New Characters

(upbeat orchestral music) - Duchess of Buccleuch, played by Dame Diana Rigg.

- Oh, Lehzen look, she's smiling at me.

- Wind, more likely.

- Victoria's new, unexpected Lady in Waiting arrives at Buckingham Palace, not quite what Victoria was expecting.

- In my day, no unmarried girl would be allowed to read novels.

- Very forthright in her opinions.

- Funny.

Acerbic.

Doesn't suffer fools.

Unapologetically unabashed.

- I feel like you're describing Victoria.

- It's a little bit alarming, isn't it?

- So, Wilhelmina Coke is the niece of the Duchess of Bucchleuch.

- Wilhelmina!

- Slightly downtrodden, always being told what to do, what to wear, how to be, how to behave.

- [Duchess] Why are you loitering?

- I was just listening to the music, Aunt.

Chopin.

- Who seems to have a most unfortunate effect upon your complexion.

- And she is slightly infatuated with Albert's brother, Prince Ernest.

- Especially when he's playing the piano.

- She's quite a pure soul, I would say, who falls in love with the wrong guy.

- And you are?

- Drummond, ma'am.

Sir Robert's private secretary.

Drummond rocks up unannounced, early on in Episode One, and tells the queen what to do.

Terrible first move.

He's an ambitious young man-- - Your majesty.

- Who will potentially be prime minister one day.

Yet to be married.

Eligible.

We won't give anything else away about Drummond, but keep an eye on Drummond.

Miss Cleary, the new member of the downstairs household.

- She's come from the same place that Skerrett has come from.

That's right, isn't it?

- Oh, the same school.

Yeah.

- Yeah, same school.

You just looked at me like I made that up.

- I thought you meant in Ireland.

- Oh, no no.

She's slightly shy, withheld, maybe perhaps a bit nervous.

There's a strength to her, that as the series goes along, comes to the fore.

- Ada Lovelace.

A lady mathematician.

- Historically, the real Ada Lovelace is quite an incredible woman.

She was one of the first people to conceive what would now be the modern-day computer.

- The music of the spheres.

- Victoria's quite alarmed at the idea of a female mathematician.

It was very unheard of.

I think she looks rather pleased with herself.

- [Melbourne] In that respect, she resembles her father.

He always looks as if every room belonged to him.

- [Jenna] Boy Jones.

- Boy Jones, it's true.

- I barely got to meet Boy Jones.

He's always hiding under some piece of furniture.

- He was always stealing things.

- He's pretty famous.

Charles Dickens was, had and interview with him.

- What, for like a job or something?

- No no no, like, as in, "Please, can I interview you?

"The famous Boy Jones.

You broke into the palace, "however many times."

- [Guards] Boy!

Get that boy!

- What is the meaning of this guttersnipe?

- [Tom] Famous man, boy.

Famous boy.

- Boy Jones.

- You know a lot about Boy Jones.

- I really like Boy Jones.