Queen Victoria, Prince Albert's Love Story Not 'Idyllic'; Husband 'Domineering, Abusively Cruel'

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's romantic relationship is far from perfect.

An explosive new biography of Lucy Worsley OBE, a British historian, revealed that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's relationship as shown on PBS' "Victoria" by Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes is romanticized and "not historically accurate." Prince Albert was reportedly a "domineering consort" and even encouraged the Queen to be dependent on him.

"Victoria and Albert’s marriage is often portrayed as an idyllic love story, but in reality, she lived in the shadow of his domineering personality," Worsley wrote on Daily Mail. "He encouraged her to believe that she was weak, inadequate and unable to cope without him."

Queen Victoria wanted to please her husband, so she abdicated most of her responsibilities to him. Prince Albert reportedly told a friend that "he was only the husband and not the master in the house." However, he got the opportunity, when Queen Victoria got pregnant.

Initially, she expressed "the greatest horror of having children, and would rather have none." But Prince Albert insisted that they have more because "he could see that having babies occupied his wife, weighed her down, and allowed him to assume more of her responsibilities."

Prince Albert could also be "bitter, devastating and unfair." However, Queen Victoria had always excused her husband.

"My chief and great anxiety is – peace in the House… God only knows how I love him," Queen Victoria said. "His position is difficult, heaven knows, and we must do everything to make it easier."

In addition, Prince Albert also infantilized the former royal. Prior to their marriage, he reportedly addressed Queen Victoria as "Beloved Victoria." However, afterward, he addressed her as "Dear Child" or "Dear Good, Little One."

When Prince Albert and Queen Victoria's son, Bertie, joined the army, a new reached the couple that a prostitute was smuggled into his bed. Prince Albert wrote him a long, emotional letter and visited him. However, he got sick after returning to Windsor and died after three weeks.

Prince Albert died due to typhoid or Crohn's disease, but Queen Victoria blamed Bertie. In fact, she could not bear to have her son near him and wrote: "I never can or shall look at him [Bertie] without a shudder." For the next 40 years of her life, Queen Victoria wore black and only appeared in public rarely, BBC reported.