- The honeymoon period is over and it's now motherhood and balancing marriage, work, job, baby.
What's really interesting about the series and especially the early years of their marriage is Victoria is still trying to keep Albert at bay, as it were.
She arrives back after being in confinement for a month.
And arrives back to see Albert in her place with her privy council taking office, I suppose.
And as you can imagine, it doesn't go down very well for Victoria.
- [Albert] I think you are tired.
I think your mother was right you should have rested for longer.
- I am not tired Albert, I am angry.
- The main thing for Albert is getting to know himself like any other young twenties man.
Find his identity with his new wife.
Find his identity in this new land, and find space to express himself within the duty that comes with this new role that he's found himself in.
- Albert is off at his best full of big, grand ideas and I think there's probably a bit of jealousy and it brings out quite a bit of insecurity in Victoria.
You have no right to decide what I should or should not know.
- I saw no reason to upset you without effects Victoria.
- I am the sovereign of this country, Albert.
It is not your decision to make.
And as soon as she's back to work she becomes pregnant again.
And something that I've never seen much on screen before is a woman who falls completely in love with her husband but falls pregnant and doesn't want to be.
All babies look like frogs to me.
- I think it's easy to forget how young these two people are.
You know, and I think that's really important thing, because...early twenties, with a newborn baby and when I think back to when I was in my early twenties, I was impulsive, and just slightly volatile at times.
And idealistic and strident and driven.
- So I think it takes time I suppose for her to allow herself to give up some of her role to Albert.
And I think the more and more pregnancies that she goes through and the more and more children she has, she's more able to do that.
It's an interesting power play within their marriage.
