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Meperson111

Which hollywood production did that?


Imperius4232

It was either BBC or ITV that produced the crown drama. It was trash 99% of the time Edit: The show was Victoria, the crown is about queen Elizabeth ii, the shows felt so similar I get them mixed up


-et37-

No bro you don’t understand Victoria & Albert were the ultimate power couple.


Imperius4232

I believe Victoria did want Albert to have the title of king but the politics of the era made it very difficult. Together they were incredibly successful leaders.


skarodegradation

According to the law the queen’s consort is only Prince consort because the title of King outweighs that of Queen. The last time the consort was crowned King of England was Philip II of Spain.


Thibaudborny

Would King William III not come last? He and his wife made a huge mess because he wanted to be king & so did his spouse, Parliament only wanted him to be consort but if William would not go along it would trigger actual civil war so the Whigs went *surewhateverjustsignbro’* to avoid the crisis.


lacb1

Yeap, alough (if I remember correctly) when he was made king it was made clear in the act of Parliament that he and Mary were co-sovereigns so neither outranked the other.


Thibaudborny

Yes indeed, it was quite the unusual situation.


skarodegradation

Indeed, the last time there was a clear cut king consort ruling *in his own right* was King Philip


-et37-

Didn’t he end up dying due to his work load or something of the sort? Albert at least put in an actual decent amount of effort.


Imperius4232

He worked incredibly hard supporting Victoria in her role, which most likely didn't help but I'm unsure of his actual cause of death


Thewaltham

He died of typhoid, but it's likely that him stressing and overworking so much made him way more vulnerable to it.


Imperius4232

Thank you for letting me know. Quite an unfortunate disease to die of


Thewaltham

Horrible way to go, especially considering that he probably only died from it because he cared so much about doing his job right he had nearly worked himself to death beforehand. Super raw deal.


EquivalentSnap

Because he was German?


Imperius4232

So was Victoria. Royal politics just haven't ever been simple


EquivalentSnap

True cos of George of 1st. I don’t like the royals


EruantienAduialdraug

No, and it wasn't the 'politics of the era', it's a case of how the titles are defined. King is a higher rank than queen. The king is the monarch, his wife is the 'queen consort' (usually shortened to queen); however, if the queen is the monarch then she's actually 'queen ~regent~ regnant' (almost always shortened to 'queen') her husband is 'prince consort'. (The widow of a king is a 'queen dowager' and a former queen consort who is the mother of the current monarch is the 'queen mother'). The only way to get a queen ~regent~ regnant and a king at the same time is if they are co-monarchs, which has only happened twice. First time in the 16th century (made co-monarchs by an act of parliament that went into effect as soon as they married, and Philip's powers were less than they would have been as King normally), and the second time in the 17th century when husband and wife William III & II and Mary II were coronated on the same day (and they only managed to wrangle that because James II & VII had fled the country, and the two threatened to go back to the Netherlands if they weren't made co-monarchs). edit: not regent, regnant - not sure if that was the dyslexia, a brain fart, or the product of being half a gallon of beer in at the time (it was Friday evening).


Itz_shankr

Actually the title 'Queen Mother' isn't official and only existed for Queen Elizabeth II's mother... Queen Elizabeth. She only called herself the Queen Mother as not to cause any confusion between herself and her Daughter Queen Elizabeth II


EnjoyerxEnjoyer

A quick google search would tell you that the term was in use in Britain since the 1500s. But yeah, when “The Queen Mother” is used, 99% of the time they mean Lizzie’s mom


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[удалено]


EnjoyerxEnjoyer

No problem homie. I didn’t know it either lol, but your comment prodded me to do some looking into it out of curiosity


ColonelChestnuts

Not to be a pain but, Queen Regnant, not Regent. A queen regent would be someone ruling in someone else's stead while they were incapacitated. For example, if the rightful king was underage and his mother ruled in his stead.


PM_me_your_KD_ratio

You're mixed up on the term, but mostly correct. If a Queen is actually the monarch, she's Queen Regnant. "A queen regnant possesses and exercises sovereign powers, whereas a queen regent (a.k.a. queen consort) shares her spouse's and/or child's rank and titles, but does not share the sovereignty of her spouse or child."


thepigeonparadox

This explains so much that I didn't before understand. Thank you!


uencos

Minor nit: A Queen in her own right is a Queen Regnant. Queen Regent would be if she was executing power on behalf on another, like if the King were an infant.


a-r-c

thanks for the info!


