tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post5322060472274105842..comments2023-07-08T20:30:18.584+01:00Comments on Grand Duchess Elizabeth And Other Stories: "Queen Victoria's Children"Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-41761754125225017012013-01-16T09:50:04.254+00:002013-01-16T09:50:04.254+00:00Thank you, Alex, and thank you for your informatio...Thank you, Alex, and thank you for your information about the talking heads! I have read your post on your blog, now, and I totall agree with you, too. It seems, from people with whom I have spoken, that many more of us agree about this. I am honoured that you included a link to this post and I have added your blog to the list on this site. Thanks again!Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-83297368416397981842013-01-16T00:41:28.824+00:002013-01-16T00:41:28.824+00:00Thank goodness! I thought I was alone in cyberspac...Thank goodness! I thought I was alone in cyberspace thinking that this documentary series was a travesty! <br />I agree with your view on the documentary, Christina, and with the comments as well. <br />I have actually Googled and Amazoned the names of the talking heads on the three episodes (there were 18 of them!) and about half had never written anything to do with the monarchy. Something's rotten at the production company who produced this beauty, which is very odd because they also produced last year's excellent documentary, King George and Queen Mary, the Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy. <br />I write a blog on the British Monarchy and I linked your post to my entry on this embarassing documentary. I hope you don't mind. It's at http://happyandgloriousblog.blogspot.co.uk/. The only other critical review I could find anywhere was Julia Baird's at the Guardian (oddly enough).<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your views. Perhaps we should start a support group, Ah!Alex-David Baldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14356807712036720202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-63811142133014554612013-01-10T13:39:34.478+00:002013-01-10T13:39:34.478+00:00Thank you, F.R. Partridge for your kind compliment...Thank you, F.R. Partridge for your kind compliment :-). I can see I was not alone in being very disappointed by the programme. I greatly appreciate your comment! Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-24518610814816056902013-01-10T12:49:50.093+00:002013-01-10T12:49:50.093+00:00I also watched this series and was very disappoint...I also watched this series and was very disappointed by the one-sided way they portrayed Queen Victoria. I found myself asking, "What gives these people the right to be so judgemental and why do we see the same old talking heads spouting on every programme?" Just because a university has awarded a qualification or had a publisher accept their book, doesn't mean that someone is an 'expert' - it just means they have fit into the system and say what they are expected to say. Personally, I prefer independent ideas and people who are able to take a more rounded view of historical characters...which, by the way, is why I so enjoy reading your blog.<br /><br />F.R. Partridge (UK)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-89246012257223646702013-01-06T22:28:46.453+00:002013-01-06T22:28:46.453+00:00Thank you, Matterhorn. I know you understand this ...Thank you, Matterhorn. I know you understand this frustration so well :-)Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-53413170191992239232013-01-06T22:06:07.099+00:002013-01-06T22:06:07.099+00:00It's so frustrating to see such tendentious po...It's so frustrating to see such tendentious portrayals- I am all too familiar with them, as you know. :) Thank you for giving us a more balanced account!Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230268418171628594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-46543902927951270102013-01-05T11:05:47.888+00:002013-01-05T11:05:47.888+00:00Thank you, Tess! I don't think you missed much...Thank you, Tess! I don't think you missed much by falling asleep before the end. It continued in the same vein...Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-26925732612651396822013-01-05T10:17:33.987+00:002013-01-05T10:17:33.987+00:00I fell asleep towards the end of this 'beauty&...I fell asleep towards the end of this 'beauty'. Arrogant talking heads, who are more interested in<br />in whatever impression they are trying to create than getting underneath their subjects and<br />presenting balanced comment leave more than a lot to be desired. As a slag fest, I give this<br />an A+. Tessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-47376151859911359242013-01-04T20:18:25.487+00:002013-01-04T20:18:25.487+00:00Thank you very much for your comment, Jan. I agree...Thank you very much for your comment, Jan. I agree with you that royalties (often against their own wishes) have been held to a superhuman standard...and it amazes me that so many people seem to revel in finding the worst aspects of people and magnifying them! I wonder how many of us would come out as perfect if our lives were placed under the microscope!<br />Thank you for commenting :-)Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-18822705641438403422013-01-04T19:58:49.527+00:002013-01-04T19:58:49.527+00:00I agree absolutely. Big surprise: Victoria wasn&#...I agree absolutely. Big surprise: Victoria wasn't a perfect mother! She was needy! She was devoted to her husband! I could make a long, long list of the mothers I've known throughout my life who were similar to or worse than Victoria in their neediness, or were otherwise 'flawed.' All parents are 'flawed' because they're human beings!!!<br /> <br />You know, though, that the royalty and other families in the limelight have endured this parsing of their virtues and vices for a long time. Down through the generations, the general populace has cherished a blighted misconception wherein it holds these royals to a higher, almost inhuman standard. Time and time again it has been disappointed in this regard, but it never lets go of that standard.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03442105456308732177noreply@blogger.com