Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Queen Victoria has been portrayed or referenced many times.

Literature

In 1937

Vaughan Wilkins' novel And So-Victoria (1937) focuses on Victoria's life.^[2]

Queen Victoria appears in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel From Hell, where she is depicted as instigating the Whitechapel murders.

A

The Victorian age is experienced through the eyes of the fictional Morland family in The Abyss, The Hidden Shore, The Winter Journey, The Outcast, The Mirage, The Cause, The Homecoming and The Question, Volumes 18–25 respectively of The Morland Dynasty, a series of historical novels by author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. One of the characters becomes Victoria's devoted lady-in-waiting.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles also wrote I Victoria, a fictional autobiography of Queen Victoria.

There is a Sanskrit poem named Cakravarttini gunamanimala, written by T. Ganapati Sastri on Queen Victoria.^[3]

Another Sanskrit poem, titled Victoria Carita Sangraha, was written by scholar Keralavarman on the occasion of the

Although she did not live to see the Victorian age, Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) wrote a number of poetic tributes to the young princess and queen. These are:

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

The Princess Victoria,
by L. E. L. 1832

• Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832. 'The Princess Victoria', to accompany a plate drawn by Anthony Stewart and engraved by T. Woolnoth. (This plate is in some editions, entitled 'The Princess Alexandrina-Victoria')^[5]
• Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837. 'The Princess Victoria', to accompany a plate engraved by J. Cochran after Sir Geo. Hayter's painting.^[6]

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

The Princess Victoria,
by L. E. L. 1837

• 'A Birthday Tribute. Addressed to H. R. H. the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, on Attaining Her Eighteenth Year.'., 1837.^[7]
• Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838. 'To the Queen'. Frontispiece.^[8]

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

To the Queen,
by L. E. L. 1838

• Flowers of Loveliness, 1838. 'To Victoria'..^[9]
• Schloss's Bijou Almanack, 1838. 'Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria'..^[10]

Film

On screen, Victoria has been portrayed by:

• The Victoria Cross (1912)^[11]
• Louie Henri in the silent film Sixty Years a Queen (1913)
• Mrs. Henry Lytton in the silent film Disraeli (1916)
• Blanche Graham in the silent film Livingstone (1925), the story of David Livingstone
• The Yankee Clipper
  (1927)
• Marion Drada in the silent film Balaclava (1928)
• Margaret Mann in Disraeli (1929)^[12]
• Madeleine Ozeray in the German French-language musical Court Waltzes (1933)
• Hanna Waag in the German film Waltz War (1933)
• Pamela Stanley in David Livingstone (1936) and Marigold (1938), based on the play by Charles Garvice, Allen Harker and F. Prior
• Fay Holden in The White Angel (1936), the story of Florence Nightingale
• Jenny Jugo in the German romantic comedy Victoria in Dover (1936)
• Yvette Pienne in the French comedy The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
• Viva Tattersall in Souls at Sea (1937)
• Anna Neagle in the biopics Victoria the Great (1937) and Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
• Beryl Mercer in The Little Princess (1939), based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
• Fay Compton in The Prime Minister (1941), about Benjamin Disraeli, and Journey to Midnight (1968)
• Evelyn Beresford in Buffalo Bill (1944) and the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
• Pamela Brown in Alice in Wonderland (1949), in which she also played the Queen of Hearts
• Irene Dunne in The Mudlark (1950), based on the novel by Theodore Bonnet
• Helena Pickard in The Lady with a Lamp (1951), based on the play by Reginald Berkeley about Florence Nightingale
• Muriel Aked in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
• Sybil Thorndike in Melba (1953), the story of soprano Nellie Melba
• West German biopic Victoria in Dover
  (1954), remake of the 1936 film, which features a highly fictionalised story about Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne and marriage to Prince Albert
• Avis Bunnage in the comedy The Wrong Box (1966)
• Barbara Carroll in the Italian film Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra (1969), in which Zorro visits the British Court
• Mollie Maureen in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
• Peter Sellers in The Great McGonagall (1974), a comic biopic of William McGonagall
• Susan Field in the spoof The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
• John Dalby in the animated musical fantasy Stories from a Flying Trunk (1979), adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Flying Trunk
• Eve Brenner voices a mouse version of Victoria in
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
  series.
• Mrs. Brown (1997), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dench reprised the role in Victoria & Abdul
  (2017)
• Debra Beaumont in the Chinese film The Opium War (1997)
• Liz Moscrop in From Hell (2001), based on the graphic novel
• Gemma Jones in Shanghai Knights (2003)^{[citation needed]}
• Tress MacNeille (voice) in the animated short Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
• Kathy Bates in Around the World in 80 Days (2004), based on the novel by Jules Verne
• Zoe Street Howe in "Florence Nightingale" (2008)
• Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria (2009), with Michaela Brooks playing Victoria as a girl^[13]
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012)^[14]
• Judi Dench in Victoria & Abdul (2017).
• Gayle Rankin in The Greatest Showman (2017)
• Amanda Root in The Black Prince (2017).
• Pam Ferris in Holmes & Watson (2018).
• Jessie Buckley in Dolittle (2020).

