Royalty in History

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I'm a huge fan of royal history, more so than current royals, so is it okay to start a topic on this? My favorites are the Romanovs, the Karadjordevics and the Roumanian royals.

[jennipoo]

Ohhhhh me too. I was obsessed, obsessed I tell you with the Romanov's in high school. This was when the crazy cat lady in Virginia was claiming to be the long-lost Romanov princess.

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So am I(obsessed!)

I don't really have any favorites, but I do like the 3 French royal dynasties (of course, it(s my country )
And all the European families, including the Romanovs...

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I'm currently reading a biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria by Greg King (author of The Last Empress and The Man Who Killed Rasputin). It's fascinating-I LOVE reading about mad mad royals!

My favorite Romanov is Olga Nicholaievna, Nicholas II's oldest daughter.

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I'm a huge, huge fan of Tudor history. Henry VII to Elizabeth I... even Jane Grey! Anyone else as obsessed as me?

[Auroranorth]

I like the Tudors, but Victoria and her era really send me. I still know more 19th century genealogy than any who isn't related to them should. My favorite historical royal is Edward VII, Victoria's son. He and Charles have one thing in common- being the prince-in-waiting. There is an apocryphal story about Edward (Bertie) in church saying, "I don't mind praying to the eternal Father, but I do object to being the only man afflicted with an eternal mother." Victoria was a very poor mother, and she really made mistakes with Bertie. (In fairness, Prince Albert was just as bad with him.)

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Victoria was a very poor mother, and she really made mistakes with Bertie. (In fairness, Prince Albert was just as bad with him.)

Yes, I've read in several biographies of Queen Victoria that Prince Albert had a preferency for his eldest daughter,Princess Royal Victoria (Vicky) ? And that Victoria didn't really liked her children, because she was obsessed with her husband only...

[topher]

From a history lesson in HS on Henry VIII's wives that is still stuck in my mind twenty years later:

divorced,killed,died
divorced,killed,survived

[azaleaqueen]

Actually, the way I heard it was divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

The thing I find amazing about victoria and all those kids is that she actually, conceived, gave birth to, and survived all those kids' births. and they all lived to adulthood. That was pretty amazing before the days of modern medicine, and the fact that royalty had been so inbred by the time she came along that they were kind of weaklings. I watched an A&E miniseries about her and Albert a few years ago. He didn't love her when they married, but was penniless. He sure made it into the sack with her enough times, though. They made it appear that the two of them had a real family going when the kids were growing up--kind of unusual for the royals, but she sort of lost it when Albert died. The kids were, for the most part, pretty young at that time.

Has anyone else heard the story about Bertie being suspected of being Jack the Ripper?

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I ahev heard about Jack the Ripper being connected with the Royal Family... but I don't think it was Bertie (future King Edward VII) but his eldest son Albert Victor "Eddy", Duke of Clarence. He died in 1892(?), leaving his young brother George(future George V) as the new heir.

But I absolutely don 't know if the Ripper 'rumor was true.