16 Times Victoria Made Us Wish History Didn’t Happen

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Even the Series’ Showrunner Is Into This

It’s always nice when the powers that be behind a show you love also happen to vocally support your ship of choice. Particularly when that relationship is largely a secondary one in the world of your show. Or one that you know will never really come to pass. Such is the case with Victoria, whose creator Daisy Goodwin is apparently a massive Victoria/Melbourne shipper. She’s rather taken a beating over this in the British press, in fact. But that hasn’t stopped her from talking about her dramatic interpretation of these characters and their feelings for one another.

And according to Goodwin, there’s little doubt that they were crazy about each other, in every obvious way that is possible to glean from history. Just watch her explain how in love these two are, despite the generally doomed status of their relationship:

In addition to creating and writing every episode of Victoria, Goodwin also penned a companion novel for the series. Also titled Victoria, the book is pretty much a novelization of the first season. You know, kind of like those Star Wars books you saw all over your local bookstore after Rogue One came out. And Victoria the novel, not being bound to the forty-five minute runtime of a TV show, has a lot more space to play around with the bones of the same story.

And wow, does it ever. If you’re looking for more descriptions of Victoria and Melbourne pining over one another, then this is definitely the book for you. All those scenes in the show that make you wishhistory wasn’t a thing that happened? They’re turned up to eleven in this book. If you thought that the show didn’t go far enough in confirming how much Victoria and Melbourne were totally in love? The novelization has your back. (So thanks for that at least, Daisy.)