The Messed Up Truth About Queen Victoria

Being Queen Victoria was a pretty sweet deal, considering all her wealth, palaces, and devoted subjects. But if you scratch beneath the surface that isn't often covered in the movies and TV shows about her, you'll find plenty of calamity and controversy.

Every family has a black sheep, like a slightly racist uncle. But what if you were related to the most notorious serial killer of all time? Well, there's actually a theory that Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, was Jack the Ripper. Eddy, as he was affectionately known, was rumored to have contracted syphilis from a prostitute in the West Indies. Living in an age before penicillin was a bad time to be sexually irresponsible, as STDs were rife and there was no easy cure.

The theory goes that as the syphilis began to rot Eddy's brain, he took his revenge by killing ladies of the night in London's East End. Another theory suggests that he secretly impregnated and married a common Catholic girl from Whitechapel who was friends with Jack the Ripper's victims. Apparently, in order to stop the scandal and silence everyone who knew about it, an agent of the Royal Family started slaying anyone who knew. Victoria's physician William Gull was rumored to have carried out the dark deeds. This theory is also the basis for Alan Moore's graphic novel From Hell, which was adapted into a film starring Johnny Depp.

There was little love for Queen Victoria on the Emerald Isle. During her rule, Ireland suffered through the Great Hunger, the darkest and most despair-riddled seven years in the country's history. This fierce and unforgiving famine resulted in the deaths of one million men, women, and children and caused one million more to forsake their native country and emigrate to distant shores.

Victoria made a token gesture of donating 2,000 pounds to aid victims of the famine, but it did more harm than good. As royal protocol dictated that no one could appear more generous than the Queen, when the Sultan of Turkey offered 10,000 pounds, he was told to reduce it to below 2,000 so as not to offend Her Majesty. According to historian Christine Kinealy,

"There is no evidence that [Victoria] had any real compassion for the Irish people in any way [...] In her very long reign, she only visited Ireland four times and one of those times was 1849 when the famine was still raging but coming to an end."

Victoria's reputation was eventually so infamous in Ireland that she came to be known by the nickname "The Famine Queen." Keep watching the video to learn the messed up truth about Queen Victoria!

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The Famine Queen | 1:17
Killing Queen Victoria | 2:21
Hardcore colonialism | 3:24
Frightful mother | 4:40
The Playboy King | 5:46
The curse of Queen Victoria | 6:56
Getting high with Victoria | 8:11
Goth Victoria | 9:12
No prude | 10:09

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