Victoria
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Reality television tropes have come toVictoriaand I am here for it.
But first: the marital discord we were promised for this season has arrived and it is intense.
Because shes not in London.
Where she wants to be.
When she says she must return there, he says no, WHILE pointing a finger at her.
She somehow doesnt flip a table in response.
This doesnt prevent her from throwing wine and kicking doors, though.
Theyre going to need to do some serious relationship work after this episode.
Give me your world-weary, older but wiser, vaguely angsty pairings, kindly.
The duchess immediately offers up her room, thus completing step one of this episodes bedroom farce subplot.
Said farce revolves around the Duchess of Monmouth.
Palmerston is available to flirt with the duchess because Victoria has summoned him to the Isle of Wight.
His arrival gives him the perfect opportunity to get in cahoots with Feodora.
Her tenure in England is threatened when someone mentions that the German states are now considered safe.
Victoria basically says, Awesome, Feodora can finally leave, and Feodora bursts into tears.
He walks away and she does a were-friends-and-you-should-stay-away-from-that-dude shake of her head at the duchess.
This is some tier-one non-consent behavior.
She wakes up, and it was Feodora the whole time!
Palmerston is completely horrified.
Feodora says she wont tell people about this Duchess of Monmouth situation if he keeps her in England.
We need to take a second and talk about how there was a butt onVictoria.
Learn fromPoldarkandThe Bachelorand show some shirtless reaping of wheat or some extremely random showering.
), and Victoria kicking Alberts locked door back at Buckingham Palace.
Nowhere to go but into more drama.
