MOVIES – NEW

Most of the movies I see are at home – in the library of The Study. But yesterday was an exception.

Dear Wife and I and a Dear Friend embarked on a viewing of The Young Victoria – a splendid film dealing with one of the most important individuals in modern history – in all of history.

The reviews have been splendid – and our take on the film was that it was/is outstanding.

The old memory banks I claim as my own are foggy – but much of the film strikes me as the real thing.

Victoria, Her Royal Highness, Queen and Empress – I think the Latin is Regina et Imperiatrix - Sovereign of the largest and perhaps most important empire in the history of the planet.

It is the story of her meeting and falling in love with and marrying Prince Albert –

There are windows opened upon some of the personalities around the Court – bits and pieces of the politics of The Era – the beginnings of the Victorian Age – an Era so greatly misunderstood by virtually all people today, except those who take more than a casual interest…

Anyway, if you have within you an ounce of romance and love of even a part of our cultural past, see this film.

It is splendid.