Saturday, May 07, 2011

Radio review – BP – “Victoria Regina” (1952) **

One for fans of Helen Hayes and few others, except maybe die-hard royalists – she repeats her stage triumph of the 1930s, playing a cutesy Queen Victoria. The emphasis is on her relationship with Prince Albert, their courtship and marriage, but it goes through to her jubilee, with cameos from people like Lord Melbourne and the Duchess of Kent. Affectionate, sweet, treacly.

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