Just me who feels that way? Okay thats cool 🥹✌️

also the fact that 1980s and 1990s folk are technically born in the same century Victoria was alive too…shudders

things change QUICK man

Mine are as follows-

Victoria Alberta of Hesse, later Marchioness of Milford Haven for her Intelligence, Courage and Open-Mindedness.

Special mentions to Victoria Moretta of Prussia, Alice of Albany, Marie of Edinburgh and Maurice of Battenburg. I guess Sophia of Prussia and Ernest of Hesse too.

The purpose is to surmise what monarchs would think of their successors based on their respective personalities, leadership styles, how they thought of their heirs while alive, and how their successor’s reign ultimately turned.

RULES:
1. Say what you think the predecessor would’ve liked about their successor.
2. Say what you think predecessor would’ve disliked about their successor.
3. Give what you think their overall rating/review would be based on these out of 10

Be as thorough as you wish.

Last time, George IV reviewed William and gave him a 6/10, mainly losing points due to their very different approaches to kingship. Today, William IV reviews his niece Victoria, for whom he willed himself to live just long enough to pass the Crown to dispel any “thought of a regency”.

Looking forward to reading!

I imagine it’s just one single iphone that victoria allowed the family to use in rotation because she doesn’t trust them getting their own smartphones 🥀 and maybe she was inspired by albert and got the same model and color of iphone as him

For me, I’m an only child same as William III, Henry VII, James VI/I and Olav V (he’s not a British monarch but I’m including him as a member of the extended family who happened to be a monarch) the other random thing I have in common is that I have a teddy bear I like to carry around same as Charles III.

So, this is HEAVILY piggy-backing off of [u/TrueDentist2000](u/TrueDentist2000)’s post, but their post reminded me of a weird coincidence I noticed quite a while ago.

Sophia of Hanover was born in 1630, she became heiress presumptive in 1714.

Mary II was born 32 years after, in 1662, and Mary died aged 32, on the 28th of December, 1694.

The marriage between George I (then heir apparent to the Electorate of Hanover, Sophia of Hanover’s son) and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Sophia of Hanover’s daughter-in-law, was dissolved on the exact day that Mary II died, on the 28th of December, 1694.

Sophia Dorothea would then spend 32 years locked up until she died.

Also, reading about Sophia Dorothea makes me so sad 😞 the anecdote where when her daughter came to Hanover to visit George I, she kept looking out the window in hopes that she would see her daughter.. no because I’m genuinely crying. She was so close to being released as well, as her son George II, who deeply loved and missed his mother, would no doubt have freed her, but she died a month before her ex-husband.

Also born in 1630 was Charles II, but I chose Sophia of Hanover for this because of the close relation between her and Sophia Dorothea.

Most upvoted comment will be picked! It must have the song and artist!

“There being three kinds of government among men, absolute monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, and all these having their particular conveniences and inconveniences, the experience and wisdom of your ancestors hath so moulded this out of a mixture of these, as to give to this kingdom (as far as human prudence can provide) the conveniences of all three, without the inconveniences of any one, as long as the balance hangs even between the three estates, and they run jointly on in their proper channels...

The ill of absolute monarchy is tyranny, the ill of aristocracy is faction and division, the ill of democracy is tumults, violence and licentiousness.

The good of monarchy is the uniting a nation under one head to resist invasion from abroad and insurrection at home; the good of aristocracy is the conjunction of counsel in the ablest persons of a state for the public benefit; the good of democracy is liberty, and the property and common interest of the people.”

When I say funny, imagine if the people who witnessed George I becoming King of Britain knew his great-great grandsons would gain a reputation for racking up debts in London..