Looking for Victoria

Drama documentary with Prunella Scales. Scales researches the life of Queen Victoria and interviews historians to help her with her portrayal of Queen Victoria in her one-woman stage show "An Evening with Queen Victoria". She also portrays Queen Victoria in the historical reconstructions in this programme and reads from Queen Victoria's private diaries written late in life and unpublished until now.

Prunella Scales

(Self / Victoria)

Geoffrey Palmer

(Narrator)

Charles Dance

(Charles Greville)

Timothy West

(Thomas Creevey)

Richenda Carey

(Lady Wharncliffe)

Simeon Andrews

(Charles Locock)

Charlie Hayes

(Young Victoria)

Tom Allen

(Young Albert)

Emma Sackville

(Child Victoria)

Geoffrey Bayldon

(Henry Ponsonby)

Christopher Benjamin

(Lord Stanley)

Patrick Godfrey

(Lord Clarendon)

Robert Lang

(Lord Halifax)

Hugh Lloyd

(Randall Davidson, Duke of Windsor)

David Ryall

(Henry James)

Andrew Sachs

(Benjamin Disraeli)

Timothy Walker

(Wilfred Scawen Blunt)

Saul David

(Self)

Denis Healey

(Self)

Ken Howie

(Self)

Tristram Hunt

(Self)

Lucinda Lambton

(Self)

Venetia Murray

(Self)

Michaela Reid

(Self)

Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha

(Self)

Sir Roy Strong

(Self)

Richard Betts

(Albert (uncredited))

Anna Fiertag

(Baroness Lehzen (uncredited))

Tatiana Lavrentieva

(Russian countess (uncredited))