Plot
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.
Main cast
Jenna Coleman
Queen Victoria
Rufus Sewell
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Tom Hughes
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Catherine Fleming
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
David Oakes
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Eve Myles
Jenkins
Paul Rhys
Sir John Conroy
Peter Firth
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
Nichola McAuliffe
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Alice Orr-Ewing
Lady Flora Hastings
Margaret Clunie
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Anna Wilson-Jones
Lady Emma Portman
