Is it necessary to have a happy life if you are smart and talented?
The answer is no.
Some people come from very good backgrounds, because of their talent, they are highly expected by their parents, and then she is arranged to take a road and try to make a big difference.
But fate was a joke, and he was depressed for life.
Princess Victoria is such a female school bully.
Princess Victoria
Princess Victoria looks like her mother, Queen Victoria, but is very studious like her father, Prince Albert. There is no doubt that Queen Victoria was very fond of this eldest daughter, and she was given the title of "The Princess Royal" at the age of 1 after her birth.
At the age of 1.3 years, Princess Victoria showed her youthful precociousness, her language talent was extremely high, she soon learned French, at the age of 4 began to learn German, at the age of 6, she began to learn arithmetic, geography and history.
The infant Princess Victoria
During Edward's lifetime, Victoria was the presumptive heir to the throne. But with the continued birth of younger siblings, it was clear that her educational plan could not be compared with that of the younger brother of the heir to the throne. But Victoria is a very curious girl, and it can even be said that she inherited her father's perfectionism. She never accepted defeat and took the initiative to ask for an increase in the variety and intensity of her studies, studying from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day.
His father, Prince Albert, was so fond of his eldest daughter that he taught her politics and philosophy, and Victoria's life was heavily influenced by her father's liberal ideas. Although she is intelligent and pampered, Victoria also inherits her mother's violent and stubborn temper, she laughs at her brother Edward's grades, and strictly supervises the schoolwork of other younger siblings, so everyone regards her as a respectable but unsympathetic big sister!
In 1851, William and his wife Augusta came to London with their son, Prince Frederick, during the Universal Exposition. Frederick was 19 years old at the time, his English was very bad, and he was obviously very embarrassed when communicating in public. Princess Victoria, who was only 11 years old at the time, stepped forward and spoke to him in fluent and standard German, which made Prince Frederick very impressed with this little Lori.
Prince Frederick
Prince Frederick, like Prince Albert, was a liberal who envied london's open environment and was uncomfortable with the conservative and closed atmosphere of Berlin. Although the age gap with Victoria is not small, Victoria is erudite and intelligent, and many of her views coincide with Frederick. After returning home, Frederick began to correspond closely with Victoria, and the relationship between the two deepened in the letters.
For the relationship between the two, the queen and his wife are happy to see it come true. They hoped to marry victoria, the eldest daughter who had inherited her parents' will, into Prussia, on the one hand, to strengthen ties with Prussia, and on the other hand, the ambitious British also wanted the British will to influence the future of Prussia.
The Prussians disagreed on this issue. The Hohenzollern conservatives preferred their crown prince to marry a princess from the Romanov family, because Prussia and Russia were closer at this time. Liberals, on the other hand, favor a closer relationship with the British crown.
Princess Victoria and Prince Frederick
After various political battles, the like-minded couple eventually became husband and wife, and the two held a grand wedding at the Royal Chapel at St. James's Palace in England, but this wedding also became the unfortunate beginning of the second half of Victoria's life.
In terms of blood, after the fall of the Stuart dynasty, George I of the Hanoverian dynasty was already of German blood. Most of the subsequent queen's candidates came from the principalities of the German Confederation, and Princess Victoria's father, Prince Albert, was born in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a principality of the German Confederation.
Wedding of Princess Victoria and Prince Frederick
It was indeed German blood by blood, but the British Empire was in its golden age, and from Queen Victoria to her children, and even the whole of Britain was proud to be British. In order to prepare a dowry for Princess Victoria, the British Parliament decided to give Victoria a dowry of 40,000 pounds and pay her 8,000 pounds a year. King Frederick William IV of Prussia gave his nephew Frederick an annual income of 9,000 tahl. I looked up the information online and it was £1000 = £150. From the income of the two, it can be seen that the income of the heir to the Prussian throne and the income of the future wife are not equal, and the cost of the wedding is mostly paid by Princess Victoria.
