Rowland Hill On Television?

My wife and I have been watching the PBS series 'Victoria'. It's on Sunday evenings which is inconvenient for us so we have saved the episodes on our system. Last night we were watching episode three and there was a scene where a middle aged man was explaining to Victoria about the new postal system and showing her a sheet of Penny Blacks. I don't think his name was mentioned but to me he looked like Rowland Hill. Victoria was annoyed to think people would be licking a label with her picture on it.

Just wonder if anyone else noticed this segment, I had been wondering if they'd include something about it and they did. Nicely done.

I saw that too. His name wasn't mentioned, but it was no doubt intended to be Sir Rowland. The Queen and her entourage kind of tittered at the whole idea, but Prince Albert thought it a stroke of genius.

Amazing....I missed it - Sir Rowland made history !

Well, he got a knighthood. I think you may be over-estimating the influence the British monarchy has had over the last 180 years!

Geoffha,
I don't

Both my Grandfathers were O.B.E and I have the medals - they contributed to the War efforts, did not go to the front but received easy accolades from the Monarchy at the time.......medals !

If I had a "sir" or "Sir" besides my name, what value would it have - ?

Rene

The actor Ben Abell played the part of Sir Rowland Hill in Victoria.

Non philatelic question here. My understanding of the law of succession to the British throne was that - at that time- a female could only inherit the Crown if there was no eligible male to do so. What about Victoria's uncle- George III's youngest son, the Duke of Cumberland? He was very much alive when his brother William IV died. He was up in years by then but why was he passed over? Did it have to do with his status as King of Hanover?

I've tried finding an answer on line and just cannot seem to. Maybe some Royal historians out there can solve this riddle?

No expert here, but I always believed that even at that time the offspring (whether male or female) of a reigning monarch would take precedence over the monarch's siblings.

dudley, thanks.

Victoria would have been 10-11 years old when her grandfather George IV died and her uncle, George's brother, became King William IV. It would seem if offspring took precedence, that she would have become the monarch (with a Regent) then.

One thing I have run across is that her uncle Cumberland became king of Hanover immediately upon his brother William's death because Hanover prohibited having a Queen. Perhaps there was some law in England at the time that this made him ineligible to being King there.

None of this matters a bit today. It's still fascinating at least, to some of us.