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Was Queen Victoria coercively controlled by Prince Albert?

Writer Daisy Goodwin on her new play, Victoria: A Queen Unbound.

Writer Daisy Goodwin on Victoria: A Queen Unbound. Was the marriage between Victoria and Albert as idyllic as it has been portrayed? Her new play explores the idea that Prince Albert exerted coercive control over Queen Victoria.

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