Victoria

Vive la republic!

Vive la republic!

Is Mama going to die?

If she does, you'll be king and you'll have a crown

and everybody will curtsy to you, Bertie.

Why do I have to be king?

You just do!

But you're older than me.

Yes, but you're a boy.

But Mama isn't a boy.

Don't you know anything?

It's called primogeniture, Bertie.

They only make a girl queen if they can't find anybody else.

What are you two doing out of bed?

Come along!

Get back!

Screaming won't make it come any faster.

Are we safe?

Go!

I will take care of Victoria.

Go!

Please God, don't let Mama die.

I want guards right around the perimeter of the palace.

Everywhere.

Is that understood?

Yes, Your Royal Highness.

Good.

One of them was in a comment va dire...

A swing...

A swing!

By all, that's splendid!

Don't you think, Alfred?

Mon cher, please,

come and join us.

Sir, I-I thought the king would be safer here.

Gambling? At a time like this?

Life is a game of chance,

maybe I will lose this hand as well.

Sir, the queen is asking for you.

I believe the moment has come.Thank you.

What are you doing here?

As a member of the Privy Council,

I am required to attend a royal birth,

to make sure it's the genuine article.

Then why are you playing cards with Louis Philippe?

You know the prince loathes this kind of thing.

Oh, what a courtier you've become, my dear.

Monmouth...

Albert!

The mob has dispersed.

The rioting cannot continue!

Our movement will only succeed if we have the support

of respectable people.

We must stay within the law.

Do you really think that a few signatures and pretty banners

are going to make the prime minister say,

"Come in, why don't you? Universal franchise,

what a splendid idea"?

A revolution without teeth cannot bite.

What's happened to you?

Oh, don't look at me like that, Abigail.

I want to be a free man,

one worthy of a woman like you.

Oh, hello.

I apologize, Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness,

but I couldn't keep them away a moment longer.

This one's quite pretty for an infant.

Better than the last one, anyway.

I am glad you're not dead, Mama.

Dear Mama and Papa,

we have come to welcome

our new baby sister.

Oh!

Oh!

How is my... little niece?

Oh...

Such a flower.

I wonder...

what they will call you, my kleine maädchen.

We're going to name her after someone...

Who has a very

special place in this family.

Albert's mother.

Meet Princess Louise.

Hm. Ja.

What was that?

The baby must have come.

Yet another royal mouth to feed when children are starving!

Wellington.

Lady Portman.

Duke.

Duke!

Is this really necessary?

The queen is still weak after her ordeal.

I can assure you, sir, I wouldn't be here

unless the necessity was not of the gravest.

The prime minister and Palmerston

are also on their way.

Right.

May I congratulate you, ma'am,

on behalf of your government,

and apologize for intruding at this time.

But our intelligence suggests that hundreds of thousands

of Chartists will attempt to deliver

their so-called "People's Charter"

any day now.

If this gathering were to... get out of hand.

They must be contained south of the river.

There have been riots already-- great crowds like this

I can't answer for what could happen.

But I understood the Chartists to be a peaceful movement.

Call throwing bricks through your window peaceful?

I believe that protest was directed against

the French king.

The duke wants to station troops

on the bridges.

Cavalry and artillery, ma'am.

Let them know we mean it.

It should never have come to this.

We have failed these people.

Do we have permission to mobilize the troops, ma'am?

I...

I don't think it's... necessary.

Liebes...

It is the only way

of defending Parliament and the palace, ma'am.

Perhaps you don't quite understand

what these Chartists have in mind.

Actually, Lord Palmerston, I have spoken with a Chartist.

Can you say the same?

With respect, ma'am,

one conversation doesn't make one an expert.

Please, remember you are speaking

to the queen.

Beg your pardon.

I allowed my anxiety to eclipse my good manners.

You must give the order

to mobilize the troops, ma'am.

To use soldiers to disrupt a peaceful movement

seems to me the height of folly!

I cannot, and I will not condone it,

and I will not sign the order!

Move!

Right, everyone get back!

Stand back there!

What is this?

What right do you have to come in here?

Did you know anything about the guns?

Why? Because I'm Irish?

No!OFFICER: Patrick Fitzgerald?

I'm arresting you on a charge of treason.

Let him go!Come on.

Let him go!

Believe me when I say I never expected to meet

a woman like you.

We own a hotel.

You've done it?

Without telling me.

The owner's scared stiff of the Chartists,

so he agreed to lower the price.

I wish you'd asked me first.

And what would you have said if I had?

"The queen needs me.

I can't abandon her in her hour of need."

Special license.

You know I can't be married, I'll have to resign.

You will, yes.

I want to start our real life, Nancy.

Tomorrow, 3:00, St. Bride's.

I'll be there.

Ah-ah, the queen has only agreed to see her prime minister.

Banished!

From the Garden of Eden!

Or maybe not.

Rifles?

Enough to arm a regiment.

This is not a peaceful protest.

I'm afraid

there is no choice, ma'am.

If the Chartists are going to protest,

we must put troops on the streets.

Klugscheisser.

You speak German?

French and Italian.

I like to understand who I'm dealing with.

I sometimes I have to remind myself

that you're foreign secretary.

And what is diplomacy but a balancing act...

Prime Minister?

Papa calls me his philosopher princess.

Of course, you English were the first people

to get rid of your king.

What happened to him?

They cut off his head

but with an axe.

It took a Frenchman to invent la guillotine.

What's la guillotine?

Are they going to cut off

your head, Mama?

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