Re: Amusing German Royalty Disciplinary Technique






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On Nov 28, 8:09 pm, "Candide" <PityMePi...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Katipo" <h.laughl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

However one cannot imagine Princess May (Queen Mary),
or Princess Alexandra (Queen Alexandra), ever thrashing their
children.
Cold stares and perhaps dressing them down, but not administering a
whipping. For one thing all those jewels and corsets simply do not
make
it easy to get at and hold an unruly child to do the deed properly.
*LOL*

Candide

It's interesting how you note the similarity (in part) of mothering
styles between these two royal mothers -- known to have contrasting
characters. If it came to that, the icy stare is not an uncommon
parenting style (even when restricting discussion to royals): Czar
Nicholas I of Russia was also known for this (he was quite famous for
giving his children, when they misbehaved, the silent treatment -- or
"cold blue eye").

One story has it that his eldest daughter, the Grand Duchess Maria
Nicolayevna (who also had blue eyes) once won the contest by staring
him down (talk about guts! I believe one of the younger sons of Czar
Alexander III also had a lot of nerve -- enough to tease and romp with
his father). The Romanovs were certainly an interest contrast to the
British Hanoverians and Windsors, when it came to family
relationships. Although the bulk of the rearing was left to nurses
and nannies (as in most royal houses), the parents were evidently
somewhat more affectionate than demonstrative toward their children.

To their credit, and perhaps some would say determent, both Nicholas and
Alexandra were atypical Edwardian parents, and certainly more so for an
imperial or royal family at that time. Both were very involved with
their children, especially Alexandra who nursed her children herself
rather than farm out the task to wet-nurses or the bottle.

Methinks the affection shown towards their children, was a manifest of
the true love and affection Nicholas and Alexandra felt towards each
other. Their marriage was a love match, that endured up until the moment
of their deaths. The contents of their luggage gave testimony of the
close bond between the two.

Would be rather wonderful if someone did a nice book or something
regarding imperial/royal parenting styles and how, or if it shaped
history.

By all accounts Queen Victoria rather enjoyed the other things which
come with marriage, it was the confinements that got her down, and she
certainly couldn't be accused of "mothering' her children. Though her
attitude did soften later towards her grand-children. OTHO Princess may
by all accounts was not keen on confinements, nor the acts which brought
her there, nor parenting. Contemporaries describe HM as "incapable" of
hugging or showing warmth. I rather like the portrayal by Miranda
Richardson of HM in "The Lost Prince", which showed a woman who
obviously cared for her children, but they were not the same realm as
her "collecting". *LOL*

Queen Alexandra, like many wives/mothers whose husbands often took their
pleasures elsewhere, turned to her children it seems for affection.


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