Queen Victoria's London Stories
Queen Victoria's London Stories are four side memories in which the Queen sends the Frye twins after an upstart Templar faction planning bomb attacks across London. Each one starts at Buckingham Palace and works with her spymaster Alfred Fleming.
- Type
- Storyline
- Given by
- Queen Victoria
Good to know
- Giver: Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace.
- Four memories, each named Operation: Dynamite Boat, Locomotive, Drive for Lives and Westminster.
- Alfred Fleming, who runs the Queen's secret service, briefs you in the field.
- The plot moves from dynamite smuggled in by ship to a bomb train, a carriage of explosives at Victoria Station and an attack on Parliament.
- Victoria is voiced by Ellen David.
When they take placeSpoilerShow
The Queen greets the twins as her newly honoured friends, so these memories follow the knighting at the end of the main story and are set in the aftermath of the fight with Crawford Starrick.
What the stories are about
Victoria tells the twins that a secret society has lost its leader and a breakaway faction wants to move into London and take control. She does not fear for herself but for her people. The memories follow the faction's leader from his capture at the docks to his escape and his last stand inside the Houses of Parliament, where he takes Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli hostage.
Memory list in order
1. Operation: Dynamite Boat. 2. Operation: Locomotive. 3. Operation: Drive for Lives. 4. Operation: Westminster.
How it endsSpoilerShow
Victoria thanks the twins and hopes they will keep helping her strengthen the Empire. Evie replies that their Creed forbids them to help it expand and suggests she give up her imperial ambitions. The Queen says she respects their position, hands over gifts as a final thanks and leaves with Disraeli.
Victoria elsewhere in the game
The Queen also turns up outside these memories. In The Dreadful Crimes, a royal guard is found dead in her study and she asks the twins to investigate, and in The Last Maharaja she hosts a gala at the Tower of London where the Koh-i-Noor goes missing.
- 1Operation: Dynamite BoatOperation: Dynamite Boat is the first Queen Victoria memory: a ship of Templars is bringing dynamite from Boston up the Thames, and you help Alfred Fleming's secret service ambush it. Afterwards you catch the faction's fleeing leader alive.
- 2Operation: LocomotiveOperation: Locomotive is the second Queen Victoria memory: the Templar prisoner will not talk to Fleming, so the Queen sends you to get answers. A short fight gets you the details of a train packed with dynamite heading for a crowded station, and you have to stop it.
- 3Operation: Drive for LivesOperation: Drive for Lives is the third Queen Victoria memory: the Templar leader has escaped and is believed to be hiding in Westminster. You trail his carriage to Victoria Station, then have to rush a lit cart of explosives away from the crowds.
- 4Operation: WestminsterOperation: Westminster is the last Queen Victoria memory: the remaining Templar bombers have got into the Houses of Parliament with their explosives. You work through the building with Fleming, removing bombers one by one, then deal with the leader and defuse the charges.
- Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli is the Prime Minister the Templars want dead in Sequence 7. Jacob poses as his bodyguard to save him, and the Disraelis later help the twins steal the Gladstones' invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball.
- Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria gives the Queen Victoria London Stories, in which the twins stop a new Templar faction's bombing campaign. She also hosts the Buckingham Palace ball at the end of the main story and appears in The Dreadful Crimes and The Last Maharaja.
Related missions
- Story
Double Trouble
Double Trouble begins the finale: after a bitter argument, the twins agree to one last job together, and Jacob has to steal William and Catherine Gladstone's invitations to the Queen's ball. The two split up, so you pickpocket each one in turn.
Image: UbisoftStoryA Night to Remember
A Night to Remember is the final main memory: the twins enter the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace, Evie retrieves the vault plans from the White Drawing Room while Jacob rescues captive Royal Guards on the roofs, and both face Crawford Starrick in the vault below.
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Murder at the Palace!
Murder at the Palace! is the final Dreadful Crimes case: Frederick Abberline calls you to Buckingham Palace, where a guard lies dead in Queen Victoria's study on the day of a knighting ceremony. The case pulls in clues from every earlier crime and ends with a rooftop standoff.
- Story
Driving Mrs. Disraeli
Driving Mrs. Disraeli is an escort memory with a comic streak: Jacob shakes off reporters, drives Mary Anne Disraeli and her dog Desmond into the Devil's Acre slum, and keeps her out of trouble long enough to learn who B is.