IMDB Plot Synopsis: A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
- I need a family tree to keep these people straight. Damn those royals for having so many family members and then for marrying within those families as well.
- I enjoyed that although the costumes were sumptuous and plentiful, we’d often see the same dress or hat more than once.
- How on earth does the prime minister have enough spare time on his hands to be the personal advisor to the Queen? Clearly, they had an ineffective parliament.
- While I think the story itself wasn’t anything to get excited about in how it was presented on screen, it’s the story between Victoria and Albert that made this movie rather charming. It’s nice that two characters who share so little screen time can have such good chemistry and it’s especially nice that they seemed to genuinely like each other (a trait all too uncommon on movies with romantic plots). They were rather adorable and it was very easy to root for them, especially in the face of all the other failures in their midst.
- Loved the King’s hysterical senile outburst at his birthday party. Awkward family dinners, indeed.
- Rupert Friend needs to stop playing attractive Germans, oh my god. At least this time he wasn’t a Nazi.
- Speaking of Nazis, Thomas Kretschmann, everyone’s favourite movie Nazi, played Victoria’s and Albert’s mutual Uncle Leopold in this. Love this guy, if only because he seems to be in about 65% of the WWII movies I see.
- There were some rather hilariously weird shots that didn’t have much place in the film, including most of the slow-mo, the shot of the Duchess’ hair on her arms standing up on end when someone tries to assassinate Victoria, and the gut-busting scene where Conroy silently sneaks up on Victoria unattended, as if we weren’t yet able to figure out that he’s a villain.
- The movie ended kind of abruptly. While they closed with details on how many children Victoria and Albert had and how their descendants ended up as crowned heads all over Europe, they conveniently left out the whole hemophilia thing (of which I just found an awesome chart about).
- There’s something really satisfying in watching men get thwarted by the woman they are trying to use to their own political advantages.
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