'Victoria' Is About To Become Your Biggest Non-Guilty Pleasure
History
According to the author interview that PBS aired right after the last episode of the season, the author is drawing heavily on Victoria's own diaries. Certainly some key details are right - the white wedding gown, the packing off of her mother's over-controlling "friend." I've gathered from other sources that Victoria was never actually recorded as having said "We are not amused" but I was quite amused by her use of the line in the show, while in bed with her husband. Having been pregnant and grumpy about it myself - without the added annoyance of a nation waiting impatiently on the outcome as though nothing else about me was important, or the reasonable terror induced by maternal mortality rates of the age - yes, Princess Charlotte did die in childbed, helped along by the incompetence of the doctor in attendance - I empathize with the attitude portrayed.