King Albert is the ruling monarch and was made king at a young age after the premature death of his parents, his mother after childbirth and his father to disease. The Archduke convinced him that unless he projected strength and order over the population, chaos and havoc would envelope the kingdom. As a result, Albert imposed harsh and cruel laws regulating the lives of the people to keep them in servitude, and infamously became known as “The Clockwork King”. He allows his fear to control him, and while he is a very good person at heart, his inner inhibitions cause him to make terrible decisions and block out the people who love him best. Victoria helps to remedy this flaw as they fall in love.