15 Apr 2018

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 You'd think that for a series with such huge production values, someone in the Victoria crew would have thought to point out that the boat on which she crosses the Channel is far too modern, looking straight out of the end of the century. Or that the primary aim of Victoria's 1843 visit to Eu was to discuss Orient business, not negotiate Montpensier's marriage. (In fact, the prince was in Algeria at the time, and only got married in 1846.) For that matter, Montpensier was never meant to marry the Queen of Spain, but her younger sister, while France and England agreed that Isabella would marry another Bourbon. Sure, it put him in a potentially powerful position if Isabella died without issue, but that did not happen, and best I can tell Louis-Philippe did not marry him behind the English's back. 

And that's in addition to what I feared would happen (no important French figures besides Louis-Philippe are fleshed out or even introduced, not even Guizot; they just didn't care, in other words). If all episodes are in the same vein, only I wouldn't notice the rest of the historical mistakes because it's not my area of interest, maybe it's better to leave that series alone. 

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