1. Kinky Lord M
4 Extra Debut. Lucy Worsley looks into Lord Melbourne, who appears in Queen Victoria's journal at 9am on the day she becomes Queen. From 2019.
Chief Curator of the Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley begins a ten part exploration of Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.
Charming, saturnine, worldly-wise and interested in sadistic sexual practices, Lord Melbourne appears in Queen Victoria's journal at 9am on the day she becomes Queen.
He will guide her through the day's ceremonies and controversies, fending off on her behalf her disliked mother and former guardian, John Conroy.
Lord M, as she called him, was soon half in love with his 18-year-old mistress, but this could be politically dangerous to the young Queen who was too stubborn and headstrong to listen to what her mother, wiser and more loving than she鈥檚 given credit for, had to say.
With historian Philip Ziegler.
Readers:
Sarah Ovens
Michael Bertenshaw
Sabine Scherek
Rhianna Warne
Producer: Mark Burman
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in May 2019.
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