Which British monarchs were strict and which ones were lenient?

[Plankton5165]

I know Queen Victoria and George V were strict and Edward VII was lenient, but what about the others?

[Suburbia]

Strict in terms of what?

Style? Personality? The way they raise their children?

[CumbrianLefty]

Prince Philip had the reputation of a very "traditional" type as far as bringing up kids was concerned.

[Suburbia]

Prince Philip had the reputation of a very "traditional" type as far as bringing up kids was concerned.

Yes. He was traditional, but snobbish in the way he viewed his own daughter-in-law, Diana, especially days after her death.

He viewed Hollywood figures as beneath him, he was perplexed to why she was probably the first royal to have Hollywood/International celebrity friends and it has fallen to Harry and Meghan now.

[All Along The Watchtower]

George IV was very lenient in his dietary habits.

[All Along The Watchtower]

He viewed Hollywood figures as beneath him

Wow, based

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Prince Philip had the reputation of a very "traditional" type as far as bringing up kids was concerned.

Yes. He was traditional, but snobbish in the way he viewed his own daughter-in-law, Diana, especially days after her death.

"But"?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Prince Philip had the reputation of a very "traditional" type as far as bringing up kids was concerned.

Yes. He was traditional, but snobbish in the way he viewed his own daughter-in-law, Diana, especially days after her death.

"But"?

Yes, Prince Philip was a solid tradsnob toward Diana of Wales, not one of those pretentious New Money snobs you hear about these days, oh no.

[Suburbia]

Prince Philip had the reputation of a very "traditional" type as far as bringing up kids was concerned.

Yes. He was traditional, but snobbish in the way he viewed his own daughter-in-law, Diana, especially days after her death.

"But"?

Traditional in the way how most commoner fathers raise their children, to hunt, to fish, ride bikes. He served in the Royal Navy.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yet in the 50s it was the exact opposite dynamic, with Phillip trying to modernize and reform operations of the palace and Elizabeth the Queen Mother reacting in horror over such things. An example that I recall being that Phillip wanted to use radios like in the navy, instead of the traditional hand written note carried at as snail's pace from one side of the palace to the other via a footman.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not sure if Philip was ever exactly snobbish towards Diana, or even if it is possible for anyone (other than, maybe, a Habsburg) to be snobbish towards a member of the Spencers, one of the grandest aristocratic families in Europe.

[afleitch]

Not sure if Philip was ever exactly snobbish towards Diana, or even if it is possible for anyone (other than, maybe, a Habsburg) to be snobbish towards a member of the Spencers, one of the grandest aristocratic families in Europe.

We'll never know how the Sainted Diana was actually treated by anyone or how she treated others until all of us are long gone. It's more of a circus now that it was back when Mary of Teck was busy being a kleptomanic.

[Plankton5165]

I've been talking about parenting style.

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Phillip's early life made him far more aware, perhaps overly so, of the potential for the system to collapse than the relatively cloistered Windsor clan: this explains why he was both frustrated by the backwardness of the family in regards to public relations and the "traditional" (probably the wrong word tbh) upbringing of Charles - for him weak and self-indulgent monarchs put the institution at risk, and so the spartan treatment was necessary.