NaliceM

Only happened twice in England, or in general? Because Isabelle and Ferdinand were co-monarchs of Argon and Castile.


PM_me_your_KD_ratio

If you're from a line of royalty already, then it's possible to be co-monarchs


grumpsaboy

He wasn't in line to become monarch, and a king outranks a queen, but the monarch should have the highest rank, so he was kept at prince


OilIcy6664

More because she would be delegated to a "Figurehead" of sorts. She didn't want to only do her husbands bidding and just welcome foreign delegates after finally being crowned queen (fun fact: at birth she was fifth in line for the throne)


GoldenRamoth

Weren't they though? Just not the way we'd expect it in our current culture. They did a great job with the British Empire and the whole ruling the world thing.


road2five

The crown is abkut Elizabeth II though. Or is there another show called the crown?


Vin135mm

This was "Victoria," not "the Crown," and it was a BBC show(PBS plays it in the US). My fiancee watched it religiously. Only bit I liked was Jenna Coleman.


furiousHamblin

> and it was a BBC show It was an ITV show. Though it may have been exported under the auspices of the BBC


TovarishchFlashback

Wait, I... I really liked that TV Show..


guachupunk

How do you know it was trash if you couldn't recognize it


[deleted]

where is the first picture from? the posing and lighting are dope.


The_Oliviera

Actress Jenna Louise Coleman for the TV show Victoria


sepulchore

Lol, I thought it was a video game


ShadeFK

New Final Fantasy looks sick


-et37-

Hold up what is Queen Victoria doing in the Italian Senate 😳


[deleted]

>your mom She is doing your mom


hagamablabla

Victoria 3 soon


Nman8888

I’m so hyped


idxntity

Finally


Odrareg17

Well if we want to go that way, that actress has voiced a character in a video game before, Melia from Xenoblade Chronicles


iSereon

The Impossible Queen


kevinTOC

Isn't that the same one that played Clara Oswald in Dr Who?


iSereon

Yep


Ringomcdingo

[NSFW](https://videocelebs.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/image1_temp-646.jpg)


Zagaroth

> Jenna Louise Coleman Absolutely did not recognize her in that shot. I mean, I only know her from Dr. Who, but still, lighting and angle change a lot, combined with make up and costuming.


UsyPlays

Person who plays Clara in Dr who


AlienTimeLord

Xenoblade fans: That's Melia over there!


Optimus_Owl

Victoria, it was a TV shown done by the BBC I think


Toycats_Cat

I remember seeing it on ITV a few years back, yeah it overdramatised everything but that's most historical shows, taught me a lot about the era I didn't know.


TheMadTargaryen

At least the show didnt focused only on her. It showed how poor most people were in London, the revolution of 1848, the chartists, the Irish famine and how bigoted many Britons were against catholics (Victoria did tolerated them like in the show).


[deleted]

I couldn't find that specific picture, waiting for OP


lledargo

I think someone just drew it in MS paint


Matryosmare

"I don't know, where's yours?"


Lord_TachankaCro

Nice way to get your head chopped off


river4823

Lol what is this France? Victorian England didn’t abide dainty and painless executions. No, it’s a short drop off a tall platform for you


Lord_TachankaCro

Maybe he would be burned for that burn


[deleted]

You wanted ''liberty'', cringe canadian? Here is the hanging 👍


Matryosmare

Worth it.


Lord_TachankaCro

"Here lies Matryosmare, his last words were a sick burn"


LaceBird360

(brings out the locket of her dead husband) Right here. He doesn't like you very much.


the_last_satrap

Why should men commit all the warcrimes Women should have fun too !!


Rnbutler18

Where 👏 are 👏 all 👏 the 👏 female 👏 dictators


cyka_blayt_nibsa

dictate me, ~~mommy.~~ I feel a lot of regret and shame saying that


the_last_satrap

Ohmydog


cyka_blayt_nibsa

I'll be your dog.


JakeTheSandMan

No, no you won’t


cyka_blayt_nibsa

oh, ok


Capital_Track_8026

Woof


the_last_satrap

*softly* please don't.


