] Did it point out the close family similarity between Victoria and Charlotte? They were first cousins, and her husband Albert was the nephew of the bereaved Leopold, who promoted the match (he'd lost his chance of being Consort with Charlotte's death, so he was having another go by proxy). Victoria would have been well aware of what had happened to her cousin.

Yes, it mentioned that Victoria corresponded with Leopold, etc. I didn't elaborate on the Victorian part of the programme for fear of going off-topic. As you know, Vicky's insistence on pain relief gave comfort to those women who weren't impressed by the noisy faction (almost all men I imagine) who thought the agonies of childbirth were divinely appointed and should be endured. Someone else pointed out (and I hadn't heard this before) that as God put Adam into a deep sleep before extracting the rib, anaesthesia was obviously OK, so why not pain relief?