S1.58 Victoria: The Review (Part 5/5)

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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2012

⏱️ 79 minutes

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After four episodes, we finally review Queen Victoria in full. From the spirited young girl who resisted Conroy's Kensington System to the dumpy old lady celebrating her Diamond Jubilee, Victoria had her fair show of up's and downs. Some would criticise her for an often partisan and stubborn approach to politics, while her never-ending mourning for Prince Albert got so tiresome that republicanism even started to raise its head. However, Victoria's resume can also boast the British Empire, major advancements in electoral and social reform and a record-breaking stint on the throne. So when it's all put together, will Queen Victoria be worthy of the Rex Factor? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:10.0	This week, Victoria, the review.
0:14.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood.
0:29.0	Oh, hello, here we are. The fifth and final episode of Queen Victoria, I realized when I was looking back to the first one at the start we were talking about four episodes.
0:38.0	So it's grown exponentially.
0:40.0	But this is the last episode of Queen Victoria.
0:43.2	We are actually going to review her now, factor by factor.
0:46.2	If you want more detail on her life or on her politicians, her MPs, the events of the
0:51.6	rain, we've got four episodes in the back catalog.
0:55.2	So Queen Victoria, she's born in 1819, a daughter of Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess
1:01.1	Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Strathlan, and she becomes Queen in 18
1:05.0	37 when she's 18 years old.
1:08.0	Young person since Edward VI, son of Henry VIII. And she is the great-great-grandmother of Elizabeth
1:16.0	the second. That is properly memorable. As we say born 1819 the Duke of
1:21.9	Kent was the fourth son of George the 3rd.
1:24.8	He died in 1820, so the family and the family was unpopular with the current monarch,
1:29.9	George the 4th.
1:31.9	So her mother became enthralled with the head of her household, John Conroy, and he was keeping
1:37.8	her and trying to keep Victoria under thumb using what was called the Kensington system because she was brought up at Kensington
1:43.6	to try and keep Victoria away from the court away from everybody else that they could
1:48.0	control her so that when she became Queen they'd be in effect controlling things.
1:52.3	Yeah. And Victoria is strong enough to refuse control. they'd be in effect controlling things.
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