She also makes appearances in

• Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina (1951), an episode of the American series Robert Montgomery Presents based on the play by Housman
• Renée Asherson in the BBC drama series Happy and Glorious (1952)
• Judi Meredith in The Consort (1957), an episode of the American series Telephone Time
• Emmy award
• Kate Reid in the American drama The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963)
• Granada Television
  series Victoria Regina (1964), also based on Housman's play
• Gladys Spencer in the BBC Play of the Month, Gordon of Khartoum (1966)
• Jane Connell in an episode of the American sitcom Bewitched titled "Aunt Clara's Victoria Victory" (1967)
• Yorkshire Television drama series The Flaxton Boys
  titled "1854: The Dog" (1969)
• The Edwardians
  (1972)
• Perlita Neilson and (as an old woman) Mavis Edwards in the BBC drama series Fall of Eagles (1974)
• Terry Jones in an episode of the BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus titled "Sex and Violence" (1969)
• Michael Palin in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus titled "Michael Ellis" (1974)
• ATV drama series Edward the Seventh
  (1975)
• Mrs Henry Wood
• Rosemary Leach in the ATV drama series Disraeli (1978)
• LWT drama series Lillie (1978), telling the story of Lillie Langtry
• Jacquelyn Hyde [fr] in the American comedy drama The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979)
• Granada Television drama series Cribb
  titled "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1981)
• Marina McConnell in the Granada drama series Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
• Lurene Tuttle in an episode of the American time travel series Voyagers! titled "Buffalo Bill & Annie Oakley Play the Palace" (1983)
• Zena Walker in the episode of the Yorkshire Television drama series Number 10 titled "Dizzy" (1983)
• Siobhan Redmond in ITV series Alfresco episode #1.2 (1983)
• Bronwen Mantel in the drama Barnum (1986)
• Erica Rogers in the miniseries Shaka Zulu (1986), based on the novel by Joshua Sinclair
• Miriam Margolyes in the BBC comedy Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) and later reprised in The Windsors on Channel 4
• Around the World in 80 Days
  (1989)
• Honora Burke in the British drama Hands of a Murderer (1990)
• Margaret Heale in the BBC drama series Rhodes (1996)
• Rhoda Lewis [cy] and (as an old woman) Avril Angers in the Granada miniseries Victoria and Albert (1997)
• Wendy Worthington in an episode of the Paramount sitcom The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer titled "Saving Mr. Lincoln" (1998)
• Patti Allen in the series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
• Victoria Hamilton in the miniseries Victoria & Albert (2001), in which Joyce Redman played her as an old woman
• Charlie Hayes
  played the young Victoria
• Janine Duvitski in the BBC drama The Young Visiters (2003)
• Doreen Mantle in the BBC drama series Shadow Play (2004)
• Tessa Pointing in the British drama documentary The First Black Britons (2005)
• Pauline Collins in the episode of the BBC series Doctor Who titled "Tooth and Claw" (2006)
• Robert Webb in a comedy sketch on the show That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006)
• Sarah Hadland (2009, 2015), Martha Howe-Douglas (2010-2013), Ellie White (2017-2018) and Jessica Ransom (2019-) in the British children's sketch show Horrible Histories (2009——)
• Jenna Coleman in the ITV series Victoria (2016-2019)

