The Guardian’s review on 2nd January of BBC2’s “Queen Victoria’s Children” included the following parenting advice on “how to bring up children the Victoria and Albert way”:
If she lies I will beat her. I will teach her mathematics and to play the piano, and if she gets a sum or note wrong I shall beat her some more. And she will get many sums wrong and many notes wrong…so I will beat her and beat her and beat her. Not because I dislike of resent her… but because I love her and want to do the right thing by her, as well as to be seen by other people to be doing the right thing.
Oh, how I want to play an extended Victorian father / daughter scene, over the course of a weekend. My house, being Edwardian, is a tad too modern, but who cares! Not that I know anyone who’d actually be up for it, but the idea so appeals…!
PS Actually, in the original review it was ‘him’ not ‘her’ – the son in question being the future Edward VII. But I can transpose the gender, right?
Do tell us how it went! In more details!
That scenario is just so… I miss having Daddy!
The TV programme did also have a bit about him tying up (yes, *tying up*) his daughter and beating her for telling a lie… so it wasn’t just his sons.
Worse than that though, he forced them to learn how to do gardening…
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I know someone who would be up for it;)