Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled | Documentary

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled - This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences recounted solely through her personal diaries and letters.

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled (2014)
Director: Ian Denyer
Stars: Anna Chancellor, A.N. Wilson, Duchess of Argyll Princess Louise
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014 (United Kingdom)
Filming Location: UK

Synopsis:
0:00 Episode 1: ‘Constraint’
Examining the first half of Queen Victoria’s life, biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of a monarch too often misunderstood as the solid black-clad matron and reveals a woman who was passionately romantic and who spent her years as a child and young Queen fighting the control of domineering men.

Queen Victoria was one of the nineteenth century’s most prolific diarists, sometimes writing up to 2500 words a day. From state affairs to family gossip, she poured out her emotions onto paper. Those close to her were afraid her more alarming opinions might escape in written form, causing havoc. In fact much of her writing was destroyed after her death and her personal journals ‘edited’ by her daughter. But what survives frequently reveals a woman quite different to the one we think we know. Now A.N. Wilson reads her personal journals and unpublished letters and discovers the factors that shaped the Queen’s personality. From the tortured relationship with her mother, to the dominant men she clung to in search of a father figure and the powerful struggle that made her marriage to Prince Albert a battleground, Queen Victoria was always a woman in search of intimate relationships. As a daughter, a wife, a mother and the Queen of a growing Empire, as friends and family came and went, her pen remained her constant companion and friend.

Queen Victoria’s journals and letters are read by Anna Chancellor throughout.

57:52 Episode 2: ‘Liberation’

A.N. Wilson discovers the real story behind the woman who supposedly spent the last half of her life in hiding, mourning the loss of her beloved Prince Albert. Alongside this well-known image of Victoria as the weeping widow, Wilson reveals that the years after Albert’s death were actually a process of liberation from her oppressive marriage and were her most productive and exciting.

By examining her closest relationships in the four decades after Price Albert’s death, Wilson tells the story of the Queen’s gradual freedom from a life spent under the shadow of domineering men. Victoria’s marriage had been a source of constraint as well as love as Prince Albert had used her pregnancies as a way to gain power, and punished her for resenting it. But in her widowhood, Queen Victoria although bereft and deranged, was free to move in the world of politics and make deep friendships without concern.

From the controversial friendship with her highland servant, John Brown, to her most unconventional favouring of her young Indian Servant, Abdul Karim, Wilson uncovers Victoria as a woman who was anything but ‘Victorian’. Far from being prim and proper, she loved life in all its richness – she was blind to class and colour, and contrary to what we think had a great sense of humour.

Queen Victoria’s journals and letters are read by Anna Chancellor throughout.

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