Queen Victoria's Children (TV Mini Series)

The Best Laid Plans... (2013)

Piers Brendon: Self - University of Cambridge

Quotes 

• [When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first married, Albert was seen by the public to be a humourless German intellectual] 

  Piers Brendon : In Victorian England, there were all sorts of rather obscene lampoons, one of which, about the wedding night, went something like this: "Albert entered by Bushey, he advanced through Maidenhead, penetrated Virginia Water and left Staines behind". Not the sort of thing that you'd expect in Victorian England, but it was a reflection, I think, of the antipathy that Albert had created.