Edward VII 07 Dearest Prince

[@GodConsciousness]

Queen Alexandra is easily one of my favorite Queen Consorts. She was lively, long-suffering, faithful to her husband, gracious, always optimistic, and very beautiful.

[@heatherbowlan1961]

For sure mine thoughts also ! Way to good for , good time Charlie

[@heatherbowlan1961]

He really cheated on her a lot , he liked other mens wives , and the other men most thought of it as for the king and country , the dear Queen consort was not treated very good , for such a wonderful person she was , THERES a place waiting for her in heaven , on judgement day !

[@SaxonC]

Don’t forget an insane mother in law from hell! Lol

[@jameseldridge4185]

Extremely beautiful. She had a 16 inch waist even after bearing 5 children

[@skontheroad]

"Lie down and think of England...." is attributed to him, I believe.

[@heatherbowlan1961]

mourning our wonderful Queen Elizabeth the second today , while watching a great drama of her ancestor’s , a great piece of history I thank you miss Dee . September 14 ,2022 ,long live the new King Charles .

[@sackwhacker]

Over 7 months later, we are at the doorstep of the coronation of King Charles III!

[@JimMac23]

Cheater Charlie and Strumpet CowMilla. Just like the days of Cheater Edward VII.

[@faerienightingale9100]

"IF PEOPLE CAN'T MANAGE THEIR AFFAIRS MORE SENSIBLY THEY DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE THEM!" Brilliant line ~ almost worthy of the late great Oscar Wilde!

[@davidnicholson7230]

So are you saying, that you have managed everything well and to a point were you never look back and say,, I should have been more, proactive,,, what words, you are human,, come down off the coulid,, that your on, the world is full of joy, but also full of,,,, excuse me,,,,,,,, fuck ups,,, ups,,,,,,, D

[@janerider195]

Only just found this series on KZbin, remember it first time around when I was a spring chicken, looks dated now, but I'm really enjoying it, thank you for uploading

[@stacysatterfield2154]

I felt sorry for Alix. She was too good for Bertie. Loved this series Saw it several times.

[@65wiseman]

Disraeli certainly knew how to butter up the old girl. And, its very fun to watch!

[@rm-gq1nb]

But he didn't always get away with it.

[@Levin-ey1bu]

Agreed. Brilliantly portrayed by John Gielgud...

[@allenraysmith6885]

Thank you for posting this wonderful program.

[@manmaje3596]

Absolutely fantastic performances! This is my favourite depiction of Queen Victoria, her performance is serious but makes me laugh all at the same time! its the looks she gives HA HA

[@valkyriesardo278]

Before we feel too sorry for Bertie, one of his amours actually was tossed into an asylum until the end of her days. That was done with the consent of her male relatives to help minimize the scandal of her adultery with the Prince. Women pay the higher price for carnal indiscretions. In the Victorian Age, that was price was particularly brutal.

[@joankonkle6972]

Which one?

[@robynowen2583]

Yeah it was

[@Patrick3183]

Name and shame

[@shelleypercy8372]

@@joankonkle6972 Lady Harriet Mordaunt

[@SuperTweezy5]

@@Patrick3183 Harriet Mordaunt, here's the wikipedia article of her husband's that tells of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Mordaunt,_10th_Baronet

[@aimeegreen]

Wow, Lillie Langtry played by Francesca Annis in both this 1975 series & the British series Lillie in 1978! A Legendary Diva who grows even more beautiful with age - Annis is smolderingly gorgeous, regal, sensual & elegant in David Lynch's 1984 Dune, decades after this fantastic series Edward the Seventh.

[@Patrick3183]

Not "decades", just 12 years later

[@celeste7532]

How women could do anything in those corsets......why do they make Albert jr. So articulate, so rational? He was not so according to history. There was good reason he could not be trusted because he was a bit of a blabber mouth. And he could have run charities, visited the sick, done something! He could have skirted around the queen to do some good works.

[@kimchapman453]

aimeegreen

[@rm-gq1nb]

@@celeste7532 I understand he skirted around a great deal.

[@stevebbuk]

Age finally caught up with her in the late Victoria Wood's drama on Joyce Hatto, sadly.

[@hellyh6081]

Thank you for posting such a well made and well acted series.