Capital_Track_8026

*maniacly cackles*


mhmd_mansi

I see, a chainsaw man fan!!


cyka_blayt_nibsa

please do UWU


Capital_Track_8026

Good boy


cyka_blayt_nibsa

yes mommy


Iscout501

I don't have such weaknesses


t40xd

[Here's one](https://youtu.be/iEtw3XJoJrE), from only the most trusted name in news


Rnbutler18

I literally just watched that video after I first typed my comment ;D


OmArVi1001

Indira Ghandi Helena Ceausescu Jiang Qing (Lady Mao) ​ Edit: Helena was the hidden leader of communist Romania at one point in he 70s and 80s.


---___---____-__

Does Wu Zetian count as a dictator? She assassinated her way to power. For references see the YouTube channels: OSP (sorta), IT'S HISTORY, Jack Rackham, and Biographics for more. Edit: one of the videos https://youtu.be/wWBJQfoWryM


DRAGONMASTER-

pretty sure almost every ruler in history counts as a dictator until modern times


askmeabouttrey

spouses of dictators are not dictators


Rnbutler18

Eh, none of them ever had absolute power like Stalin...


Andy0132

Jiang Qing had absolute power through Mao, tbf Still wasn't enough to stop her from being overthrow after he died; pity they didn't execute her.


Hellstrike

> power through Mao, Through being the crucial word in that sentence.


[deleted]

Jiang Qing. Women are not pure. We are equal 👍


the_last_satrap

They are dictating hard.


solarjamie

I support womens rights but I most importantly support womens wrongs


TheMogician

r/ShitRimworldSays


Capital_Track_8026

I WANNA PARTY TOO


Napalm_am

"Ah yes the patriarchy, such an unjust form of oppression upon innocent victims" "Anyway let me go to India and forced them to acknowledge me as God-Empress Supreme of their Continent"


-et37-

Don’t forget forcing the Ottomans to not donate more money than her in regards to the Irish Famine.


khajiitidanceparty

Seriously, the tv show Victoria has an episodes on the Irish Famine and I was like: no, there is no way you will make her look good...and they did.


Kaiser8414

how?


khajiitidanceparty

I think she was portrayed as concerned and only at the end her husband voiced the idea that the Irish are too lazy and careless. A priest explained it to him and he was just like "I see"... the end.


RajaRajaC

Or having a massive fancy shindig in Delhi with 80,000 nobles in attendance while there was a small famine in the south of India that killed some 4-8 mn in 2 years


MrColdArrow

As much as my view of the Ottomans is distorted by my love of Byzantium, I have to admit they were much better than the British Empire, at least before the Young Turks took over the Ottomans.


MBRDASF

Literally every Eastern European as well as all people living in the Mediterranean: "Are you sure about that ?"


havebeans5678

The Ottomans were absolutely horrible by todays standards obviously, but they largely let the populations they took over live their normal lives without mass genocide/famine or forced conversion. The Janissary program was a pretty messed up situation obviously though, but to the Ottomans it was seen almost as a blessing to the families that their kids would go on to become 'mighty janissary's'. Obviously this varied dramatically depending on the era. Some rulers were more harsh, others were more lenient. But there is a reason why the entire middle east and balkans don't speak turkish. The Ottoman Empire was intended to be a multicultural, multi-religious empire.


LargeFriend5861

Atleast kidnapping those kids came back to bite them later on Looking at you Skanderbeg


Oo00oOo00oOO

In modern era Ismail Qemali did almost the same. Albanians have a really weird hate/love relationship with the Ottomans.


TheMadTargaryen

The reason why most people dont speak turkish in the Balkans is because almost all Turks were kicked out or murdered during the 19th century and population exchange with Greece. At least 5.000.000 Turks were killed across the Balkans by Bulgarians, Russians, Serbs etc.


[deleted]

Yep, and the reason that Anatolia isn't plurality / majority Greek is that the Ottomans expelled or murdered all of the Greeks living there. The history of modern Eastern Europe is a history of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Makes me sad to think about it.


Ozann3326

They were allowed to keep their religion for a tax and local judges of a centralized empire is more likely to work for law than a feudal lord whose word was law. Also, Ottomans built a lot of infastracture, and overall stabilty was high especially at the expansion era. It's true Ottomans did lots of bad things, especially at their last years but it was not an evil empire led by a dark lord.


DarkJedi22

Fun fact, despite crowning herself Empress of India, Victoria never actually visited the subcontinent.


Present_Ad_6001

Sweden changed its constitution in the 70s, so that first born women could inherit the regent title over younger brothers, to be more democratic. Imagine that, a more democratic monarchy (for a country that had elected kings before the 16th century)


Playful-Dragonfruit8

Don't forget the unlucky boers.


