Victoria the Great

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Cast

Anna Neagle

as Queen Victoria

Anton Walbrook

as Prince Albert

Walter Rilla

as Prince Ernest

H.B. Warner

as Lord Melbourne

Mary Morris

as Duchess of Kent

James Dale

as Duke of Wellington

Felix Aylmer

as Lord Palmerston

Charles Carson

as Robert Peel

Gordon McLeod

as John Brown

C. V. France

as Archbishop of Canterburry

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