Reigning with grace, strength and austerity, Victoria is a queen both deeply loved and secretly despised. Nursing his grandfather's grudge over a slight by Her Majesty years before, Nigel Whitaker schemes to transport the monarch's beloved two-year-old great-grandson, Prince David, to the New World. When childless emigrants Jeremy and Cecilia Barlow become deeply attached to the adorable child, his royal future seems very uncertain.