Frustrating relatives continue to frustrate this week in the wonderful world of Victoria, coupled with the usual condescending attitudes of all and sundry, and added political nonsense. Oh, how it makes one grateful just to have met a friend of a friend with a kind smile and married them with no interference from anyone at … >

I kind of wish the writers of Victoria weren’t so keen to remind us at every turn that the queen and the insufferable Albert (Tom Hughes) are cousins. We get it; they didn’t think it was weird back then. But it’s creepy. So creepy. Historical fact be damned, Vic, don’t marry that dude! He’s your … >

I feel for the young Victoria, for I, too, am short.  It really is something how much condescension one must endure simply for being a woman of non-statuesque proportions. I’m waiting for her to respond to someone like Uncle Leopold with a stern-voiced “with all due respect, sir, need I remind you who’s queen?” and … >

I don’t envy our hero in this second episode of ITV’s Victoria, surrounded by unpleasant losers who all want her job, and who think they can exploit her because she’s wee. But if history is anything to go by, she’ll show them. A very exciting development, however, is the installation of gas in the palace – … >

ITV’s gorgeous new series, Victoria, begins when a young woman (Jenna Coleman – and it did take me a few minutes to adjust to the fact that her eyes aren’t normally that colour) wakes up to find herself queen, and does so with the grace and strength one would expect. The moment, it would seem, … >