![]() ![]() “But I just thought Diana was worth bending things for,” admits Goodwin. ![]() ![]() The legendary Dame Diana Rigg joins as the Duchess of Buccleuch, who was actually only in her thirties at that time. The woman responsible for television's new Victorian age talks to BHT about her research, the horrors of the Potato Famine and a few fascinating 19th-century characters, including two young souls who led the world's most powerful empire while battling their own fears and insecurities. “It's also about the problems of family life, managing to have a public and a private life and all those difficulties while you're also the monarch,” adds Goodwin. Last year revealed the woman “underneath the corset and tiara," but Victoria now features this couple-young parents handling enormous responsibilities within a very unequal power dynamic. “It is hard for an alpha male, which Albert definitely was, to be the junior partner in a relationship.” ![]() “It's honestly a more difficult, complicated marriage than perhaps people thought,” says Daisy Goodwin, the show's creator and writer. The early reign of Victoria marches on this January, only now the young Queen (Jenna Coleman) has her royal consort, Prince Albert (Tom Hughes), by her side-or possibly just behind her. ![]()
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