Name: The Victorian's Sex Lives: Why Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong | Uncovered | Absolute History
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this was Victoria's favorite pose, the grim impress,

she seems to preside over a joyless world

gave their submissive women little pleasure,

Sexual relationships were often unhappy affairs.

But the Victorians uncovered a far more complex,

even the queen herself was an ardent lover,

it was the fun she and Albert enjoyed in bed,

that gave her marriage enduring power and that marriage,

became an inspiring example to the entire nation.

It was an example that many simply could not follow,

to live in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Princess Victoria was born into a wicked world.

weekend house parties were an excuse for bed swapping,

aristocratic access was satirized by popular cartoonists.

One of their chief targets was George the fourth,

the respectable middle-classes despised him.

- [Narrator] In 1826, Victoria visited her uncle

and spendthrift uncles they were also womanizing uncles,

and a great number of aunts but no cousins

because all the children they had were illegitimate.

- [Narrator] When the little princess arrived at court,

she was received by the King and his mistress.

- Give me your little paw, that's it, hey.

Victoria had a lot in common with her desolate uncles,

she adored the theater, music and dancing

but this sensual pleasure loving world was being swept away,

expected to be pious, hardworking and chaste,

the sexual depravity of the upper classes

and preached to return to godliness and virtue.

that she would represent this new era of respectability,

where her uncles had been wicked, she would be good.

Her innocence and virtue would be a fresh start

The young queen recorded her good intentions in her diary.

- [Victoria] I am very young and perhaps in many,

but I am sure that very few have more real goodwill

- [Narrator] Her moral upbringing had paid off

but her passionate nature had not been quite tamed,

She was fascinated by her prime minister Lord Melbourne,

he was one of the old order, an embodiment of everything,

she spent up to six hours a day in his company,

- Melbourne, frequented all the posh mansions in London,

and he came back with lovely stories to tell her stories

of sexual intrigue and of people running off

with other Duchesses or Dukes wives or husbands

and maybe all she ever knew about sex from these stories.

- [Narrator] Their relationship grew so close,

loved Melbourne's stories but faced with a real sex scandal,

her moral upbringing triumphed with terrible consequences

for one of her own staff Lady Flora Hastings,

the crisis that followed is still remembered,

- When I was young I used to go up to stay,

in my grandmother's house next to the castle

and my grandmother when we wrote letters home,

used to produce these sheets of little stamps like this

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