Queen Victoria Hated Being a Mother

Being a mom is hard labor, they say, and parenting is a thankless profession. An ugly baby is a really awful object, so perhaps it's not surprising that someone who was raised to never truly do work on their own would remark that. This was Queen Victoria's viewpoint on children, and it didn't exactly give her maternal instincts a warm recommendation.

The Queen, who had nine children, reportedly hated the notion of having kids and once claimed she would like to have none. She compared being pregnant to being like "a dog or a cow" and was adamantly opposed to breastfeeding. She later said that seeing her own girls conduct the behavior made her "hair stand on end" and that her daughters were "becoming into cows." She would have undoubtedly caused a commotion on Mother's Day.

Victoria essentially ignored her other children after having her second child. She once mentioned personally seeing them about every three months. Instead, their father, Prince Albert, was considerably more involved in raising them, which was unique not only for a prince but for any man at the time.

Despite the fact that it is obvious that she did care for her kids, especially as they got older, she was by no means your average mother. She was also prone to immature behavior herself, preferring to withhold any communication from her youngest daughter when she learned that she was getting married from May until November of the same year. The Queen once claimed that it wasn't that she didn't like kids; rather, she didn't like the noise they produced.

Reign: 20 June 1837 –22 January 1901
Coronation: 28 June 1838
Predecessor; William IV
Successor: Edward VII

Born: Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent24 May 1819Kensington Palace, London, England
Died: 22 January 1901 (aged 81)Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England