Monty Python's Flying Circus portrays Queen Victoria as a slapstick prankster and includes a sketch in which she says "We are not amused" in German accented English. Another Monty Python sketch contains a footrace in which all the contestants are dressed as Queen Victoria.

In a series of sketches portraying the

In the 2006 series of Doctor Who, Queen Victoria appears in the episode "

Main article: List of statues of Queen Victoria

One of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll's works as a sculptor is her marble statue of her mother at Kensington Palace, and a bronze version erected in front of the Royal Victoria College, McGill University in Montreal.^[16]

The prominent

Victoria Memorial stands in Kolkata (Calcutta), and in Bangalore the statue of the Queen stands at the beginning of MG Road, one of the city's major roads.^[17] In the town of Cape Coast, Ghana, a bust of the Queen presides, rather forlornly, over a small park where goats graze around her.^[18] In Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, a statue toward the harbour from the centre of Kent and Cambridge Terraces. There is also a Queen Victoria Statue in the heart of Valletta, Malta

's capital.

Trivandrum

is still one of city's most sought after theatres for live entertainment and is considered a prestigious landmark by both locals and tourists alike.

In

Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. The statue once sat in Statue Square in Central but was removed and sent to Tokyo to be destroyed at the time of Japanese occupation of the territory, during World War II. With Japan

's defeat and subsequent retreat in 1945, The United Kingdom recovered Hong Kong, and the statue was retrieved and placed in the park.

In

South African Parliament

.

Most of the large cities in

Perth, capital city of Western Australia a marble statue stands in King's Park overlooking the city. In Adelaide, capital city of the state of South Australia, the Queen Victoria Square, named after her also has a large statue of her.^[19] In Brisbane, capital city of the state of Queensland, there is a statue of her in Queens Square, also named for her;.^[20] Ballarat, a boomtown in Victoria has a statue of Queen Victoria in the main street directly opposite its town hall. A small bust of the Queen is in the Queen Victoria Gardens in Burnt Pine, the largest town in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island

.

Statues erected to Victoria are common in

confederation of the country and the addition of three more provinces and two territories. A bas-relief image of Victoria is on the wall of the entrance to the Canadian Parliament, and her statue is in the Parliamentary library as well as on the grounds.^[21]

Musical theatre

In 1972 Charles Strouse wrote a musical, I and Albert,^[22] which was presented in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre on 6 November 1972. The musical was not a success and did not transfer as planned to Broadway. It remains notable chiefly as Sarah Brightman's stage debut.

Other

English rock band The Kinks honour Queen Victoria and her empire in their 1969 song "Victoria". The song has since been covered by English rock band The Kooks, English post-punk band The Fall, American alternative rock band Cracker, and American rock band Sonic Youth. Both The Kinks' and The Fall's versions were UK Top 40 hits.

Canadian singer Leonard Cohen refers to her in a mostly non-factual way in his 1964 poem "Queen Victoria and Me", and again in the 1972 song "Queen Victoria" (based on the poem). The song was later covered by Welsh musician John Cale.

In 2006, the Comics Sherpa online comic service started carrying a comic strip titled The New Adventures of Queen Victoria using cut-out photographs and portraits of the Queen and others.^[23]

In the Japanese

Queen Victoria leads the English civilization in the 2016 4X video game Civilization VI developed by Firaxis Games.^[26][27]

Queen Victoria is revealed to be watching the climactic trial in the video game The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, and uses her authority to strip the main villain of his position as chief justice. Rather than appearing in person, another character reads her proclamation to the court.

Footnotes