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Did Queen Victoria find love again and become more powerful than ever?


Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams explore the extraordinary second act of Victoria’s reign: a story of grief, scandal, royal gossip and an unlikely new man in the Queen’s life.


After the death of her beloved Prince Albert, the 42-year-old Victoria retreats into mourning and...


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A passionate marriage. Nine children. Assassination attempts, and the monarchy is threatened with a scandal.


In the second part of our deep dive into Queen Victoria, Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams explore Victoria as wife, mother, monarch and increasingly formidable stateswoman.


Her marriage to Prince Albert begins as an intense love affair...


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Queen Victoria would give her name to an age, but she was never really supposed to be Queen at all.


Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams go back to the chaotic royal family of George III and the unexpected death that triggered a desperate race to produce an heir, a contest that eventually produced the baby Alexandrina Victoria.


Her childhood at K...


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An unusual Royal connection to the Nuremberg Trials that prosecuted members of the Nazi leadership.


Eighty years after the trials, we know the names of the Nazi leaders in the dock and the MEN who prosecuted them. But what about the extraordinary women who helped bring them to justice?


Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams are joined by Natalie Li...


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Welcome to the dastardly world of Victorian medicine.


What connects Queen Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, a gruesome Victorian merman and a surgeon who could diagnose a patient with a single glance?


Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams are joined by medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris, author of Sleuth Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, ...


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