The Young Victoria (2009)

This movie has me hoping to read the memoirs of Queen Victoria. Did she really write letters this way? Was she as strong willed as portrayed? Having watched Mrs. Brown, it is interesting to note the rise so long before the decline...

However, the best part of this movie is not its youth, it is the love story between Albert and Victoria. From their first meeting, they were taken with each other. But not in the Romeo and Juliet sort of way that many first loves happen. The weight of their births may have contributed to these two people being mature beyond their years - both wise and aware of themselves and each other. I couldn't help thinking that this was the sort of love story I wanted to tell my daughters... not the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale of a woman needing a man to bring her to life, but of a man and a woman being one by encouraging each other to be whole.