Sure they might have been sticklers for following the rules, but from being courted to dressing up for dinner, some Victorian ...

It was done for an old project where I was inspired by fairytales and the Victorian/British trend ... scottish boy who falls in love with an upper class English beauty when he travels to England ...

If you were born into the Middle or Upper classes in the Victorian era, you would usually have been brought up by nurses and governesses. Parents didn't always have much contact with their children.