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Queen Victoria behind closed doors

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Queen Victoria's Grandfather, George III, Was Mad, but What Was She Doing?

Albert believes that Queen Victoria has most likely inherited the royal madness. He made her keep a little book in which she wrote down each day when she lost her temper. And then he would see her every month, and they would go through her moral behaviour. She was made to feel that it was totally inappropriate for her to reign within a man's world. So all the work of the monarchy for 20 years that they're married is done by Albert.

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