Victoria episode 1

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anyone watching

am pretty ignorant about history so am looking forward to this

Well, last in this series . Was thinking about getting the DVD and accompanying book.

Albert's a bit of a bed hogger isn't he?

(There's a book?)

It might be because he's so tall and she's short :)
Yes there's a book, not sure on the price but the cheapest I've seen the DVD is with HMV online £14.99 free P&P.

The book £5.93 plus £2.80 P&P.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008196834/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Ahhh, just watched the last episode sniff

Is it my PMT or was anyone else welling up?

Albert so dreamy plus Ernst a heartthrob too.

Ahhhhhhh

Ahhhhhhhhhhh 😍

Apparently they're a couple in real life. I hope they've got a kingsize at least! My DH is over a foot taller than me. He's a bed hogger too

I well up on every episode. Reading all about the real life events and diary entries just makes it more so. Their time together was cut so short but at least they found each other in the first place. As Tennyson said tis better to have loved and lost than never have to loved at all.

It wasn't so much a height thing but he sleeps in the middle of the bed.

Pick a side Dreamy Albert!!

between Albert and Ernest...that's my kind of bed .

how swoonsomew was Ernest, just asking for a lock of the duchesses hair? is that bit true or dramatized?

Peter Firth was brilliant too.

took me till last episode to stop thinking Doctor Who (Jenna, Eve Myles and Tommy Knight) but they've come into their own in this drama.

wasn't interested at first in this drama but got into it over time and now gonna miss it till its baqck .

hope they repeat it on ITV encore so I can see the 1st few episodes.

Brilliant chemistry between the actors playing Ernest and Harriet. I hope they reappear in 2017. The casting people have matched the couples very well.

Couldn't care less about the chef and the maid. Boring.

Would like more of Mrs Jenkins.

Is Tommy Knight from Sarah Jane Adventures? I thought I recognised him

yes, hes from Sarah jane adventures, her son.

Id like more Mrs Jenkins too, felt sorry for Nancy though, but chef scarpered off quickly enough, couldn't have cared that much about her.

was that her sistr becoming the wet nurse? what about her own baby?

cant wait for the next series now.

I got a feeling the chef is a nasty piece of work, I didn't like the way he treated the other kitchen staff.
I was wondering about the wet nurses baby too, she was crying when she handed her baby over. She was just someone from Newport though, not her sister.

There was something g on the Victoria Twitter feed that said something about Victoria's first wet nurse having killed some of her children. I didn't really understand it and I've probably misremembered it now

Somehow I doubt that Albert would have been allowed in whilst Victoria was in labour. It's silly when they try to attribute modern behaviour to them.

Apparently Albert was there. He had madcap ideas about childbirth, all progress and what not.

Ah bless Albert! He sounds like the kind of guy I would did marry! All hairbrained schemes and earnestness

Zuleika, Prince Albert was at his children's births (along with the Home Secretary!), so they aren't being silly at all.

Fascinating article here:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/23/royal-births-protracted-painful-public

Did anyone notice what Albert called Victoria a couple of times, it sounds like leebis, one of the times was when he was fencing by the lake and Victoria asked him why he wanted an allowance, then just before they kissed he said 'and you leebis, will be my wife'. Is it something in German?
Another time was when they were talking about the muffin man and having children.

*or it could be lilibet.

Could it be liebchen? Means sweetheart in German I think (pretty much the only German I know!)

Yes, that makes sense, thanks

It was liebes. It means "dear" or "love"

Ah yes, that sounds right, thanks.

If anyone's interested ITV Encore is now playing this series again, plus on ITV Player.