Looking for Victoria

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Looking for Victoria was a two-hour television docudrama on the life of Queen Victoria, presented by Prunella Scales and showing Scales' research for her one-woman show An Evening with Queen Victoria. [1] Shown on BBC 1 in 2003, [2] and available on BBC iPlayer, as two 56-minute programmes, [3] it was directed by Louise Osmond and narrated by Geoffrey Palmer, while its cast included Charlie Hayes as the young Victoria, Tom Allen as the young Prince Albert, Andrew Sachs as Benjamin Disraeli, Timothy West as Thomas Creevey, Timothy Walker as Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Richenda Carey as Lady Wharnecliffe, David Ryall as Henry James, Charles Dance as Charles Greville and Geoffrey Bayldon as Henry Ponsonby. Filming locations included Royal Glen Hotel [4] in Sidmouth.

References

  1. ↑ "An Evening with Queen Victoria". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  2. ↑ Flett, Kathryn (9 November 2003). "Close encounters of the last kind". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "Looking for Victoria". BBC. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  4. ↑ "The history of the Royal Glen Hotel". Royal Glen Hotel. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
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