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Victoria Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown
Sun, Jan 13, 201952 mins
While Albert takes an interest in the plights of the common people, including the loyal Chartists, to understand the 1848 revolutions sweeping Europe, Victoria is absorbed by her ever-growing family and blindly sympathizes with toppled French king Louis Philippe. Both reprimand the PM for failing to restrain foreign minister Lord Palmerston, who openly applauds the 'downfall of tyranny' while fraternizing with the working class and decide to offer asylum to the French ex-king, more warmly then they welcome Victoria's half-sister Feodora, who fled Baden. An experienced new valet joins the palace staff, seamstress Skerrett dates a Chartist and presents one to Victoria to convince her they're neither dangerous nor violent, but the police makes arrests after finding hundreds of rifles with them.
Episode 2
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Sun, Jan 20, 201952 mins
Victoria must decide whether to fight the Chartists with force, or allow them to present their petition.
Episode 3
Et in Arcadia
Sun, Jan 27, 201952 mins
Albert gets the family and retinue to move to Osbourne, the pleasure palace by his design on the Isle of Wight, but Victoria remains obsessed with London politics. Reading Lord Palmerston invited Habsburg dynasty, Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian nationalist activist banished by Austria's Habsburg dynasty, she wants to, and, when Albert refuses, she 'summons' the PM and his opinionated Foreign Minister to the Isle. They oblige and politely pretend to have understood her 'instructions,' but Victoria ends up realizing Palmerston's smart way to kill opponents to monarchy with kindness until the ridicule themselves is best. Meanwhile, Albert tires of Victoria scolding his efforts to knock some sense and learning into rebellious Bertie, calling him 'abusive,' culminating in a semi-public incident. Duchess Sophie of Monmouth saves her kind, skinny-dipping helper/lackey Joseph from firing by mean steward Pence. Francatelli hands in his resignation, morally forcing Skerrit to reluctantly tell Victoria about their marriage. Princess Feodora schemes to stay with sister Victoria in so-called exile from actually safe Germany, abusing Palmerston's own bedroom faux-pas to avoid exposure.
Episode 4
Foreign Bodies
Sun, Feb 3, 201952 mins
A cholera epidemic hits London, and Victoria seeks the help of a doctor who has been trying to find the origin of the disease. As for Albert, he is faced with the xenophobia of British academia when he visits Cambridge to become chancellor.
Episode 5
A Show of Unity
Sun, Feb 10, 201952 mins
A failed assassination attempt by an Irish subject determines the royal household to visit this part of the realm, to check its peril after the great famine. So they accept an invitation to visit -with him- Lord Palmerston's castle estate there, in fact the residence of his equally mundane wife, Emily. In between formal receptions, like a rapprochement with the most influential cardinal Ronan, Albert and Victoria sternly question the lord about the plight of his tenants, but he has all the right answers ready, and his 'libertarian' marriage, with mutual consent to entertain lovers as they're generally on different British isles. Back in Buckingham palace, Feodora enjoys the trappings of holding 'regency court', only to be discredited as she fails, unlike footman Brodie, to notice the price of the success of the unorthodox tutor Albert engaged for Bertie.
Episode 6
A Coburg Quartet
Sun, Feb 17, 201952 mins
Albert and Victoria are shocked to find the printer lucratively sold to the press some private family scene etchings, but the Pm points out there's no advisable legal recourse and Lord Palmerston that a 'common family people' image renders the dynasty human, not ridicule. Joseph warns the duchess, his discrete lover, against her husband's plan to subtly expose her as aristocratic slut by suggesting an heirloom costume. Wit Belgian king-uncle Leopold attending a grand court ball, Albert mistakes Victoria's suspicion of Feodora as another symptom of her petty arrogance, but the plotting sister's shameless greed is finally exposed.
Episode 7
A Public Inconvenience
Sun, Feb 24, 201952 mins
Lord Palmerston takes huge risks championing the case of Don Fernando, a British Jew unjustly arrested in Coburg-ruled Greece, but his gun boat diplomacy prevails. Duke of Wellington retires as commander in chief and agrees the post might be ideal for Albert. The prince consort initially refuses, concentrating his efforts on planning a world exhibition in London and the controversial, seemingly hopeless design of a temporary, fittingly modern palace in Hyde Park. Loveless Duke Charles of Monmouth has had it with adulterous wife Sophie's embarrassing disloyalty but can't touch her at court, so he pays Mr. Pence to spy on her and valet-lover Joseph, whom she neither fully trusts nor agrees to run away with. When son William visits home from 'public' boarding school, the duke has her committed to a lunatic asylum. Albert has Bertie examined by frenology quack Cole and miss-attributes Victoria's mistrust of greedy, jealous liar Feodora to her general pettiness, yet the sisters seem to reconcile welcoming princess Adelheid "Heidi".
Episode 8
The White Elephant
Sun, Mar 3, 201952 mins
The world's eyes are on the Great Exhibition, and the Royal couple. Does triumph or failure beckon?
