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- A: The film stars Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and Billy Connolly as John Brown.
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Jan 16, 2017 · In PBS’s new drama Victoria, which premiered last night, the titular queen is just 18 years old when she ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom. The truth is, she was a young girl who...
Jan 15, 2017 · Victoria did have a tense relationship with her mother and rumors swirled that her uncle was plotting against her, but there was no confirmed attempts at sabotage in real life.
Oct 5, 2023 · Released in 1982, this musical comedy-drama follows the story of Victoria Grant, a struggling soprano who finds success by pretending to be a male impersonator named Victor. Set in 1930s Paris, the film not only boasts an incredible cast, including Julie Andrews, James Garner, and Robert Preston, but also delivers a powerful message about ...
Jan 5, 2017 · Here’s a rundown of the real-life personae of the series, as well as side-by-side comparisons of the actors and the historical figures. Queen Victoria (Jenna Coleman) (ITV Plc/Royal Collection) Crowned queen at the young age of 18, she reigned for 63 years before dying in 1901.
- Queen Victoria
- Prince Albert
- Lord Melbourne
- Prince Ernest
- Miss Skerrett
- Francatelli
- Mrs Jenkins
- The Duchess of Kent
- Duke of Cumberland
- Duchess of Cumberland
The Victoria of 1837 is an energetic teenager whose accession liberates her from the strict system of education developed by her overprotective mother, the German Duchess of Kent and the odious Sir John Conroy She's probably best known for travelling through space and time with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who, but long before she set foo...
Handsome and dashing, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, the Queen’s first cousin, was for many in the European elite the obvious choice for a sensible, stabilising influence on the unpredictable new queen. But their road to romance was anything but smooth... The man who would be prince to Jenna Coleman's queen first popped up in Casualty spin...
Dubbed ‘Lord M’ by the monarch, Melbourne quickly becomes all things to the queen during her first years on the throne: prime minister, private secretary, trusted friend, favourite teacher, surrogate father and – to put it bluntly – love object Film's favourite baddie (he was cracking in A Knight's Tale, wasn't he?) Rufus Sewell is quite the season...
Ernest by name but not by nature, the prince’s gregarious, Dionysian instincts could not be more at odds to his younger brother’s Apollonian sobriety. Whilst Albert spent his adolescence absorbing himself in academia, Ernest immersed himself in the art of womanising and revelry. From The Pillars of The Earth to Borgia, Ripper Street and The White Q...
Skerrett - loosely based on a real-life member of Buckingham Palace’s serving staff – mysteriously appears soon afer the accession with a recommendation from the Chiswick Institute. She is to become assistant to Jenkins, the Queen’s prickly personal dresser. Outlander fans will known Hudson and Laoghaire MacKenzie, the wily young woman who is scorn...
Based on a real chef in Victoria’s household, Charles Elme Francatelli is of Italian extraction, but grew up in London and studied cookery in France. With a surname like that you might wonder, but yes, Ferdinand is in fact Ben Kingsley's son. Don't define him by his surname though, he's made his own way in the acting world with roles in The Hollow ...
Senior dresser to the Queen, Jenkins has a no-nonsense, pragmatic attitude towards her work. Probably best known as Torchwood's Gwen Cooper, Eve Myles' face will be familiar to fans of Doctor Who, Little Dorrit and Belonging. She had a bit part in Merlin before she went travelling through space and time, and since leaving the Whoniverse she's poppe...
Victoria's mother is an insecure woman in a foreign land with a weak grasp of the language and an ill-advised attachment to a roguish army officer (Sir John Conroy). To her daughter, she is a problem to be dealt with… Her face may not be familiar to Sunday night audiences but Flemming is quite the accomplished German actress. She's probably best kn...
Disfigured by an enormous scar on his face, Ernest Augustus is in many respects a cartoon-like villain, rumoured to have murdered his valet and fathered a child with his own sister. On the death of William IV, Ernest becomes King of Hanover, but he's not happy to see his niece take the British throne. Spooks' Sir Harry Pearce sure has moved up in t...
Believed to have poisoned her previous husband in order to marry the Duke of Cumberland, the devious, power-hungry Princess Frederica of Solms-Braunfel is a fine match for Ernest Augustus. She is ever eager to remind him that were Victoria to die in childbirth like Princess CharloEe, then he would be heir to the throne. Sheila Sabatini strikes agai...
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Jan 12, 2017 · A revered and aristocratic British Whig statesman, Lord Melbourne served as the home secretary and prime minister of England before mentoring Queen Victoria in her early years on the throne. In...
Jan 13, 2017 · Victoria is portrayed as finding Albert irritating at first, but it wasn’t like that in real life. “On the contrary,” Ridley told the Mail, “Victoria fell madly in love at first sight. She ...
