Duncan Greive is the editor and founder of New Zealand pop culture-obsessed website The Spinoff and columnist for the NZ Herald. "I can manage... alone," says the newly-anointed, not-yet-crowned Queen Victoria as some hapless chap tries to assist her passage down a set of stairs. "I know I'm young, and my sex puts me at a disadvantage," says Victoria at one point. Related Content Duncan Greive: Why didn't Animals, the best TV pilot in years, get picked up? Duncan Greive: Funny Girls is great, but it could be even better Duncan Greive: 'Bloated, pompous' Westworld marks end of TV's golden ageThis sets up an ongoing tension between the young Queen's squad and that of her more pliable mother, the vaguely pitiful Duchess of Kent.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 01, 2016 19:06 UTC