In this episode, we talk about Queen Victoria’s early reign and her marriage to Prince Albert. Listen in to learn about German sausage slander, being cold and emasculated, and our distorted assumptions about female rulers. What did you think of Victoria and Albert’s love story?

References:

• Queen Victoria's Early Letters by John Raymond (ed.)
• Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions by Matthew Dennison
• Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds by Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent (eds.)
• Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert by Stanley Weintraub
• Painting: 'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor), National Gallery
• 'Of Hype and Type: The Media Making of Queen Victoria 1837-1845' by John Plunkett
• 'Queen Victoria : A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works' by C. V. Reeds
• 'Queen Victoria – Icon of the Victorian Age and Feminism' by Aimée Stagl and Günter Fahrnberger
• 'Sex, sovereignty and sausages: TV writer traces prejudice against Germans back to Victoria’s time' by Vanessa Thorpe (The Guardian)
• '"She will wear the britsch": Masculinity and the iconography of Prince Albert' by Hannah Bradshaw
• 'The Historiography of Queen Victoria: On the Threshold of Private Psychoanalysis and Public Feminism' by Rebecca Willis
• 'The Bicentenary of Queen Victoria' by Miles Taylor
• 'Visualising Victoria: Gender, Genre and History in The Young Victoria (2009)' by Julia Kinzler
• '"We Don't Want Any German Sausages Here!" Food, Fear, and the German Nation in Victorian and Edwardian Britain' by Keir Waddington