Victoria

[Chickenpie9]

Is anyone else looking forward to the return of Victoria on Sunday ? I will miss Lord Melbourne as I haven't read Rufus Sewell is returning but I can hope

Love Ferd Kinglsey anyway, but loving Francatelli more and more! what a sweetie!

Serves Ernest right! erm- mercury cure? really? wonder what will happen with Harriet now.

was in sobs over the potato famine story. good on the Queen caring something lost these days

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oh, and good on the Queen to not worry about religioues (sp)differences. surprised that Albert was.

Penge is a creepy one isnt he?

Last week's episode was so boring. This week's was much better. The famine storyline was heartbreaking. Not sure Victoria was quite as fervently keen to help as she has been portrayed, though. I think they are painting a rather rosy picture of her concern for people.

Much better episode last night, glad I watched it. Amazing that the director was the same one as last week.

Pretty sure Victoria didn't care so much about the potato famine in humane terms, as the symbolism and the link to poverty and the French Revolution. They are painting a very rosy picture of her.

They might be planning a series 3 as I see they are carefully making Jenna look a teeny bit older every episode.

I thought it was good that they included sanitation. I wonder if they'll include the 1848 cholera epidemic?! And the revolutions.

Actually slim there is evidence that Victoria donated funds from her personal accounts towards the potato famine sufferers.

I think the episode may have mirrored her true feelings.

P.s did anyone else notice the new baby? When talking to Peel about the famine and holding the baby, she called the baby Alice. Alice was her third child and unless i missed something we haven’t seen a third pregnancy?

I agree with the previous poster who said they are ageing her slightly each episode. They have obviously jumped forward since the last episode so much so they haven’t been able to include another pregnancy.

I think last nights was a different style of episode and it was interesting but also sad to see the depiction of the famine . I wonder if the next few episodes will fast forward slightly ?

Grumpy, yes I know she donated a large amount of money, yes.

that doesn't change my comments I'm afraid. She must have had it in her mind about revolt. Of course I can't know 100% but you'd think with all the discontent at the time, it would be a factor.

Ahh I see your point slim, I’d not considered that angle.

Grumpy "They have obviously jumped forward since the last episode so much so they haven’t been able to include another pregnancy."

I am glad they are doing this, I can't imagine sitting through nine pregnancies as part of the TV show!

At the end of last week's episode she told Albert she was pregnant again.

sobs. Have to wait for xmas!

ASSume mercury poisoning is fatal? Thats what Ernst has hasnt he? KNEW something like that would happen.

Miss Coke is so sweet, love her.

Diana Rigg made me cry last night ''Im old but not blind '' and her advice.

Penge was nicer last night.

and YAY! chef and Skerrit are back on.

I assumed the rash was one of the symptoms of syphilis coming back.

According to Wikipedia both Ernst and his father suffered from syphilis. The treatment at the time for syphilis was mercury. Grim.

the rash is the return of the disease

I don't understand why they had to mess history up so badly.

I watch quite a lot of historical drama and I've not seen anything that changed around timings for no reason at all. Bizarre.

Ah, just the Christmas special left. I did enjoy this series once I'd got back into it. Not as much as the first series though, more romance.
Shame about Ernest
I'd say they'll do another series, get their money worth oot of the sets

Drummond's death was sad mostly because he's the best looking bloke on the show factually way off though as he was actually pushing 50 and was shot by someone who thought he was Peel, so no heroism involved.

Yay for Francatelli and Skerritt!!

YY to loving the DofB too.

Poor Baroness

so does that mean the Baroness and Ernst dont marry? s he afflicted for life? is it fatal?

agree, Drummond was one of the best looking guys on it!

apparantly there will be another series, but with a different actress playing Victoria uch older.

they HAVE to dowhen Albert dies, wont they? Bertie will be a young man when Albert got ill, so it must fast forward a few more years then.

so does that mean the Baroness and Ernst dont marry? s he afflicted for life? is it fatal? Doesn't look good does it, tis a shame. I think antibiotics can get rid of it these days but apart from the mercury treatment, I think that was his last hope.

They could just make them up to look old, not new actors surely.

I'm massively annoyed I didn't watch this when it was on bloody DH as the Drummond murder was the basis of the defence of insanity, and I could have used it at school, as I'm teaching criminal defences, even though it's not a correct portrayal of what happened, it would have been quite fun!

You've done well not to look on Wiki for Ernst's story, but the plot clearly is that he's still got the clap and so he can't marry the Baroness.

I think the programme makers said they wanted to keep making the show until Victoria was old, not that they wanted to skip entire decades, though. We're still nearly years away from Albert dying, aren't we? Is it meant to be 1841 (Lehzen gets dismissed), 1846 (Peel's Corn Law crisis), 1845 (the potato famine), or 1861 when Harriet's husband actually died!

tribpot glad it's not just me

Enjoyed this. Looking forward to Christmas special.