The problem that made the Germans even more dissatisfied came from the place where the wedding was held. The Hohenzollern family firmly believed that the wedding of the heir to the Prussian throne should take place in Berlin, while Queen Victoria insisted that the wedding of her eldest daughter must take place in her native Britain. The Queen even publicly declared at the banquet: "I don't care what the Prussian tradition is, but not every day a Prussian prince can marry the eldest daughter of the Queen of England". Although this conflict was eventually smoothed out by both sides, the British were superior to me and I were stronger than you, so the momentum that should be dominated by me had already been deeply rooted in the minds of prussians. Eventually, the couple completed their wedding in England, but the hidden dangers of the wedding were buried early in Princess Victoria's later life.
After their marriage, the Crown Prince and his wife moved to Berlin, and Victoria began to correspond frequently with her parents. Victoria wrote to her father every week and often expressed her views on Prussian political events. To tell the truth, although Princess Victoria is very intelligent, she carries the "characteristics" of the Empire that never sets: arrogance, superiority, and judgment of others with a lofty attitude. So when she came to Prussia from the more advanced and bustling and even extravagant London, Victoria's feelings were uncomfortable, uncomfortable, unaccustomed.
Princess Victoria and mother Queen Victoria
The traditional customs of the Prussian court were very different from those of the English court, and it was more conservative here. Victoria is like an arrogant white swan, often with a condescending attitude, disdainful of superficial efforts. The upper and lower levels of the Hohenzollern court had rejected the new crown princess, and now looking at her dustless attitude, the contradictions between the two sides were getting deeper and deeper. And Queen Victoria not only did not play a positive role, but even added fuel to the fire in the communication, the queen never forgot to remind her daughter, you are the eldest princess of the United Kingdom, you should be proud of the British Empire, and always take the United Kingdom as the priority. As a result, Victoria made a more dignified gesture, which made the Prussians hate this woman even more.
Princess Victoria and husband
The close correspondence between mother and daughter and father and daughter made the Prussians secretly wonder whether the crown princess's every move was dominated by the queen. So whether it was Prussia or the later German Empire, the most typical evaluation of Victoria was "the English woman".
Victoria withstood the enormous pressure and focused her energies on the conception of children. Soon she had good news, and more than a year after her marriage, she gave birth to her first child, the future German Emperor Wilhelm II.
William with his mother Princess Victoria
Queen Victoria was concerned about her daughter and grandson, and she sent her usual doctor to her. Unfortunately, Victoria encountered a difficult delivery during her first childbirth, the British doctor missed, and although William was born smoothly, his gluteal plexus and arm nerves were damaged to varying degrees. Doctors repeatedly emphasized that the little prince's arm was able to heal, but as he grew older, William's two arms developed abnormally, and when Prince William became an adult, his left arm was 15 centimeters shorter than his right arm.
Young Prince William
Prussian militarism did not appear only during World War I and World War II, and in the traditional Prussian conception, a boy must have a strong physique, which is a prerequisite for him to become a good soldier in the future. What does disability mean for a prince who will inherit the Prussian throne in the future? The birth of the little prince was supposed to be a universal celebration, but there was silence in the court of Hohenzollern. Growing up, the humiliation of his disabled left arm was enormous. The veiled pity, mocking gaze of his friends surrounded him at all times. When he entered the school, someone even provoked William and said, "A man with one arm is not worthy of the Prussian throne." ”
William's disability also brought Victoria a devastating blow. Victoria was an arrogant perfectionist who held herself in high esteem, and when she learned that she had given birth to a disabled son, Victoria could hardly accept this fact. It wasn't William's fault that Victoria should have given the child more love and care. But from the bottom of her heart, she couldn't accept that she had given birth to a disabled son, so she would often look at William with undisguised disappointment, as if she were looking at a failed work.
William II
William was very sensitive because of his disability, and when he was a child, he was very attached to his mother and hoped to be comforted by her. But again and again, it was the mother's rebuke and criticism, and she rejected this disabled child from the bottom of her heart, completely unable to get close. William's love for his mother gradually twisted, he was silent, using a strong posture to cover up his inferiority and pain, and gradually drifted away from his mother Victoria. Now we can judge the actions of Wilhelm II only from the remaining words, and it has to be said that disability may have been the cause of William's becoming a complex, contradictory, militarist.
