A Webster

I particularly like Season 2 love it ends with Christmas (and a German one at that!) Historically the characters are not accurate but that's what you are suppose to be looking up when waiting to watch the next episode. Victoria would approve of the movie because it is more splendid a story than the reality. If two inches shorter Jenna would be Victoria's height. I read in real life there were two ghosts that Queen Victoria took to her grave; the decision about Lady Flora and the fact she did not show more love to her own mother, since she read her diary after the death. The real Emma Portman was not the elder of the courtiers, Sutherland was the Queen's lifelong friend and an abolitionist. Harriet had 11 children and lost her husband in 1861 the same year Victoria lost her mother and husband. Her sister Feodora did go to the wedding and was close family. Ernst was 12 years Sutherland's junior and already married by the time Albert married. Although it was not said, watch carefully and you can see Victoria enter the counsel room while Albert enters separately by another way which is in keeping with the power needs to be seen to come from her. I did read thoroughly about Prince Albert and was hurt reading of his unrealistic expectations of his children. Later I was proud he accomplished much as consort. The story goes it was Victoria that saved Albert when he fell through the ice keeping her head while her ladies screamed and lost self-control. She also attended The Great Exhibition 32 times alone without her family. Season 3 shows her temperament true to form not because of childbirth but she was fiery as a person. Prince Albert brought his conflicts with him into the marriage and it is also true to form. Read the real story of Caroline Norton! I remember in the 1970s birthing instructions not to push until fully dilated but you can see Victoria pushes through the entire birthing. OPB tells the story of her wedding cake. Rather than a delicate sponge cake, it was a fruitcake, loaded with sugar, spirits, and dried fruit. Because of all the sugar and alcohol, fruitcake preserves well, and Queen Victoria's cake is still around to prove it. The bride gave guests boxed slices as a memento, which were tucked away and saved.