| “ | Every time I smile at you across a room, or we run into each other at a luncheon, or I welcome you into my home let that smile be a reminder of just how much I despise you. And that every time I hug you, the warmth you feel is my hatred burning through.'' | „ |
| ~ Victoria Grayson to Lydia Davis. |
Victoria Harper (formerly; Victoria Grayson) is the main antagonist of ABC series Revenge. She is the most powerful matriarch of the Grayson family who will stop at nothing to protect her social status and ensure that her children live up to their fullest potential. She is also the ex-wife of Conrad Grayson and had an affair with David Clarke before she framed him for a terrorist attack while pregnant with their daughter.
She was portrayed by Madeleine Stowe (as an adult) and Grace Fulton (as a teen).
Contents
- 1 Description
- 2 Personality
- 3 Trivia
- 4 See also
Description[]
Victoria is the second wife of Conrad Grayson and the mother of Daniel, Charlotte and Patrick. Victoria will stop at nothing to protect her social status and ensure that her children live up to their fullest potential. Her net worth is $16.8 billion dollars. As of 1998, the reigning Queen of the Hamptons social scene has been married to Conrad for 25 years. They married in 1986. Although she seems to love her children very much, Victoria clearly favors Daniel while always finding a reason to chastise her daughter, Charlotte, as seen in the pilot. So far she dislikes Emily dating Daniel.
Personality[]
Victoria was manipulative, cold and rarely displays her true feelings. Ironically she was more like Amanda Clarke than either of them has ever realized. The only big difference in their personalities is that Victoria was not loyal to her loved ones and Victoria has no remorse and only thinks about herself. Although Victoria rarely shows her true feelings, she has a more vulnerable side as made evident by her request that Frank Stevens to stay with her when she was alone in her house. She also seemed genuinely devastated when Frank was killed and it has been implied that she might have had feelings for him, although it was possible that she was simply manipulating him to get him to do what she wanted.
Victoria did genuinely love David Clarke, but it had been implied that she used to have a rather weak willed nature, since she helped Conrad and Frank frame him, despite her feelings for her lover. However, after David's arrest, Victoria appeared to become a stronger person, doing her best to get David out of prison despite the disapproval of her husband. She later stated that David was the only man she had ever truly loved and never forgave herself for betraying him.
The Hampton Queen was also fiercely competitive and suffers no rivals. Victoria seemingly wants to own the people she claims to love and desires to be the only person in their lives who matters. This might explain why she never got along with young Amanda Clarke and why she never truly apologized for all the harm she did her.
Victoria was a hypocrite, she claims that what the conspirators did to David was horrible, when she was the one who betrayed him in the first place. She's also livid that Conrad and Lydia had an affair, though Victoria cheated on Conrad too and never loved him to begin with.
Victoria loves her children very much, although she had a better relationship with Daniel than she does with Charlotte. It was later revealed that Charlotte was actually David Clarke's daughter, and the reason Victoria was so cold towards Charlotte was, because she reminded her of the fact that she had betrayed David. As time went on Victoria's whole family turned against her, but after surviving the White haired man's attempt to assassinate her, she became closer to Charlotte. She loves her eldest son Patrick the most. When he returns, she spends the entire summer bonding with him and they develop an intense mother-son relationship.
In Season 4, all of Victoria's children turned their backs on her, this time for good. Charlotte checked herself into rehab tired of being a pawn in her mother's war with Emily. Daniel sees his mother as cautionary tale; Victoria's twisted kind of "love" only ensures a life of solitude. Wanting to be better than his parents Daniel leaves Victoria to self-destruct. Even Patrick whom Victoria connected with the most left in the end, hating the violent duplicitous man he was becoming under Victoria's influence. In a rare show of altruism Victoria allowed her favorite son to depart.
Trivia[]
- Despite the fact that both she and her ex-husband (and her number one co-conspirator) Conrad were killed by the same person (David Clarke) her death has some differences with that of Conrad's. When Conrad realized he was gonna die he accepted his fate and did nothing to stop it and as a result he died in an honorable way. Victoria on the other hand, used her last breath to shoot her nemesis and David's daughter Amanda aka Emily in the back and that resulted in her dying in disgrace.
- At the end she suffers the same fate that she and Conrad planned for David she was betrayed by everyone which lead to her demise.
- It was revealed that her father raped her when she didn't know who he was.
See also[]
- Conrad Grayson - Victoria's ex-husband