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

Ive watched this gem of a series a couple times now, and I've just noticed the actor at 37:26 playing a lawyer, is the same actor who plays sergeant blaketon on heartbeat. I love seeing familiar faces in these great British shows!

[@juanitarichards1074]

Jean Lapotaire was great as Queen Mary l in the film "Lady Jane: the nine days queen". It's one of my favourite movies.

[@saa82vik]

Lord Randolph a century later would find his career as a high flyer in the ministry for administrative affairs...

[@saa82vik]

calihartley2010 clearly you have no idea what my joke (yes it's a joke) is referring to. I'm talking about the actor playing the role of lord Randolph Churchill (father to Winston of course) who also plays Bernard Wholley in the unforgettable political sitcom "Yes, minister".

[@ackbarfan5556]

@@saa82vik "Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits."

[@brontewcat]

@@saa82vik even more importantly- he was on of Basil Brush’s offsiders. I was very sad when he died in early 2020

[@itallia666]

Certain American ex royals would do well to watch this! A lesson in elegance, grace, class & tradition! Our R family can trace its decent back over 1,000 yrs It will last another thousand! Swotting annoying gnats like Prince Harrys wife! These productions are marvellous! Thank you 🇬🇧👧

[@JimMac23]

You don't like Harry because he broke out of the royal meat grinder. And you don't like Meghan because of her dark complexion. I live in the USA and I know people like you.

[@stevendaniel5649]

Charles will turn 70 this year and mama is still going strong. Patience, dear Prince.

[@65wiseman]

Elizabeth was and is a wonderful Queen. I am in no hurry to see a new monarch.

[@geraldswain3259]

Charles is far to busy talking to the tree's.

[@infonut]

@@65wiseman .. Even more important, we will never see a stronger keeper of the faith perhaps for a long long time. It seems most if not all of Englands kings were disgraceful under that title.

[@ackbarfan5556]

Welp, the wait is over.

[@JimMac23]

Cheater Charlie. He takes after his ancestor Cheater Edward.

[@michaelmontagu3979]

Lovely to see the great Joyce Carey as Lady Chesterfield.

[@robingift1635]

I really like this series. I'm glad I found it. Queen V was a real pip after Albert died.

[@infonut]

She went nuts.

[@Romcom356]

I am grinning watching Victoria and Bertie drink out of Royal Doulton Old Country Roses cups and saucers. It wasn't created until 1962!

[@pygiana16]

I noticed an extra in one episode wearing modern glasses.

[@Solar-Kid]

April Taylor SSHHHHH DONT tell everyone 😂🤣

[@lilymarinovic1644]

I doubt they had the budget to search out antique crockery, spectacles and so on.

[@heatherbowlan1961]

The Queens tea set is the same set my mother collected and completed in a few year . That was MENY years ago , very expensive set , funny to see them in the movie , “ Wild Country Rose “.

[@stevencassidy6982]

I love Eddie, but my heart goes out to Alex

[@annamcuthbert3993]

You mean Bertie

[@65wiseman]

Alix was wonderful.

[@dinyarjalnawalla8181]

My Great Grandfather and his elder brother were Landlords & Owned cotton Mills in India which I disposed off about a decade ago. In our office we had a canvas painting of Queen Victoria which was considered lucky. After India got independence the canvas pairing was put in the attic but I got it placed in the main office room saying it is a piece of Art which ought to adorn the walls of an old business establishment.

[@giovannaiamele8782]

I admire very much queen Alessandra!

[@iflick7235]

Burtie had to wait until he was 59 to take the throne. Prince Charles is 67. His Mother will die on the throne. The Queen Mother lived to be over a hundred. Queen Elizabeth is in allot better shape at 90. She could certainly make a hundred.

[@Sparrowdean]

Jean Rhodes What a very nasty creature you are.

[@robingift1635]

I do agree with that. I've always said Charles will die before she does. I guess only time will tell.

[@joankonkle6972]

She is still alive and active as of March 2021, four years after the original comment above. Little did she think four years ago that today Prince Harry would be living in America and doing all he can to make money and establish the Sussex "brand." Heaven only knows what Victoria and both Albert's would have thought of that.

[@jakobfos2904]

She almost did only 4 years short

[@JimMac23]

@@joankonkle6972 Leave Harry alone. He has done nothing wrong.

[@OsskaSchindla]

I dig this show.

[@sirwelch9991]

I am an American Monarchist that enjoys this beautiful series!

