- Christmas 1846, a pregnant Victoria faces the festive season without her beloved Baroness Lehzen. Albert wants to transform the palace into a magical, seasonal, wonderland, but tensions mount when he invites some unwelcome guests.
- In 1846 Albert introduces the Christmas tree to court for the festivities and there are two other arrivals - Victoria's mother, invited by Albert, to his wife's displeasure, and Sarah. a little African girl, a gift from the king of Dahomey. Against Albert's advice Victoria tries to make Sarah feel less awkward at court but is forced to make a decision about her whilst a visit from the king of Prussia causes further discord. Ernest rebels against his father's plan to engage him to a wealthy German princess but has to keep a secret from the adoring duchess Harriet whilst Paget, still mourning Drummond, comes to an arrangement with the duchess of Buccleuth's niece Wilhelmina. Below stairs Penge's hope of making money from a railway scheme comes to nothing and Nancy finds an inheritance from a distant relation comes with a terrible price but finds consolation elsewhere.—don @ minifie-1
- Prince Albert is eager to propagate his Lutheran German Christmas (tree) traditions, while Mr. Penge hopes to earn a gentleman's income form speculative railroad share. Yet it's the lover of duly suspicious cook Francatelli, queen's maid Skerrett, who agrees to sell of the £10,000 pounds inheritance of her previously unknown American slaver uncle, enough to buy them a hotel. Pregnant again and missing baroness Lezhen, Victoria isn't very welcoming to her mother, uncle Leopold I of Belgium and his 'accidental guest Princess Gertrude of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whom Ernst is reluctant to marry due to his venereal disease and affair with Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland. Victoria absurdly focuses on the fate of Sarah, last survivor of a West African tribal 'royal family' exterminated by the king of Dahomey, who seeks to avoid a conflict by offering her as a slave gift to the crown trough colonial captain Forbes. The king of Hannover visits, eager to bluntly but legally reclaim as his inheritance a necklace niece Victoria clings to, absurdly in Albert's eyes.—KGF Vissers
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