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Victoria Series 2 - Episode 1
A Soldier's Daughter Queen Victoria is restless.
She’s just had a baby but she’s being treated as if she’s an invalid, pushed around
Buckingham Palace in a wheelchair, cocooned in blankets.
But Victoria is a modern woman and there are matters of state to attend to, as Daisy Goodwin’s
hit drama returns.
Victoria is as gloriously sumptuous to look at as it was the first time and the leading
actors – Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes - are so pretty as the golden couple.
There’s trouble in paradise, though.
Victoria feels sidelined by the men in her life, including her husband and her Prime
Minster, Sir Robert Peel, and there’s a war on in Afghanistan where thousands of British
troops are in peril.
But no one will tell Victoria what’s really going on because of some misguided idea that
she needs protecting.
Only the Duke of Wellington will give it to her straight.
SUMMARY
The second series of the drama about the early years of Queen Victoria's reign begins after
the birth of her first child.
She resumes her royal duties sooner than expected, and quickly becomes convinced that her husband
and the prime minister are concealing troubling news about the conflict in Afghanistan, and
turns to the Duke of Wellington for answers.
Victoria also faces problems at home, as Albert's family descend on the palace for the christening
with plans for the future.
Diana Rigg joins the cast as the queen's new confidante, the formidable Duchess of Buccleuch.