[@stevebbuk]

At least there was an end eventually to the Bushes and Clintons..

[@josephpanzarella1417]

Lovely to hear some Gilbert & Sullivan in the background. While they're in India they play the finale from "Trial by Jury" and in the final scene "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore" from "HMS Pinafore".

[@joankonkle6972]

Thank you for volunteering this information, I had no idea.

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

Imagine going to India before Air Conditioning was invented and having to wear all those layers! With those outfits I'd be happy in the English weather.

[@KarenOCallaghan-u5o]

Even the Jamestown colonists dealing with Virginia summers in clothes designed for England.

[@NYCZ31]

I can get an appreciation of the effort that went into this production when at 22:22 they got together an entire cabinet of male actors for a short 30 second scene

[@Solar-Kid]

RIP DERECK FOULDS ONE BRILLIANT ACTOR this was 1975 ....

[@maskedtuxedo]

Hearing him say 'prime minster' to Disraeli brought a smile to my face

[@MerleOberon]

Great series!

[@michaelwynn8763]

thank you dee for up loading this great drama you should try the fall of eagles on you tube just as good as this

[@heatherbowlan1961]

Long live the King September 13 , 2022 .

[@lilymarinovic1644]

And to think Edward VII was possibly an ancestor (through his relationship with Alice Keppel) of Queen Camilla as well as King Charles!

[@JimMac23]

What king? Oh, you mean Cheater Charlie.

[@Romcom356]

I like watching this for the actors who were then early in their careers - Blake from Blakes 7, Derek Fowlds (Yes Minister/Prime Minister and Jim no-no-no-no from Vicar ion Dibley so far.

[@nigelnofrenze2613]

Not to mention Charles Dance

[@joankonkle6972]

@@nigelnofrenze2613 I am sorry to say I didn't recognize him.

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

Yes I just noticed that was Derek fowlds. I loved him as sergeant blaketon on heartbeat. Such a great series this is. I'm glad I found it.

[@19gregske55]

Royal Albert "Old Country Roses" (at 20:10) - the world's largest selling pattern😮!

[@barbararice6650]

There's no servants, they're invisible 👈👀

[@lilymarinovic1644]

As good servants should be!

[@boleyn123]

Thank you so much for this one. Dear Timmie (close personal friend) was wonderbar in this episode and as he was saying to dear Prince Charles (close personal friend of Tims and myself), it is not easy portraying a dead person of some repute. Cheers luv.

[@rm-gq1nb]

Ill repute.

[@JimMac23]

You mean Cheater Charlie.

[@westlock]

You would think from this episode that Alix never got to travel (aside from visits to relatives in northern Europe). In 1868-69 she went with Bertie on a six month tour that took her to Austria, the Crimea, Greece to visit her brother, and to Egypt to dine with the Khedive and inspect his harem. The Lord Randolph in this episode was Winston Churchill's father. His title was merely a courtesy to a younger son of a duke, and did not prevent him from sitting in the House of Commons. He died when Winston was 20 years old.

[@heatherbowlan1961]

I just love the history I’m reading in the comments yours is so very interesting , Thank you fr.Canada

[@lilymarinovic1644]

Alex herself in this episode refers to the trip to Egypt. So the show makes it clear that she did travel.

[@TravisLoneWolfWalsh]

Sad to know the prince and his friends enjoyed cruel hunting practices

[@lilymarinovic1644]

Some of the royals still do. I read something the other day about Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip getting in trouble in the 1950s over a hunting expedition in India.

[@JimMac23]

Sad to know he cheated repeatedly on his wife.

[@michaelmontagu3979]

​@JimMac23 Don't worry, recently discovered letters indicate that Alexandra did have an intimate relationship with Oliver Montagu.

[@SaxonC]

Poor Alix.

[@mohdsafritahir4733]

I love the Queen 🙏..

[@lynnmartin906]

Excellent casting

[@RM-eg1ed]

The British upper classes were absolutely shameful with their “discrete” adultery. What disgusting behaviour - so hypocritical. Hundred years later and nothing has changed.

[@cuthbertjolly4859]

Well they're humans like everybody else, that's why their vulgar opulence is so scandalous.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Discreet.

[@JimMac23]

Cheater Charlie for one. And Strumpet CowMilla.

