The Young Victoria
Watching one of these period dramas is the closest thing to curling up with a long juicy favorite book whose pages have gone that deliscious shade of creamy yellow.
I watched The Young Victoria leaning back on soft soft plump cushions and sipping peach iced tea. How luxurious is that! Being fond of this genre of movies, I unsurprisingly enjoyed every minute of it.
Emily Blunt is Queen Victoria, or rather Princess Victoria. A prettier one than the real McCoy, probably. If you thought princesses have a nice pampered life within the walls and of the palace, forget it. The young Victoria wasn’t allowed to walk alone, she couldn’t read fiction, and right into adulthood she wasn’t allowed to walk down the stairs unless someone held her hand and she certainly wans’t allowed to hang out having fun. In fact, you name it and she wasn’t allowed it. As she grew up, Victoria, who had never known her father, was surrounded by vultures waiting to see her on the throne and take complete control of her. Not the least of these vultures was her own mother and her mother’s lover, Lord John Conroy. No one was without motive, no one just let her be.
When George the IVth died, the princess Victoria became queen. She also met Prince Albert, and this film is large part about thrie romance, their battles with one another, and the intrigue that surrounded them always. Well, they eventually had nine children and ruled together for twenty years – Victoria for over sixty years, I think.
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