I do, and I talk about this in the video essay! I tried to confine myself to "modernity" here because Victoria's attitudes towards motherhood and being a queen regnant were so different to what we see in the 20th century. She didn't really want to be progressive; she would have preferred to let a man reign if at all possible!
Hi Amanda! Great article. Question: Do you not consider Queen Victoria a working royal? Wouldn't she have been the first working mother monarch?
I do, and I talk about this in the video essay! I tried to confine myself to "modernity" here because Victoria's attitudes towards motherhood and being a queen regnant were so different to what we see in the 20th century. She didn't really want to be progressive; she would have preferred to let a man reign if at all possible!
And yay for long form YouTube content! I deleted TikTok off my phone several months ago and miss your videos.
Ok, I haven’t watched the video essay yet. I’ll get to it. Thank you for the response. 🙂
Happy to be here. Great write up!
So happy you’re on YouTube! And what a lot of work you put into this post; thank you, Amanda!