- I think Victoria and Albert, having very different minds and temperaments, personalities.
Albert being very logical, Victoria being very temperamental and emotionally led.
- They're quite a fascinating combination in many ways.
There's a volatility in both of them.
- She throws a lot of things.
Throughout her diaries, she's the one that will lose her head and lose her temper and say the worst thing in the world, even if she doesn't mean it, or throw something, like a child in many, many ways.
(glass shattering) And immediately regret it and be the one who's kind of shamed and then has to say sorry.
Whereas, Albert is a lot more in control.
- When did you start wanting the monarchy to be nothing more than entertainment?
If Albert is the creature that he seems to be in our world, which is relatively rational.
So, he believes and quite teutonic about the way that he commits to that rationality.
Then, actually there's a volatility in that.
That projected pacificity carries a volatility actually in the fact that he's not truly meeting Victoria's apparent impulsiveness and irrationality in his mind.
- He'll retreat and she'll be left, you know remorseful and he will just be quite cold and lock the door and withdraw.
Albert, let me in, my darling.
Albert, please.
- So, I think both of them are to blame for this tempestuous nature, but there's an obsession with one another for all the good things and all the bad things.
There's something pure about that even if it does have it's negative sides.
- I think through it all, you know they love each other.
They love each other so deeply and passionately and it kind of adds to all of that fire even if they want to kind of strangle each other in the moment.
You know, they're kind of bound to each other.
- But I think it's really been tested.
Were we to map the course of their life, I'm not sure that they would be further apart at any other point than they are in this series.
- How can you be so cold?
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