She just had an enormous strength of character.īHT: There’s a liveliness, a youthful energy, in both the book and the TV series that kind of mirrors Victoria's. So I don't think she had Stockholm syndrome. I think quite reverse: I think she was always very happy to put herself out there. You never get the sense reading her diaries or reading about her that she's frightened. She had a very strong sense of self, Victoria. She'd just been waiting for that to happen.

She thought it was very unjust the way she'd been treated, and she knew that the moment she was Queen, everybody would have to do what she said. Where did that strength come from?ĭG: I think she had been biding her time. She actually immediately took hold of her power. She spoke to BHT about both her novel, her show and the woman who inspired them both.īHT: Knowing that, I was expecting her to be a little dominated at first, but that wasn't true at all. She goes to see Lady Flora and apologizes and then she comes out and Lord Melbourne says, ‘You weren’t in there very long, ma’am,’ and she says, ‘I was in there long enough,’ so she absolutely did.” Hearing her effortlessly quote passages from Victoria’s diaries, I’m certain she’s right-and that the creator, writer and executive producer has spent quite a bit of time studying those volumes. This is after I mention an article in the British press that claimed Victoria refused to do so in real life to dying, wronged Lady Flora. “No, she did apologize,” New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin ( The American Heiress, The Fortune Hunter) insists. We were lucky enough to sit down with the writer for an interview. With Victoria entering its third season, however, she shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Daisy Goodwin could be forgiven for taking her foot off the gas following a hugely successful career.

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