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There wasn't much going on the brain deparment it seems

posted 10 years ago by LetThemEatCake01
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I know this movie is not accurate at all but they did capture what I've suspected for a long time, Victoria's lack of intelligence, her inclination to sycophancy and crawling and adulation, both on the receiving end and also to other people, her obsession with Melbourne, Albert, and that other lowlife brown, quite disgusting and transparent if you ask me, her almost total collapse after her husband's death, etc. Sounds harsh but I guess I'm disappointed, isn't she suppossed to be the greatest british monarch? I guess she's more like the great british icon, but quite an empty figurehead for all of her life. Oh and didn't she hate Disraeli but then was enamored of him when he got her the title of Empress of India? that's so ridiculous.

[–] crsh1976-1 10 years ago

She wasn't raised to be a dominant figure, as her mother (under the influence of Conroy) needed her to be easily manipulated and ordered around - hence the whole Kensington System, which was designed to keep her dependent on others and unable to exert much initiative.

Keep in mind also she was raised cut off from normal life, even for a princess - Victoria was fed light novels and drawing lessons as part of her education - for her to be a bit of an airhead at the beginning would have been somewhat normal, everybody expected her to be an idiot actually - she came to realize how important her role was later on.

[–] LetThemEatCake01 10 years ago

But Victoria was a dominant figure. Very much so, she was intransigent, cantankerous, close minded, etc, I'm just saying that she wasn't very smart because at any given time you had a manservant like Brown with the entire british empire in his hands, or a minor prince from a foreign country calling the shots, or bad prime ministers ruling the world because they had the right amount of adulation for her, which was never enough.