Victoria, Princess Royal - Portrayal in Film and Television

Portrayal in Film and Television

She has been portrayed in a number of film and television productions since her death. Perhaps the most notable was in 1975 when Felicity Kendal played Vicky in Edward the Seventh, including the scenes during her final months when the character was 60 years but Kendal was only in her 29th year. Other portrayals include Gemma Jones (Fall of Eagles, 1974) and Ruth Hellberg (Bismarck), 1940 as well as Catherine Punch (Bismarck, 1990). While she is portrayed as a naive English princess in the Bismarck films, the new German film Vicky - die vergessene Kaiserin ("The Forgotten Empress", in preproduction), tries to show her in a different light.

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