Queen Victoria's Childhood & Siblings
History Tea Time
Lindsay Holiday
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:58.8 | Hello and welcome to history tea time. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history. |
| 1:09.7 | Queen Victoria's childhood and siblings. |
| 1:18.5 | Recently, I visited Kensington Palace in London, where Queen Victoria was born and raised. |
| 1:26.1 | Let's explore the rooms where she spent her troubled youth, examine the harsh Kensington system under which she was reared, discover a few of her childhood joys, |
| 1:30.2 | and learn what transformed her into a queen. We'll also get to know her two half-siblings, |
| 1:38.2 | Carl and Fyodora, who are so often forgotten by history. We'll find out what sort of relationship they had with their |
| 1:45.3 | royal little sister and what became of them. Victoria's story really begins two years before her |
| 1:53.1 | birth, for she never would have been were it not for the tragic death of another princess. |
| 1:59.1 | Charlotte of Wales was the only child born of the miserable marriage between George Prince of Wales and Caroline of Brunswick. She grew up to be a beautiful, moderate and popular princess, in contrast to her widely loathed father. At 20, she wed Prince Leopold of Sox-Kolberg-Sulfeld, and they were the |
| 2:21.2 | Will and Kate of their day. But the future came crashing down in 1817, when Charlotte died in |
| 2:29.3 | an agonizing childbirth at just 21. Her son was stillborn. And now there were no heirs to the throne |
| 2:37.8 | in the next generation. George III was still technically king, but he had completely succumbed to |
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