Frederick William IV and Queen Elizabeth Ludovika had no descendants, so the throne passed to his younger brother William I. William I was a militarist from a young age, and once brutally suppressed the Constitutional Protection Movement, known as the Prince of butchers. Obviously, he did not appreciate the liberalism of his son and daughter-in-law.
And what are the Victorians' plans? William I was 64 years old when he succeeded to the throne, in the 19th century, more than 60 years old is definitely an elderly person, modern society is 60 years old retirement, at this time to become king how many years can you do? The crown prince and his wife had a beautiful illusion that as long as they survived the old father, they would be able to build New Prussia according to their own ideas.
The ideal is very full, the reality is very bone, William I lived to the age of 90.
A year before the death of William I, Crown Prince Frederick was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer. After the death of William I, Crown Prince Frederick ascended the throne for Frederick III. But at this time he had reached the advanced stage of laryngeal cancer, and after only 99 days on the throne Frederick III rode to the west, Victoria's eldest son William succeeded to the throne, known as William II.
At this time, William had fallen out with his mother Victoria, and after Frederick was diagnosed with a malignant tumor, the couple decided to refuse the operation to remove the throat on the advice of British doctors and changed to conservative treatment. William, on the other hand, quarreled with her mother, believing that her mind was full of England and did not want to cure her father, and could even say that her mother was schadenfreude about her father's illness. Frederick III had just taken his breath in Potsdam's new palace when Wilhelm II ordered troops to occupy the palace and even search the king's bedroom. William II then vigorously straightened out all institutions with which his parents had close relations, uprooting those close to Frederick and Victoria.
He did not honor his mother, and Victoria was simply called "Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Frederick", and there was no honor other than that.
Wilhelm II moved his mother out of Potsdam's new palace. Victoria was only able to acquire a plot of property in the Taunus mountains of Kronberg to build a castle, and spent most of the remainder of the year under the close surveillance of Wilhelm II with her young daughter Princess Margaret.
Princess Victoria was with her daughters
As her daughters got married, Victoria became increasingly lonely, and she wanted to participate in politics or charity. But William did not give her this opportunity, and he firmly excluded his mother Victoria from prussian social circles. The proud Victoria wrote to her son mercilessly, criticizing him harshly, but what was the use, the mother and son had already been separated, and William at this time did not care about his mother's opinion.
So Victoria could only devote most of her time to painting. She paints, visits artist gathering places, and spends a lot of time writing and reading. Letters between Victoria and her parents have been preserved almost intact, including 3,777 letters from the Queen to Victoria and about 4,000 letters from Victoria to her mother. On 5 August 1901, less than seven months after the death of her mother, Queen Victoria, Victoria died in Frederick Castle.
Although Victoria's appearance is not absolutely beautiful, she is also a beautiful woman. Well educated, knowledgeable, noble, elegant, not to mention her pension is very rich. She and Frederick III are also in agreement, the same political views, she has a strong personality, Frederick is softer, very well matched, but the ambitious two ended up with a grand ambition.
Victoria, who was taught by her father, Prince Albert, had her own views on politics. From the perspective of modern people, she is obviously right, in line with the trend of history, but she is in berlin. Perhaps it was a bad fate, met the father-in-law William I, who had the opposite political views and lived a long life, and then his husband had just ascended to the throne and died suddenly, and his son William hated his mother to the bone... The mother-son relationship that hated each other was not completely erased by the trivialities of life, but mainly because of the opposing political views of mother and son. Of course, the character flaws of both men paved the way for the subsequent rupture, and love and hate are two sides of the emotion.
Elderly Princess Victoria
Victoria had plenty of food and clothing throughout her life. But really speaking, Princess Victoria is also a loser, no less than the education of the crown prince, with thousands of ideals, but full of ambition, but there is no room for play. Queen Victoria's carefully taught daughter eventually ended up in a mother-son separation, and could only die alone in the castle.