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     The series about Queen Victoria 
  • A minor one in the very first episode, before the opening credits have even rolled: After Lehzen tells her of her uncle's death, Victoria immediately got up, went down the stairs (without holding anyone's hand, as had been compulsory under the Kensington System), and met with the Parliament ministers who formally informed her, without even bothering to get dressed in anything more than her shift.
  • Lord Melbourne talking the Tories into keeping him as PM to keep Conroy and Cumberland from forming a regency.
  • The 2-2-0 Planet. Prince Albert and Sir Robert Peel form a Bromance over it. And even Victoria eventually wants a ride!
  • Sir Robert Peel getting the other Tories to agree to name Albert regent for his child in case Victoria dies in childbirth. Why? Because Robert Mother-courting Peel says so! Yeah!
  • After providing an heir to the throne, Victoria utters, "Did you really think I'd let Cumberland be King?". He can't get it now.
  • Prince Albert's enthusiasm for public sanitation makes the installation of flush toilets in the Downstairs part of the Palace into one.
  • When Queen Victoria gets lost in the Scottish highlands, the Atholl Highlanders manage to find her the very next morning.
  • Lord Palmerston has several Awesome moments across season 3:
    • After being introduced as a shady-looking Whig, his actual Establishing Character Moment as The Social Expert is to deter a mob of angry Chartists out of attacking the Duchess of Monmouth both by his mere presence and by a few polite words.
    • After receiving a telegram from Queen Victoria on the Isle of Wight, Palmerston and the Prime Minister promptly head for Wight to meet with Victoria, who wasn't expecting them to come so fast.
    • Evacuating the population of his Irish holdings to New York... where he is so well-liked that he still gets letters from them.
    • After explaining how the leaks of Queen Victoria's intimate drawings are a massive PR win, he gives Queen Victoria successful sibling relationship advice.
    • The "Civitas Romanus Sum" speech to Parliament, in defense of his handling of the Don Pacifico Affair.
  • Abigail Turner notifies Victoria of her son's tutor abusing him, when the other servants were too afraid and Victoria herself was just growing suspicious.
  • The Great Exhibition at the end of season 3 features several:
    • Albert finally getting the exhibition that he spent several episodes planning and building, thanks to the Crystal Palace.
    • Abigail Turner gives Penge a "The Reason You Suck" Speech over his constantly looking down on Brodie and believing him to be incapable of true feelings.
    • Penge himself gives the misogynistic Duke of Monmouth a "The Reason You Suck" Speech of his own.

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