Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of plays based on the celebrated collection of dramas by playwright Laurence Housman. Self-willed, obstinate, imperious and passionate... a now-familiar description of one of history's longest-serving female monarchs – but Housman's satirical tribute marked a decisive break with the tradition of the uncritical historical portrait. A Broadway hit deemed too disrespectful for public performance in Britain until the late 1930s, Victoria Regina is a frank portrayal of an extraordinarily complex woman, tracing her development from royal teenager to inconsolable widow at the helm of a vast empire, with all her contradictions, prejudices and unconstitutional behavior.
Patricia Routledge
Queen Victoria
Joachim Hansen
Prince Albert
Max Adrian
Benjamin Disraeli
Geoffrey Dunn
Archbishop of Canterbury
Michael Bilton
Footman
Nicholas Courtney
Tudor
Marianne Demming
Duchess of Kent
Cyril Luckham
Lord Melbourne
Miles Malleson
Conyngham
Victoria73%
North & South80%
Downton Abbey81%
Lady Chatterley63%
Tales of the Unexpected68%
Jane Eyre76%
Pride and Prejudice82%
Miss Austen62%
Finding Her Edge75%
Murdoch Mysteries77%
Dangerous Liaisons62%
Cranford81%
War and Peace62%
The Paradise73%
Silk75%
Wuthering Heights71%
Empire71%
Smash64%
Jane Eyre71%
Road to Avonlea82%
