Better news: I love that show.
Albert is just what we needed.
Albert turnsVictoriainto the best kind of rom-com, mainly because hed hate the thought of being in a rom-com.
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The Clockwork Prince picks up right where the last episode ended with a rudely interrupted piano solo.
Let the burns begin.
Albert grumbles all the way to his room: Imagine not knowing if you own a Leonardo!
Thats the thing about Albert: Hes melodramatic, but sometimes hes right.
Albert refuses to play the games that George and the Grand Duke played last week.
At first, it doesnt look good.
Almost all of Victoria and Alberts early conversations devolve into lists of things they do not care for.
Albert doesnt like card games and being told he cant finish his dinner.
Victoria doesnt like paintings of people with wobbling flesh.
But no sensitive child of privilege can resist a good piano.
Albert asks Victoria if she can handle the more difficult part.
I have never had a problem with it, she insists.
But it has so many chords, and you have such small hands.
Their kids are going to be so petty.
The next day, Ernest ribs his brother for finding so many excuses to touch Victoria during their duet.
(Its a complicated piece!)
King Leopold, meanwhile, urges Victoria to hurry up and propose to the prince.
They played music together, so obviously theyre compatible.
Shut down Tinder and buy your crush a grand piano already.
Victoria isnt there yet, but shes getting there, even if she wont admit it.
And maybe she wants Albert to be there.
Poor, tortured Lord M seems like hes starting to regret turning down the queens proposal.
On the other, all of his best talking points involve birds.
Albert is a much more versatile brooder.
I will hold them here, he says.
Next to my heart.
This is easily the most obscene thing Lord M has ever witnessed.
This is also where everything changes for Victoria.
(You know how fond I am of… She even brushes up on the art collection at the palace.
Albert does not care for wearing gold braid.
They look almost ready to kiss when Victorias dog, Dash, yelps in the distance.
Hes broken his leg.
I, on the other hand, Albert argues, would rather see things for what they are.
Melbourne points out that Albert isnt a big smiler.
I know, Victoria admits.
Thats why I want him to smile at me.
Girl, propose already.
Taking the hint, Melbourne reassures Albert that he wont be prime minister much longer.
And so Victoria proposes.
For me this is not a marriage of convenience, Albert assures.
No, Victoria says, I think it will be a marriage of inconvenience.
In case youd forgotten, theyre first cousins.
