Victoria

I must to go to Cambridge

as I have been asked to stand

as chancellor of the university.

In my absence, I hope you will follow my advice

and employ a male tutor for Bertie.

His behavior has become... unmanageable.

For the prince.

Mm-hmm.

From the queen, sir.

Bertie's misbehavior

is simply that he does not fulfill

your very specific expectations

of how a boy should act.

Thank you.

There is no question

of you going to Cambridge today.

Have you forgotten we are receiving

the foreign ambassadors tonight?

We must present a united front.

By "united front," you mean

another opportunity for you to indulge your vanity

while I am paraded around like a show pony.

Sir.

Must I explain again

that since I was forced to run away to Osborne,

I have had to double my efforts

to show my people the same devotion

as I show my children?

What you call vanity,

I call duty.

Well, if you treat your country like a child,

how will it ever mature?

I, too, have important work, Albert,

and that is to show my people their queen is by their side.

Look what I can do with my new toy!

Your Grace.

I...

I have been meaning to thank you

for what you did for me in Osborne.

I...

Anyone would have done what I did.

We open in three days.

The place is filthy.

Look.

Look at these windows.

Once they taste my strawberry tarts,

they won't be looking out the window, Nancy.

Do you think we should change the name?

What shall we call it?

The Palace.

It was a joke!You're a chef.

You should know about timing.

Please tell His Royal Highness our correspondence is at an end.

I believe this letter is from Mrs. Skerr--

Mrs. Francatelli, ma'am.

Is that the best you can do?

Leave us.

You seem out of sorts lately, Drina.

Could you blame me?

Albert is God knows where,

and the one person who could do my hair properly

has left me to get married.

It's hopeless.

Don't worry, Drina.

Hm?

I will never desert you.

Can't you just give him some medicine, doctor?

Just last night he was on the street playing,

refusing to go to bed.

Why has the Lord saved me when my boy...

I'm very sorry to tell you that your son has cholera,

Mrs. Dolan.

We, we don't know where it comes from,

only that it acts fast.

Now, do, do you remember who he was with yesterday?

What are you talking about?

Could you tell me, where, where he had been

before he came home last night?

Do you want your son's life to mean something?

If you can help me discover the cause,

he will not die in vain.

Allow me.

William's been at school for two months now.

Perhaps I could visit him?

Are you fond of this necklace?

Remember.

Everything you are fond of

belongs to me.

Her Majesty the Queen.

Emma, I do believe the prince is smiling at the queen.

That is just for the public, I'm afraid.

Perhaps that's all marriage is.

Presenting an appropriate facade.

Your Majesty,

may I present His Excellency the Ambassador to Oudh.

Your Excellency.Your Majesty.

The king of Oudh sends his felicitations

on the birth of the Princess Louise.

And he hopes that you will accept

this gift for the princess.

The gems are said to protect the wearer from misfortune.

Your Majesty,

may I present His Excellency

the Persian Envoy.

His Excellency the Portuguese Envoy.

Prime Minister.

I wanted to tell you, I, I have been asked

to stand as chancellor at Cambridge University.

Mi dispiace, signora, un momento.

You'll be a vast improvement on the previous royal incumbent.

The duke of Gloucester had great difficulty

in keeping his mouth closed.Well, there is much to be done.

At Bonn, we studied botany, geology,

all of the natural sciences.

But at Cambridge, they study little more than the classics.

Homer and Virgil made me the man I am today.

Oh, yes, I believe you

studied at, um, "Mag-dalene" College...

...Lord Palmerston.

You might want to learn the names of the colleges

before you start telling them

what to study, sir.

"Maud-lin," sir.

Thank you.

Of course, the chancellorship

is an honorary position, sir.

It has no executive power.

And Cambridge is not a place that relishes innovation.

Even more reason to accept the post.

Ah, you must not worry about your duties here.

I will support Victoria.

I hope Cambridge is ready for you, sir.

Thank you.

Your Serene Highness,

have you heard the "Swedish Nightingale"

sing before?

I have not.

Well then, how fortunate

that you are here tonight.

I don't suppose singers of her caliber

often make it all the way over to Langenburg.

But now Europe is at peace,

I'm sure you'll be making preparations to return there.

Tell me, is your wife here?

I should so like to meet her.

She is very particular about the company she keeps.

As is the prince.

I believe he has forbidden the maids of honor

from walking the grounds unaccompanied.

In case of assignations.

Used the leftovers from the Chartists' banners.

Isn't much call for them now.

Cuffay's been transported.

Sometimes it feels like none of it ever happened.

Well, you've made them look beautiful.

I shall repay the favor one day.

It is you doing me the favor.

Not much keeping me busy since you left.

I'm troubled by opening with all of this, Charles.

You've been troubled from the moment you left the palace.

Please try to remember what you've got.

Not what you had.

Prime Minister.

Prime Minister.

Sir.Thank you.

Something the matter?

Nothing to concern you at present, ma'am.

Judging by the look on the prime minister's face,

I would beg to differ.

I've just been informed that there is

a cholera outbreak

in Soho.

We thought it was just a few isolated cases.

I assure you we're doing all we can.

We're closing all the graveyards in town,

and opening them in the country, to prevent any...

...congestion.

So your suggestion is to tidy the problem away.

Surely we should be trying to find out what is causing this.

It's a laudable aim, sir.

But as politicians, we can't waste our time

with scientific red herrings.

We need to make sure that the public are reassured.

The last thing we need,

is to have cabs filled with dead children

outside graveyards.

I don't want my guests

to hear any of this.

Perhaps Miss Lind could give us an encore?

I think the only way to get rid of this disease

is to get rid of all these foreigners.

What do you reckon, Joseph?

I'm sure you have a theory.

All we can do is protect those in need.

Why would you not want me to be in a position

where I can make a real change to this country?

I need you here, Albert.

How can you think of leaving London at a time like this?

I'm sure you believe that your presence here,

it will cure the sick.