Season three of Victoria, the Masterpiece PBS series about the Queen's early reign, premiered last week and introduced viewers to several new characters: Victoria's new Mistress of Robes, Duchess ...

Laurence Fox is well known to MASTERPIECE viewers after his eight seasons on the beloved series Inspector Lewis, so his appearance on Victoria as the devious UK Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, is ...

LONDON, UK — Time spent in lockdown was just superb for Palmerston, the chief mouser at the U.K. Foreign Office. It was so good, in fact, that the cat has decided to leave sorting out international ...

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