What are we to make of ITV’s Sunday night drama, Victoria? We are three weeks in and the young Queen has married Prince Albert. Lord Melbourne is still Prime Minister (he resigned in August 1841) so we are not yet into the fifth year of the Queen’s long 63-year reign. It seems that there will be a second series, so there is a real prospect that we will follow the great Queen right up to the end of her reign. Whether the delightful Jenna Coleman will play Victoria as an eighty-year old matriarch, I am not sure.
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The TV version of Queen Victoria does justice to a truly great monarch
Victoria was by no means a model constitutional monarch, but she remains a fascinating figure in British history
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
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