[@timhazeltine3256]

Of course, adultery never occurs in the working or middles classes....​@@JimMac23

[@ronaldgiroux3307]

I always thought the new King Charles III acted like a Victorian his entire life.

[@infonut]

not if you heard his taped phone calls with Camilla

[@JimMac23]

Some of those Victorians cheated on their wives like Cheater Charlie did.

[@melissakrauss1266]

What gets me annoyed is Queen Victoria's "Well I shall think about it," whenever any of the prime ministers makes a suggestion of the Prince of Wales helping her out with ruling. That usually means "Don't hold your breath!" What a brush off!

[@JimMac23]

The old girl was wise in her judgement of her adulterous son.

[@richardlawson4317]

He killed a mother tiger who had a little cub!!! What the HELL for?? Just because he could?? You don't eat tiger meat. There are no words...

[@unrulysue6927]

Different times, but repugnant just the same. Imagine if he could hear us all giving him hell now!

[@Romcom356]

Yes, we are horrified and angered quite rightly by this. At that time, there were so many tigers/elephants/lions etc and nobody thought animals had souls - the Catholic Church still maintains animals do not have souls in the way we have. Today, thank heavens, people who do this are rightly hounded and despised. I believe in future people who do this will be prosecuted.

[@alecblunden8615]

Agreed, the standards of the day are not ours, but tigers have an uncomfortable habit of eating people. Most tiger hunts were to kill known man killers and to keep the population under control. Most of the locals preferred the hunts to being eaten - they were funny like that.

[@alecblunden8615]

@@Romcom356 "Souls"? Neither the mainstream Greeks nor the Hebrews believed there was such a thing - only the " breath of life". This concept was dreamt up by Plato as his mechanism for the human to transcend the abyss between the "real" spiritual world of his impersonal god and the "unreal" material world. It is dualism at its most irrational and stupid.

[@zarabada6125]

@@Romcom356 Many people don't accept that humans have "Souls." Of the people who do believe in "Souls," many don't accept that animals have them. I think your comment would resonate with a wider audience if you talked about animals feeling pain, showing emotional response and displaying varying levels of intelligence. Those aspects have an abundance of evidence and are harder to argue against.

[@bertodrago3646]

I like it! Good history!

[@rachelrosen5501]

i just got Adblock for the first time and my life has changed. why didn't I do this sooner?

[@patriciajoubert426]

how can I get it?

[@a.t.c.3862]

Well, well, Bernard Wooley's ancestor at No. 10!

[@heatherdewar2162]

"Cor Blimey" ............ Bertie keeping his head ............. should have been keeping his flies closed !

[@JimMac23]

Just like Cheater Charlie.

[@aaronjones2117]

Judge Roy Bean is going to have some fighting words for the Prince of Wales! ;)

[@ahmedzahir2865]

It's funny how Bertie refers to the Shah of Persia as " the Persian gentleman".

[@snowyskylar8821]

Well why not??

[@stephenszucs8439]

What kind of woman would be jealous of her own children? I wonder how accurate this is? Everything I had read about Her has talked about how great and admirable she was.

[@123pailin]

+Stephen Szucs She wasn t. She had serious issues due to her isolated upbringing (Kensington system). Then history repeated herself. All the hanoveraian kings had issues with their heirs. Victoria was disconnected from reality and lived a life of leisure in her remote castles, all this under the disguise of grief and dignified behaviour. Everything achieved during her reign was done despite her not because of her. She was an odd mixture of grandeur and pettiness. She could be enthralling and charming at times but mostly was a grumpy old bag......

[@fcolli8889]

+Stephen Szucs Monarchs have often been at odds with their heirs. Consider Alexander and Philip, Frederick of Prussia and his father, and George III and George IV. Supposedly, the crowned head sees the crown prince as looking forward to the day they become king, and maybe wanting it to come sooner rather than later.

[@stephenszucs8439]

Fred Collins That makes sense. King David had issues with Absalom trying to become King while David was still alive.

[@AnneBoleynTudor]

She was an old bitch and treated her children as secretaries. She didn't want one daughter to marry as she would lose her free secretarial skills.

