Warning: This article contains spoilers for next week's (September 17) episode of ITV's Victoria.
Victoria fans, this is no doubt going to cause tears, so you might want to grab a hanky and sit down for this one.
Rufus Sewell β AKA the wonderful Lord M β won't be returning to the series, according to the Radio Times.
In Sunday's (September 10) episode, Lord Melbourne was looking rather sickly, and it did feel rather like he was saying a final goodbye to the Queen (Jenna Coleman) β and it turns out, he was.
Viewers were ecstatic when the character made his return to the show last month, bringing with him plenty of good advice for the Queen and revealing himself as quite the feminist.
Sewell was delighted to be back in the role as well, having been given a substantial-enough storyline to justify the return.
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"One of the things that appealed about the role originally was that it was finite β a lovely contained story with a beginning, middle, and end," he said. "I really didn't want Melbourne to be hanging around beyond the natural span of his story."
He added: "When the producers came to me with a way to bring him back in season two that was still true to the story, I was only too happy to come back."
Victoria continues next Sunday (September 17) at 9pm on ITV.
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