.
A new portrait of Queen Victoria's African goddaughter unveiled to highlight overlooked black figures. English Heritage is exhibiting a portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta by Hannah Uzor in Osborne House.
https://www.tatler.com/article/queen-victoria-goddaughter-sarah-forbes-bonetta-new-portrait
I wonder who the other occupants of the carriage were?
Victoria didn't visit Ireland much at all really when you consider how often she went to Scotland. Having Balmoral made a big difference of course. And politics was also presumably a factor. I have read somewhere that Victoria encouraged Bertie to buy a home in Ireland but of course he never did.
She made a well known visit to Killarney earlier in her reign.
Hard to believe the footage was from Dublin of all places,less than 20 years later Ireland would start the divorce from the Crown.
Indeed it is! Who would have thought at the beginning of that new century?
Anyone who knew how strongly nationalistic the Irish were...
Anyone who knew how strongly nationalistic the Irish were...