[@maragathm]

@@fcolli8889 History is littered with them in every dynasty in every country, Peter the Great had his heir tortured to death, Mughals and Ottomans killed off their siblings, and if we consider this particular time period Crown Prince Rudolph shot himself as his father Franz Joseph wouldn't die soon enough and rejected his son's liberal ideas. What a simplistic view to suggest a parent wouldn't be jealous of their child, this isn't about inheriting your family's grocery store this is a kingdom and power corrupts all. By all comparisons Edward VII was a decent son considering how neurotic his mother was.

[@richardlawson4317]

Killing beautiful tigers just because they COULD???? NO!!! NO!!! NO!!!

[@Solar-Kid]

Richard Lawson this was VICTORIAN ENGLAND they owned countries and did as they pleased !!

[@JimMac23]

@@Solar-Kid That didn't make it right.

[@marieayala7871]

I am not British, but an American and I quite disagree. A Democracy is nothing to be proud of. But I love this series, I adore Annette Crosbie and have fallen in love with Timothy West. I normally prefer those like Elizabeth R, with Glenda Jackson, The shadow of the Tower with I believe John Maxwell. The English really know how to put these types of productions on. Us American's could really learn something from the British.

[@virginagobetz4756]

Lennice Ayala Many brave men have given their limbs,eyes,and very lives for the sake of our American democracy for over two hundred years. I felt offended by your comment on their behalf.

[@marieayala7871]

I am proud to be an American, and have had a father and two brothers who served our country. But the way things are today in our great nation is nothing to be proud of. People writing hateful things and posting such things as our former first lady, Michelle Obama being actually a man. Leaves a lot not to be proud of. I know we have the freedom of speech, but some take undue advantage of such rights. And with children killing, cops killing innocent people, other people threatening the lives of another because of the color of the skin or how they worship God. That I am not proud of at all. In fact there are times when I heard of these horrids happening that I am ashamed at what our nation has become. And I am sure our founding fathers are turning in their graves.

[@celeste7532]

So, go live somewhere else. I am an American and proud of it. This was the First Nation to establish freedoms of speech, religion and elect a president . Other countries like Britain claim their kings and queens are appointed by God. That they have a Divine right to rule.

[@Timrath]

"The English really know how to put these types of productions on." They used to, decades ago. This series was made in the 1970s. All worthwhile British productions are from the 70s and 80s. Nowadays they only produce garbage.

[@borleyboo5613]

Celestial View They are and they do.

[@Grenadier_]

does anyone out there know the name of the music being played starting at 2:01 ?

[@timw2498]

This series was entertaining, but completely devoid of the truth.

[@imrank340]

While Prince Edward visited India, there he shot almost 62 Tigers, and usual NO white woman to philander.

[@rodrigoalejandrocisternasm4665]

Hola amigos, estoy buscando esta serie en español, donde la puedo descargar o ver online?

[@mallorieevans8463]

Rodrigo Alejandro Cisternas Meléndez no hay, desafortunadamente.

[@heatherbowlan1961]

Google the name of this drama in your language , you may have a few in your language , good luck fr.Canada

[@heatherbowlan1961]

Also you may find a way a way to get captions in your language , check you settings .

[@cd3694]

So all of a sudden Alix’s sister Dagmar speaks with an accent? In the earlier episodes she spoke like an English school girl

[@jameseldridge4185]

The Devine Lilley

[@mikeottawa8158]

wth-out a doubt FrancscAnis must b one of Britain's most beautifuL womn of her gnration , Tmothy Wst , fathr of actor SamueL Wst , couLd'v bn an amazng Martn Luthr and or Thomas CromwL and or Hnry VIII Tudor , he's one of hs gnration's bst actors , HLn Ryan has tha face of Lizabth I Tudor , aLso an amazng actrs , Anet Crosbie Looks nothing Like Queen Vctoria , but she naiLs tha roL , she's a pro

[@orlaghcassidy3404]

"I know the Irish, they are pulling the wool over your eyes, they restocking their pig styes at your expense'. Such self Entitlement. We were starving to death having to pay the British Aristocracy for our own land so she could parade around I'm beautiful gowns. Thankfully those days are gone. Great Series though.

[@JimMac23]

Ireland got trashed by the Brits for hundreds of years. Now the Brits are paying for that.

[@adrianlarkins7259]

The old attitude towards wild animals, makes me cringe. See 29.15

[@clarkindee]

I always thought Minne (Empress Marie of Russia) was much prettier --- and very vivacious. Also Alexander of Russia was supposed to be a smart, domineering guy -- not like this actor at all.

