1 x 52 min. / 1 x 45 min. 

Photos show her as the stolid mother of the nation, a cliché of the Victorian Age. But is this the whole truth? Was she the person propaganda has painted? Or was her private side as extraordinary as new discoveries show? Her name sums up a century of bourgeois economic progress and imperialism - the zeitgeist of the Industrial Revolution. But was she a queen for the people? This is a Victoria full of contradictions. A woman who seeks her own role while breaking the codes of the court and the conventions of her time. The secrets of a sovereign who is still revered as a 'National Treasure' of the once largest empire on earth.