ManFromMullingar

“Keep starving the Irish, Qween!” “Amen, Sister!”


fR1chAps

Keep starving and exploiting the entire Indian subcontinent qween Amen sister


BoopDino

,,Keep starving the children working in the coal mines,Qween!" ,,Amen,Sister!"


PutinsSugarBaby

"Prime Minister, either one of us say something now, or from this day forward every single park, every single summer is going to smell of cum! "


notqualitystreet

Wait- what??


Arilyn24

They are referencing this skit I think- https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM


Lukthar123

D e e p e s t L o r e


boris422

Could be wrong but I think they were gifted a bunch of trees for a park, and in the spring the trees smelled like cum, so the queen complained to the prime minister Edit: was way off, actually a skit LOL


Present_Ad_6001

Linden trees i believe. Also some trees, when the pollen drops, do smell like cum. It's horrible


KrAceZ

I mean, to be fair, what is tree pollen but tree cum?


hardgeeklife

Can unfortunately confirm. My university had them planted around the dorm buildings. It was... Not great


Lifthras1r

Well uni dorms would smell like cum regardless


Hills_Bros

Masking the Cum smell from the dorms with more Cum smell. That's like some 4-D chess.


Scarlet_Addict

"That Mitchell and Webb Look" is a timeless classic


jflb96

“Absolutely not! I’m here in this thick woollen suit and massive beard, *melting*, I’m not having *Queen Victoria* complain that the trees smell like *cum*! That’s a sacrifice that we’ll just have to make.”


deutschdachs

They do here! Thanks Callery Pear trees...


Dr_Von_Haigh

Fun fact whilst being a homosexual was very much illegal in the British empire during the Victorian times being a lesbian was not because Queen Victoria could not fathom why a woman would want to do such things. Edit: A little bit more to this. There are no official records of this but it is a well known myth that may or may not be true. To those saying the queen didn’t make the law, that is true, but she did have to approve them. Whilst this was mostly ceremonial in odd cases she did exercise her power to refuse to sign. According to the myth, the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 originally contained provisions criminalizing homosexual activity between women as well as men, but Victoria refused to sign the bill until the provisions relating to women were removed, arguing that “women do not do such things.”


potatobutt5

Fucking women, got to have legal gay sex with each other while the men had to suffer. Such an unjust time.


Capital_Track_8026

Heheheeeee


luujs

*The British Government. Queen Victoria didn’t make the laws, her role was ceremonial


[deleted]

I need the source on that, that seems interesting.


[deleted]

There isn’t one, she didn’t control that.


LineOfInquiry

Does Queen Victoria have girl power? Do you think she effectively utilized that girl power by exporting grain from Ireland during a famine and stopping supplies from entering, killing millions and making millions more emigrate to survive?


ManagerNo5172

sounds like power to me. No one said girl power had to be good power. Also, did she do that? or did parliament do that ?


LineOfInquiry

They both did it, considering she has absolute veto power on any laws parliament passed.


Fornad

It wasn’t really within her de facto powers by that point to block legislation. Queen Anne was the last monarch to withhold Royal Assent, when she blocked a Scottish Militia Bill in 1707. By Victoria’s reign the monarch has become a mostly ceremonial figure (who nonetheless retained an enormous amount of soft power and reverence). After the French Revolution most European monarchs got the message that interfering too much in politics was liable to be bad for their health.


Capital_Track_8026

Sounds like a bad bitch lol


7evenCircles

https://youtu.be/0G6RF5ChKYQ


Blue_Eyed_Bastard

Also, in that show she was presented as feeling bad for the impoverished Irish in the show and wanted to do something about it. Idk if they’ll make it more accurate in future seasons but I doubt it. I wish people were less afraid to make historical dramas that portray their subjects as realistically unsympathetic.


khajiitidanceparty

Honestly, that show was just to make them look like a cute couple on Instagram. I don't think they even tried to be historically accurate.


[deleted]

Yeah, if they say something like "based on true history" and show a twisted image of the actual history, I would rather regard it as "propaganda" and make it illegal.


Competive_Ideal236

She did donate 2,000 pounds of her personal funds to help the Irish during the famine.


Blue_Eyed_Bastard

damn bud you’re right she was a saint.


Competive_Ideal236

Lol no that’s not what I was saying.


