Cette saga historique retrace la vie et le règne de l'une des monarques les plus emblématiques de Grande-Bretagne. Des ses premiers jours sur le trône à l'ère longue et influente qui a défini une époque, cette série explore les défis personnels et politiques auxquels elle a été confrontée. Plongez dans la politique de cour complexe, les événements dramatiques et les relations personnelles qui ont façonné un empire et laissé une marque indélébile dans l'histoire. Explorez les triomphes et les épreuves d'une souveraine devenue le symbole de son temps.
The young Princess Victoria, strictly confined within the boundaries of Kensington Palace, is being moulded for her awesome future as Queen of England. her mother's sinister friend, Sir John Conroy, makes her uneasy .
On the morning of 20th June 1837, an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England. the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen's hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother's close friend.
The young Queen, as well has having to endure her constant pregnancies, is in perpetual revolt against any encroachment on her position - and Albert is doing just that. Despite attempts on her life and crises like the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, her family - Albert and their nine children - is her prime concern.
Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous years. The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the Prince of Wales, forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.