Description

On the day of 20th June 1837, an eighteen-year-old woman is known as from her sleep to be informed that she's Queen of England. The Victorian era has started. The young queen's first couple of years are beset with courtroom scandal and harmful news: there's the unsavoury Flora Hastings event, a supply of severe shame for the queen; the everlasting clash between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen's hate of Sir John Conroy, her mother's good friend. Then there's the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne - 'Lord Mwi - worldly cynic and regular companion to the queen, himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal.