Queen Victoria's Children
Season 1
In a 60-year family saga this new three-part series explores the reign of Victoria through her personal relationships with her husband and her nine children.
Where to Watch Season 1
3 Episodes
- A Domestic Tyrant
E2A Domestic TyrantThis episode concentrates on Victoria's relationship with her daughters. It looks at how, after Albert's death, Victoria clung to and bullied them and arranged their marriages. In response the princesses fought back, becoming independent women determined to find love and fresh purpose. From sculpture to medicine, the daughters became champions of women for a new era. - Princes Will Be Princes
E3Princes Will Be PrincesThis final episode focuses on Victoria's relationship with her sons and how, after Albert's death, they struggled to live up to his model of purity. It explores Victoria's difficult relationship with her eldest son Bertie, whom she blamed for Albert's death, believing his sexual indiscretions to have fatally weakened her husband. It also examines her relationship with her son Leopold, the physically weak but spirited haemophiliac who put up the most determined effort to break free from his mother's control. Ultimately, the idea of monarchy based on purity is put to the test as the philandering Bertie comes to the throne.
