About this season
Drama documentary with Prunella Scales. Scales researches the life of Queen Victoria and interviews historians to help her with her portrayal of Queen Victoria in her one-woman stage show "An Evening with Queen Victoria". She also portrays Queen Victoria in the historical reconstructions in this programme and reads from Queen Victoria's private diaries written late in life and unpublished until now.
Episodes (2)
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E1
1. Episode 1
Aired 27 October 2003 • 57 min
The first episode examines Queen Victoria's traumatic childhood, coronation at 18 and marriage to her first cousin Albert.
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E2
2. Episode 2
Aired 3 November 2003 • 55 min
This episode explores the queen's close bonds with John Brown and Indian servant 'the Munshi'.