Marriage isn’t easy, even in the early days, especially a royal marriage. It’s even harder if you are an intellectual who dabbles in cutting edge music, but your wife only thinks of you as a sex object. It wasn’t easy being Albert. Victoria had a lot of on her plate too, what with being a new Queen, starting her journey to Empress, and that pesky pregnancy. Oh and saving the political system of the U.K.

• Intro & reviews.
• Albert & the music.
• Beethoven.
• The invention of the neutrality of the crown.
• Corruption, reform & sexual politics.
• A woman’s role as queen.
• India sounds interesting.
• Good governance.
• Pregnancy & child birth.
• A might have been.

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