The Story of Vickie

Original title: Mädchenjahre einer Königin

1954
1h 48m

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Romy Schneider and Adrian Hoven in The Story of Vickie (1954)

England, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, L... Read allEngland, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. She is to get married to a German prince Albert. But... Read allEngland, the 19th century. Young Victoria is crowned to be the queen of England. She aims to do her best in order to help her country prosper. However, the family and her trustful advisor, Lord Melbourne, plan marriage for her. She is to get married to a German prince Albert. But Victoria sees her future differently and decides to leave London for a few days. She goes... Read all

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Trivia
One year after this movie Ernst Marischka made his famous Sissi (1955) (the first part of a trilogy), which was also a romanticized biopic about the marriage of a monarch, about Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary. In both movies Romy Schneider played the lead. Peter Weck also appears in both movies.

Goofs
William Lamd, Lord Melbourne was Prime minister until 1841. In the movie he left this position before Queen Victoria's marriage.

Quotes
Dance Master: Note the spring in my step. Always natural, always natural. And the supple shape of the body, always natural. And the flowing body movements, natural, always natural.

Connections
Referenced in Sissi (1955)

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7/10

Romy Schneider Conquers Great Britain

In between saving the Austro-Hungarian Empire for her screen husband as Sissi, Romy Schneider took the time out to rule Great Britain in her own right. Here she humbly but effortlessly wins the hearts of all (except for her controlling mother, of course) with her fearless determination to read newspapers and do the right thing.

In order to put her off from interfering too much with their running things, her ministers decide to marry her off to Prince Albert, whom she has never met; she objects, as does Albert. Fortunately, G*d watches over fools and constitutional monarchs, and they are both hiding out in the slums of Windsor, where rough seafaring men play Stephen Foster tunes. It's a place they can meet cute and fall in love without interfering with the fiction that this was anything but a love-match in any version of reality.

It's another of the cream-puff costume dramas that Ernst Marischka wrote and directed Miss Schneider in. Here, various high-class locations around Vienna stand in for various high-class locations around Britain. The Austrian audiences must have lapped up the luxury after the devastation of two world wars over forty years.