Page 22 - issue22.03.2019

Royal Air Force News Friday, March 22, 2019 R'n'R 3
R'n'R
New
series
TV
Victoria Queen struggles for power

ITV

NE OF ITV’s most
successful dramas, Victoria REGAL: Jenna Coleman and Tom
Oreturns for a third series this Hughes return as Victoria and Albert
month. with, below, Laurence Fox as Palmerston,
The new series sees Jenna John Sessions as PM Lord Russell,
Peter Bowles as the Duke of Edinburgh
Coleman (Doctor Who) reprise her and Lily Travers as Duchess Sophie of
role as the young Queen, alongside Monmouth. PHOTOS:KUDOS/ITV
Tom Hughes as Prince Albert.
Joining the main cast Laurence
Fox (Lewis) plays charismatic and
wayward Foreign Secretary Lord
Palmerston with John Sessions (The
Loch) starring as Prime Minister
Lord John Russell, Peter Bowles (To
The Manor Born) as The Duke of
Edinburgh, Lily Travers (Kingsman)
as the Duchess of Monmouth and
Kate Fleetwood (Harlots) taking the
role of Victoria’s mysterious sister
Feodora who makes an unexpected
return into the Queen’s life.
Starting in 1848, the third
instalment of the lavish drama
depicts a turbulent and uncertain
time for both Europe and the
monarchy. With revolutions on
the continent and the Chartist
movement reaching its peak in
London, Victoria is under pressure
from the government to leave
London for her own safety.
he show’s creator Daisy
said:
Goodwin
Goodwin said:
“Victoria
T “Victoria and
and
Albert are the most
Albert are the most
famous couple of the
famous couple of the
nineteenth century,
but underneath the
united façade, their
relationship is at
breaking point
and it is a struggle
for mastery that
neither side can of of Feodora, Lord Palmerston, who shows no
Feodora,
Victoria’s
older
win. Victoria’s older respect for Victoria and Albert’s
“Victoria faces h a lf-si s t er fellow sovereigns in Europe and h a lf-si s t er
whose
feelings
conflict on every
conflict on every whose feelings seems to have a Teflon-coated
front. Pregnant at the
front. Pregnant at the for her sibling are popularity with the British public.for her sibling are
complicated to say the
beginning of the series
beginning of the series complicated to say the “He is equally unpopular with
with her sixth child, she and
with her sixth child, she and least. the Prime Minister, who is forced
least.
Albert are having problems with
Albert are having problems with “Victoria has everything – to have him in his cabinet because “Victoria has everything –
Bertie, the Prince of Wales, who, position, wealth, a happy marriage – he is so popular in the party – a
unlike his older sister Vicky, shows that Feodora does not, and Feodora situation not unknown today.
no aptitude for learning and is know who she holds responsible for She added: “As I was writing
wilfully disobedient. this state of affairs. Series 3 I was continually stuck
“The couple’s difficulties “To add to the tension there is by the parallels between the her relationship with her people hemp. It was absolutely freezing
are compounded by the arrival a troublesome Foreign Secretary, nineteenth century and our own. and what that truly means to her. and unfortunately, we had to film
Populist movements at home “The core difference between this twice because the weather was
and abroad: womanising, foreign Victoria and Albert is that Albert is so awful.
secretaries, and national suspicions very methodical whereas Victoria is “The Queen is meant to be
of ‘foreigners’, as well as press emotionally led. taking a leisurely dip but the waves
intrusion and the mismanagement “Being loved [by her public], were making it seem treacherous.”
of public health. more than she would like
“There were days when I to admit, is incredibly oleman explained why she
found it difficult to remember important to her.” considers Victoria such an
which century I was in.” One of the actor's C exciting and enjoyable role
biggest challenges to return to.
oleman said: “In filming the new She said: “I love her lack of filter,
the new series series was having her frankness and honesty. I love
C Victoria is faced to swim in her the fact that if she likes someone she
with the question of pyjamas. is incredibly loyal and if she doesn’t
whether or not her role She said: she will let that person know.
is disposable because the “In one scene “They used to write about her
King of France turns up Victoria takes a having a ‘combustible; which I love.
on her doorstep in rags, dip in the water Victoria didn’t have to answer to
having been overthrown whilst wearing anybody and so could really get
and she questions her bathing suit, angry within her own house.
whether this could which is a lot “As she gets older, she becomes
happen to her. like pyjamas even less controlled so it is fun to
“That forces that are age with her.”
her to look in made
the mirror f rom ■ The third series of Victoria starts
and examine on ITV at 9pm on March 24.