[@jasonmack2569]

clarkindee, I agree that the actor chosen to play Alexander does come off as a gentle giant but that could be because he is always shown with Minne. It is my understanding that while at first Alexander was opposed to marring Dagmar he did however grow to love her very much. In the end the charming Danish princess had the domineering 6'3" Czar wrapped around her little finger.

[@VolumedMusicMan]

clarkindee funny you mention that, they portrayed Kaiser’s wife Donna as an airhead who only says “Ya Ya”! Yes Alexander was a tough guy, not happy go lucky.

[@martinlagrange8821]

At the beginning its Blake's Edward 7...lol !

[@robynowen2583]

He treated Alix poorly

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Was it Disraeli who dyed his hair or Alex Guiness who dyed HIS hair? The jet black look seems ridiculous on a man his age.

[@annebremer8011]

Disraeli dyed his hair

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@annebremer8011 😀Thanks!

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Think you will.find the actor is John Gielgud not Alec Guinness

[@ΚοινωνικόςΟρθολογιστής]

@@pedanticradiator1491 I think Alec Guinness also portrayed Disraeli but in another movie.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

@@ΚοινωνικόςΟρθολογιστής yes in a 1950 film called The Mudlark

[@r.m.nelson2752]

I see why he had a lot of women ..the Queen didn't give him a responsbitly that he could've been proud of.......as a MAN....I get it

[@JimMac23]

That had nothing to do with it. He was an old lecher who enjoyed cheating on his wife. He was a creep.

[@ghassanslailati989]

What about his latest squeeze from Jersey?? Big beautiful eyes !! And Bertie will do more later than just squeeze her hand !! King Edward , you just wanted to screw EM all !!

[@infonut]

Your attempt at humor is without wit and juvenile.

[@JimMac23]

He cheated on his wife constantly.

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

Annette is much better looking than Victoria ever was. Most actresses are good looking, difficult casting problem.

[@beyzaakca409]

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[@giovannaiamele8782]

It was not right she did not go to India if she was so eager to go there!

[@infonut]

Those trips were nothing more than bordello rating every Hamlet they would stumble in to.

[@huwwilson650]

I would have told her bog off and would have gone to India whatever happened. If she didn't like it.... tough!

[@joankonkle6972]

That is not how things work today on state visits, I am sure, and it certainly wouldn't have worked back then either.

[@christianpatriot7439]

When does Camilla's great-grand-ma-ma show up?

[@Solar-Kid]

Alice KEPPLE comes in later on not now ....Camillas and Diana’s too actually she was after all a Spencer -Churchill

[@glen7318]

@@Solar-Kid Who was a Spencer Churchill?

[@Solar-Kid]

@@glen7318 kepples daughter married into Spencer- Churchill family so Diana and Camilla are linked through marriage

[@deedragongirl]

Bertie would later destroy of John Brown's statue!

[@65wiseman]

25:30

[@outlawJosieFox]

Are all men narcissistic then? Or what?

[@65wiseman]

32:30

[@JimMac23]

I don't care to watch anything about the old lecher.

[@barrieholditchable]

This is why the Monarchy should have been ended. And before you say anything; I am British:

[@Romcom356]

Sorry, I'd far rather have a monarchy, who bring in more money than they cost us, than an elected president who has a political agenda and changes every few years.

[@quick46]

@calihartley2010 what do you want to know that for you stinking pervert?

[@quick46]

@calihartley2010 You related the question to him being a Brit, no mention of the sexual pleasure, you clearly think Uk is full of people with bits of dick missing

[@JimMac23]

​@@Romcom356 But you have a prime minister who has a political agenda and is changed every few years. And the prime minister holds the power in England. The king is just an adulterous alcoholic figurehead.

[@loggats]

Not a very sympathetic portrayal of Edward.

[@mikelheron20]

More sympathetic than he deserves.

[@Patrick3183]

mikelheron20 wtf?

[@TokyoSpike]

Seems very fair, actually, portraying both his good points and his bad ones.

[@jasonaw2]

I think of all the people portrayed in this show, Victoria is very hard to like. She has some good moments but they are overshadowed. I also found Albert very difficult to stand.

[@JonathonWoodgate]

Not very sympathetic of HM Queen Victoria either...

[@65wiseman]

38:55