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- Published on: Thursday, May 17, 2018
- To Queen Victoria, marriages were about strategic alliances.Correction: At 5:38, the map of post-war Germany is missing eastern Prussia. The borders of Austria-Hungary should also include portions of northern Serbia and southern Poland.Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjOThis video was produced in collaboration between Vox and BBCThree.Over the course of her 63-year reign, Queen Victoria strategically planned marriages to place her descendants in royal families all over Europe. In doing so, she created one of the most remarkable royal families in history. By the early 19th century, Europe had been at war for decades. After the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars killed millions, European leaders came together to restore peace by reshaping major states for a new balance of power. Great Britain went on to become one of the strongest states. And years later, Queen Victoria and her husband Albert came up with a plan to maintain that political power — they married their children to monarchs across Europe. By the 1880s Queen Victoria’s children were in several important branches of Europe’s monarchies. The royal unions didn't play out as Queen Victoria planned, but she continued to make more matches anyway. She had 42 grandchildren, and these 7 ended up on royal thrones. Her grandchildren would end up on the thrones of Britain, Russia, Germany, Romania, Norway, and Spain leading up to the most destructive war Europe had ever seen. To truly understand the international conflicts and trends shaping our world you need a big-picture view. Video journalist Sam Ellis uses maps to tell these stories and chart their effects on foreign policy.Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com.Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyEFollow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06oOr Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H
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Vox
1 years agoThis is the second of three videos we're doing in collaboration with BBC Three, all about royal weddings! Watch the first one, that breaks down all the basics, here: http://bit.ly/2wQBxad
Phanitej Kanchu
14 hours agoEngland, if you read history, start every thing, every time very well, but always backfire in horrible way, after few decades they take credit of result saying they started the trend.
golden chariot
7 months agohttp://www.faithfreedom.org/sinas-challenge/
Venom
1 years agoKeeping Up With The Victorians
Nigel Marvin
19 days agoHonestly, that is a show I wanna watch.
o o f
20 days agoI would honestly watch that show
Dawud G Delves
1 years agoQueen Victoria was the first Kris Jenner.
Kathryn Baudelaire
1 months agoHahahaha
Molly Dx
1 months agoyou’re doing amazing sweetie!
Mobile Legends Pampanga
1 years agoWorld war 1 = family feud
Vee Cee
5 days agoAll wars are family feuds
10521577A
21 days agoso basically Markle will start a war lol
Daniel Read
1 years agoSo basically you're telling me... queen victoria was a pimp?
A Fun Guy Named Kawhi
2 months agoFunny but true, very upscale pimp indeed.
Oktodenn
1 years agoVictoria clearly plays a bit to much Crusader Kings II
Alex Ye
3 months ago@A.K.A Matt You and we don't know whether the Pope was a satanist. If he was and hid it well, how would we know?
Simple Maker
7 months ago@merchantfanOH LMAO
Maz S
1 years agoI think Victoria Beckham deserves the title "former spice girl" over David Beckham's wife thank you
Kurang Senang Brand
5 months agoDavid beckham is more popular than the spice girl
Justin Y.
1 years agoIronically the US is more fascinated about the Royals than the British are
Deku Bakugo
15 days agoYuh
Rimmi Peepsicles
1 months agoActually, I agree with Justin on this one.
wizard 22
1 years agoQueen Victoria, the ultimate shipper who shipped her children with people from different countries with different cultures, in an effort to bring peace to Europe.
WhyNot StayHonest
12 days agoCentral Europe was already at peace tho
Angus Yang
3 months agoCough, World War I, cough
Andrew Farrell
1 years agoYou left out the personal messages between Kaiser Wilhelm and Tzar Nickolas as they called each other by their boyhood names Willy and Nicky and tried to stop the war.
Lucas Linares
6 days agoDiana Hernandez George and Nicky were really good-looking😍
anon ymous
13 days agothe fact that this bloodshed brought out the childhood innocence from their youth makes it all the more saddening