Private Lives of the Monarchs

Until recently, Queen Victoria has been portrayed as a strait-laced monarch.
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Until recently, Queen Victoria has been portrayed as a strait-laced monarch

Until recently, Queen Victoria has been portrayed as a strait-laced monarch.

But, as in ITV’s hit dramatisation of her reign, the opening part of this series on iconic kings and queens tells of a free-spirited young royal who loved to dance, feasted on curries and used drugs like a 1960s rock star.