"Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world. Surely she must rely on her mother and her venal advisor, Sir John Conroy, or her uncle, the Duke...

The official companion to the second season of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria by award-winning creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin.More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin-the highest-rated PBS drama in twenty years, second only to Downton Abbey.But what happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did...