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Lucy Worsley on young Victoria becoming Queen

Historian and presenter Lucy Worsley has studied Queen Victoria's diaries looking for the real woman. After enduring a childhood under the Kensington System, a repressive system of rules devised by her mother, and facing an arranged marriage to her German cousin Albert, Victoria became Queen against the odds.

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