"VICTORIA" Season Three (2019) Episode Ranking
Below is my ranking of the Season Three episodes of the ITV series called "VICTORIA". Created by Daisy Goodwin, the series stars Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria:
"VICTORIA" SEASON THREE (2019) EPISODE RANKING
1. (3.04) "Foreign Bodies" - An outbreak of cholera plagues London, while Prince Albert is offered the seat of Chancellor at Cambridge University.
2. (3.08) "The White Elephant" - The Royal Family, along with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, attend the Great Exhibition and anticipate the public's reaction to it. Victoria steps in to deal with the friction between her lady-in-waiting Sophie, Duchess of Monmouth and the latter's abusive husband, the Duke.
3. (3.02) "London Bridge Is Falling Down" - Victoria must decide whether to support the government's decision to fight the Chartist protesters with force, or allow them to present their petition.
4. (3.05) "A Show of Unity" - After an assassination attempt on Victoria, the Royal household visits Ireland where intrigue, conflict, and romance all blossom during a stay at the estate of Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston. Meanwhile, the Queen's half-sister, Princess Feodora of Leiningen is left to her own devices in the Palace.
5. (3.01) "Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown" - While the Revolutions of 1848 spread across the European continent, a deposed King Louis Philippe and Princess Feodora seek political asylum in Britain. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Lord John Russell's government view the growing Chartist labor movement as a threat.
6. (3.06) "A Coburg Quartet" - While Feodora plans a costume ball at Buckingham Palace in honor of the christening for Victoria and Albert's seventh child, Prince Arthur; Victoria discovers that some private drawings by herself and Albert have been copied and printed by the press. Meanwhile, Sophie begins an affair with Palace footman, Joseph Weld.
7. (3.03) "Et in Arcadia" - At Osborne House on the Isle of Wright, Albert relishes the opportunity to instruct the family away from London. However, Victoria is desperate to get back to the Palace and the business of politics when she learns that Lord Palmerston is hosting is hosting Lajos Kossuth, the Hungarian democrat and leader of its constitutionals.
8. (3.07) "A Public Inconvenience" - In order to save her marriage, Victoria steps up to support Albert's ambitious project for a great exhibition to celebrate industrial technology, which is unpopular with the public. She also plots to diminish Feodora's influence on him by inviting Feodora's daughter, Princess Adelheid, to England as a friendly overture. Meanwhile, Lord Palmerston becomes unpopular for gunboat diplomacy response to the mistreatment of Don Pacifico in Greece.