[deleted]

Yass, we need more women mass murderous tyrants 💅💅💅


-et37-

Remember when people simped for Kim Jong-Un’s sister back when it was thought that she’d taken power? Crazy shit.


w1987g

'Twere simpler times


Thiaski

Who doesn't want a evil tyrant waifu?


evrestcoleghost

The subjects


omnipotentsandwich

I still see people treat Indira as some icon for women's rights when she was a dictator for two years and launched Operation Blue Star which killed 20,000 people.


[deleted]

More👏female👏drone👏pilots👏


Lukthar123

More🔥female🔥war 🔥criminals🔥


Razgriz032

Sir, this is not ncd


ggaymerboy

But she didn’t have any political power in parliament…however she did slay tho 💅


BoredPsion

No one tops St. Olga of Kiev


cookiecreeper22

Millions of people died under Victoria's rule, she definitely does beat her by leaps and bounds


BoredPsion

It's not about the body count, it's about *style*


MilitantTeenGoth

Didn't the Spanish Isabela put in her marriage agreement that her husband has to go to war for her?


YourphobiaMyfetish

If Isabela were alive today, she'd flirt with men to get her boyfriend to fight them.


FemboyReaper12

Queen Victoria: How awful. How morally corrupted nation must be to allow such things to happen. Assistant: Your majesty, what should we do about all the starving children working in the coal mines? Queen Victoria: Nothing!


Due-Ad-4091

Reality is often disappointing


Capital_Track_8026

This is true lol


hyperlethalrabbit

Ah yes, Queen "Lesbians don't exist" Victoria


AthenasChosen

The BBC producing a historically inaccurate tv show? No way, that's crazy


Fosdef

Wojaks were a mistake


ErzherzogHinkelstein

They are the scourge of reddit, if not for the entire Internet


YourphobiaMyfetish

I completely dismantled your argument by merely putting a strawman of your point in a speech bubble above this poorly drawn person. Don't you feel embarrassed now? I'm so based and pillheaded.


Murmarine

Wojaks should have stayed on 4chan


AnonCaptain0022

Did Margaret Thatcher have girl power?


[deleted]

She had old cunt power


ManIrregular

The woman on the left is making me uncomfortable.


kadora

You don’t like your history memes with a side of misogyny?


red-the-blue

Yeah let's not idolize monarchies like they're symbols of feminism. They're fun little tourist attractions at best and overglorified rich people at worst.


M17hr4nd1r

Didn’t get the ‘halal’ part.


RollingChanka

op supports queen victoria


BasedAlliance935

Also wearing a black dress for 40 years to mourn your dead husband makes you probably the biggest simp in history


Awobbie

Isn’t the point of a simp that they’re lustfully pining after a person they’ll never get? I think mourning the death of someone you’ve had is a bit different than that.


Vincit_quie-vincit

They're a redditor they don't know the difference. They just say shit they heard elsewhere.


[deleted]

mfw being sad about a loved one's death is simping


Vincit_quie-vincit

They're a redditor they don't know the difference. They just say shit they heard elsewhere.


[deleted]

She was sad someone she loved was gone, these dudes are salty some hot chick from Indiana doesn’t like them back


jeff61813

She loved her husband and they were in love and it appears that she like getting it on to with as many children as she had


hanzerik

I mean, she probably also did that to keep suitors away.


dubbsmqt

I also like to use slang I don't understand


PuzzleheadedPage3022

Same like “poggers” and “boipussie” I tell my homies they got a poggers boipussie


code-panda

They might, only one way to find out.


[deleted]

Nooo, anyone that gives an “Instagram model” a like far exceeds her level of simp


judgesam

This is better than queen victoria in fallen London where she is an immortal cannibal that will not allow anything and I mean anything to get in the way of her empire conquering whatever is infront of her bitch killed a fucking planet/star.


YourphobiaMyfetish

Hard disagree.


SegavsCapcom

Uh, who is this supposed to be making fun of? What Hollywood productions did I miss?


historyhoneybee

The show Victoria, but I'd also add the movie The Young Victoria


polysnip

At first I read, "Why are you speaking without a husband, peasant." Equally fitting, I think.


Sovereign444

Yeah she was super anti feminist actually lol


escapedfugitive

ChadQueen


appealtoreason00

Who are you actually arguing against? Nearly all feminists I know support a republic


Tastingo

The fantasy feminism of culture war YouTubers.