Queen Victoria's Secret?
This is just snipped from a wiki article. Almost reads as if Victoria was being 'groomed' at a young age by this 'kensington system'. Grew up resenting her mother's rumored lover Conroy, banning him from her presence later and suspecting him of knocking up a lady's maid.
"At the start of her reign Victoria was popular,[42] but her reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, Lady Flora Hastings, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy.[43] Victoria believed the rumours.[44] She hated Conroy, and despised "that odious Lady Flora",[45] because she had conspired with Conroy and the Duchess of Kent in the Kensington System"
The start of 'royal grooming' I wonder? What do Anons make of this..