Overview
- La 1 launches the six-episode drama tonight at 22:45, with Kimberley Tell as Victoria Eugenia in a series created by Javier Olivares and based on Pilar Eyre’s book.
- A companion documentary, Victoria Eugenia, historia de un amor trágico, follows the premiere and features Eyre, journalist Jaime Peñafiel, historians, and Royal Collections director Víctor Cageao.
- The drama charts 1905–1945 to frame Ena’s life within Spain’s social and political upheavals without taking sides, according to Olivares.
- The release resolves a shelving of almost two years after the series was shown in Portugal and Finland, a delay publicly criticized by the creator.
- Ena is portrayed as a modernizing yet contested queen who converted to Catholicism to marry Alfonso XIII, championed the Spanish Red Cross, and defied traditional norms.