ORF-E
English
1 x 52 min / 1 x 45 min
Worldwide except for Germany and France

Photos show her as the stolid mother of the nation, a cliché of the Victorian Age. But is this the whole truth? Or was her private side as extraordinary as new discoveries show? Her name sums up a century of bourgeois economic progress and imperialism – the zeitgeist of the Industrial Revolution. But was she a queen for the people? Did she alleviate the hunger and misery of the working classes? New documents show that this queen had a darker side. The film looks behind the clichés and court propaganda to reveal who Victoria really was: a strongwilled and passionate woman, an intrepid monarch who fought for Britain’s supremacy against the emerging political forces of the 19th Century.