So far detractors have been circling around Victoria being critical of her youth her height, her inexperience to be a monarch. Still there is the fictional relationship with Gladstone, her rock which has kept viewers satisfied.
However it is not to last, we know Albert is around the corner. Well in Germany actually. Victoria has learned fast and decided to isolate those who are an obstacle. She will dispatch Conroy to Ireland with a fancy title and an annuity which is essentially a bribe.
However there are other pompous people about like King Leopold who wants Victoria to be matched with his nephew so his influence can criss cross Europe by a grand alliance of marriage between different monarchs. Albert (Tom Hughes) is someone who met Victoria when they were children. He is not the only suitor as other aristocrats view Victoria as a catch, the certainty to rule with her a mighty empire, more then adequate compensation for her lack of height.
However how the ordinary people live is not forgotten. Albert certainly has not, he wants to see what ordinary life in England is like and whether the populist would revolt. The Chartist rising will is brutally met by Melbourne. Victoria's dresser Jenkins is from the same Welsh village as some of the Chartist who are to be executed. Victoria decides to be more lenient.
Third episode in and despite being pretty to look at, almost Mills and Boons romance, I have to regard the series as a load of old tosh far departed from the real life of Queen Victoria. This is a fictional re-imagining and future episodes will have to be assessed in that regards. Just hope the script improves.