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The Young Victoria

Year:
Duration:
USA:105 min | Germany:100 min (European Film Market)
Genres:
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Jean-Marc Vallée
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 15 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2009-03-06
Filming Locations: Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $35,000,000
Opening Weekend: $160,069 (USA) (20 December 2009)
Gross: $10,991,381 (USA) (25 April 2010)
Cast
Actor
Character
Rachael Stirling
Rachael Stirling
The Young Victoria
Emily Blunt
Queen Victoria
Rupert Friend
Prince Albert
Paul Bettany
Lord Melbourne
Miranda Richardson
Duchess of Kent
Jim Broadbent
King William
Thomas Kretschmann
King Leopold
Mark Strong
Sir John Conroy
Jesper Christensen
Baron Stockmar
Harriet Walter
Queen Adelaide
Jeanette Hain
Baroness Lehzen
Julian Glover
Duke of Wellington
Michael Maloney
Sir Robert Peel
Michiel Huisman
Ernest
Genevieve O'Reilly
Lady Flora Hastings
Morven Christie
Watson
Josef Altin
Edward Oxford
Tom Brooke
Man on Soap Box
Michaela Brooks
Young Victoria Age 11
Grace Smith
Young Victoria Age 5
Sophie Roberts
Lady Portman
Charlie Clarke
The Newsboy
Robert Cambrinus
Kammerrher Turner
Tom Fisher
Lord Chamberlain
Shaun Dingwall
Footman
Alice Glover
Duchess of Montrose
David Horovitch
Sir James Clark
Jo Hartley
Landlady
Bernard Lloyd
Archbishop of Canterbury
John Pirkis
Earl of Derby
Iain Mitchell
Speaker
David Robb
Whig Member
Malcolm Sinclair
Charles Kemble
Julia St John
Marchioness of Hastings
Thomas Michael Voss
Dancing Master
Julie McDonnell
Lady in Waiting
Liam Scott
Duke of Sussex
Mark Beesley
Opera Singer
Richard Quine
Opera Singer
Nick Chopping
Footman
Rowley Irlam
Footman
Kelly Dent
Cupid
Mark Henson
Falling Bishop
Dominic Preece
Officer of Escort
Peter White
Apprehending Pedestrian
Len Woodcock
Pedestrian (as Lenny Woodcock)
Princess Beatrice
Lady in Waiting
Danny Dalton
Prince of Prussia
Kate Dion-Richard
Featured Dancer (uncredited)
James Fiddy
Footman
Neil Findlater
Footman
Ruth Leah
Elvira - Opera Singer (uncredited)
Michael Mansbridge
Musician (uncredited)
Stephen Ralphs
Prince Albert's Archery Coach
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Trivia
The floppy mesh bonnet Emily Blunt wears in the garden is the same one Rosamund Pike wears in Meryton when she learns Mr. Bingley has returned to Netherfield in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Catherine Walker wears in the garden with Catherine in Northanger Abbey (2007), and an extra wears at church in Becoming Jane (2007).
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The very tall green bed cost £25,000 to build. The Duke and Duchess of Rutland, owners of Belvoir Castle, purchased it after filming.
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Many of the interior scenes were filmed at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. The bed used in the honeymoon scene was slept in by the real Queen Victoria when she visited the castle in 1843. The bedroom is so small that all the cameras had to be placed outside the windows.
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Goofs
When shots were fired at the carriage in which he and Victoria were traveling, Prince Albert does not appear to be injured. Immediately following he is carried back to the Palace seriously hurt.
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A bloodstained Albert is carried into the palace after being wounded by a would-be assassin. There were several attempts to kill Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, but they were not harmed by any of them.
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Leopold I tells Stockmar "I am the youngest son of a penniless duke". Leopold's father, Francis, was the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and hardly penniless. He was also not the youngest son; Franz Maximilian Ludwig, who lived just 22 days, was born two years after Leopold.
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Quotes
Sir John Conroy: [watching the crowd outside the palace] How changeable they are. They hate you, they love you, they hate you.
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Princess Victoria: [voiceover] Some people are born more fortunate than others. Such was the case with me. But as a child I was convinced of quite the opposite. What little girl does not dream of growing up as a princess? But some palaces are not at all what you would think. Even a palace can be a prison. Mama never explained why she would have someone taste my food, why I couldn't attend school with other children or read popular books. When my father died, Mama and her advisor, Sir John Conroy, created rules. He said they were for my protection, and he called it The Kensington System. I could not sleep in a room without Mama, or even walk downstairs without holding the hand of an adult. I learned the reason for all this when I was eleven: my Uncle William was the King of England, yet he and his three brothers could boast only one living child. And that was me. Sir John's dream was that the King would die and there would be a regency where my mother would rule England and he would rule my mother. So I began to dream of the day when my life would change and I might be free. And I prayed for the strength to meet my destiny.
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Queen Victoria: I do want to help them, whatever you say. And not just the laboring poor, but the hungry and the homeless, and... There are people who are lost, and whose business is it to see to their welfare?
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Faq
Q
What breed of dog was Dash?
A
Dash is a tri-color Cavalier King Charles spaniel, named after the English King Charles, who reigned in the mid-1600s. At one time, the breed was the favorite of royalty.
Q
Any recommendations for good books about Queen Victoria?
A
The following books about Queen Victoria have been recommended by viewers of this movie: (1) We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, and Rivals (2009) by Gillian Gill, (2) Becoming Queen (2009) by Kate Williams, (3) Queen Victoria (2002) by Lytton Strachey, (4) Victoria: The Young Queen by Monica Charlot (1991), (5) Queen Victoria, A Personal History (2001) by Christopher Hibbert, and (6) Queen Victoria: From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort (1974) by Cecil Woodham-Smith.
Q
How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
A
For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Young Victoria can be found here.
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