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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.