The story of how an unassuming little girl rose to be the most powerful woman in the world. At her birth few believed Princess Victoria would ascend the throne, but a number of untimely deaths and the failure of her uncles to father any children meant that Victoria became heiress to the British throne. The battle between her and her mother the Duchess of Kent, however, was to become a fierce maternal struggle, as the duchess schemed to share in the power and riches that would one day be Victoria's.
The story of how an unassuming little girl grew to be Queen Victoria, one of the most powerful women in the world, amid battles with her scheming mother, the Duchess of Kent.
Is the popular image of an austere Queen Victoria fair?<link rel="canonical" href="http://www-dev.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria" /> The Timewatch team. Timewatch is the world's longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC's flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.<br />First published on Fri, 04 Jan 2013 as <a href="http://www-dev.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria">OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Young Victoria</a>. To find out more visit The Open University's <a href="http://www-dev.open.edu/openlearn/ole-home-page">Openlearn</a> website. Creative-Commons 2013
Is the popular image of an austere Queen Victoria fair?<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria" /> The Timewatch team. Timewatch is the world's longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC's flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.<br />First published on Fri, 04 Jan 2013 as <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria">OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Young Victoria</a>. To find out more visit The Open University's <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ole-home-page">Openlearn</a> website. Creative-Commons 2013
Is the popular image of an austere Queen Victoria fair?<link rel="canonical" href="http://www-dev.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria" /> The Timewatch team. Timewatch is the world's longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC's flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.<br />First published on Fri, 04 Jan 2013 as <a href="http://www-dev.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria">OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Young Victoria</a>. To find out more visit The Open University's <a href="http://www-dev.open.edu/openlearn/ole-home-page">Openlearn</a> website. Creative-Commons 2013
Is the popular image of an austere Queen Victoria fair?<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria" /> The Timewatch team. Timewatch is the world's longest-running history series, having started in 1981, and is the BBC's flagship history series. Here, members of the production team share the highs, and lows, during the production process as they make some of the next series of programmes.<br />First published on Fri, 04 Jan 2013 as <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-timewatch-young-victoria">OU on the BBC: Timewatch - Young Victoria</a>. To find out more visit The Open University's <a href="http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ole-home-page">Openlearn</a> website. Creative-Commons 2013
