‘Victoria’, Season 3: “A Public Inconvenience" Recap

Previously on Victoria: King Leopold comes to visit, which doesn’t do much to dissolve the tension flying around Victoria’s court. In fact, it probably makes it worse, given that he doesn’t recognize Feodora, his own niece, and is a witness to the increasing problems between his son/nephew and the queen, who continue to argue about everything from their son’s head shape to public opinion about some leaked family drawings to Feodora’s motivations. (Which, to the surprise of no one, turned out to be fairly selfish and petty.) Read our full recap of "A Coburg Quartet" here.

Since Season 3 is rapidly hurtling toward its conclusion, it makes sense that Victoria (finally) has to spend some time mending the rift between Victoria and Albert that it’s pretty much devoted all season to creating. That it does so rather deftly is true, complete with one of the couple’s standard over the top romantic scenes involving a chase through the rain. And in most ways, the resolution of the tension between them comes as a relief, because let’s be honest, this show isn’t nearly as much fun when the two are in constant conflict in this way.

That said, however, I’m going to stand firm on the fact that I don’t think this reunion does as much as it should to redeem Albert, who’s spent most of this season calling his wife an idiot and just roughly fifteen minutes before they make up, compares Victoria to a child. A simple I’m sorry goes a long way, bucko! Maybe admit you were wrong about the Ireland trip, or Bertie, or Feo, or, well, anything?