Goofs

When Victoria is lying on her bed remembering her chess game with Albert, his hair is combed up to the right. Then it's shown combed up to the left (as in the rest of the film shots).

In the coronation scene around the middle of the film, Queen Victoria is seated on the throne receiving homage and holding nothing in her hands. In the next shot, she is seated on St. Edward's Chair, holding two scepters.

At King William IV's birthday celebration, when Princess Victoria is presented to King William, she curtsies twice to the king; before the exchange between Lord Melbourne and the Duchess of Sutherland, and again after the exchange.

The closing titles say "Victoria and Albert reigned" for a number of years. Only Queen Victoria reigned; Albert did not have this job description, as the "Thank you for reminding me..." speech shows. No husband and wife ever reigned over England together except William III and Mary II in the late 17th century.

When Victoria is notified that she has become queen, the date shown is June 18, 1837. In real life, Queen Victoria succeeded on June 20, 1837.

In the film, Victoria and Melbourne are portrayed as similar in age, apparently to hint at a flirtation between them. Melboune was 38 years older than Queen Victoria, and acted as something of a father figure to the young monarch.

In the opening coronation sequence, the Archbishop of Canterbury anoints Victoria by dipping the first two fingers of his right hand into the chrism (holy oil). Anointings are done with the thumb only.

The King pushes for a marriage between Victoria and her cousin George. In real life, William wanted Victoria to marry Prince Alexander, the son of King Willem II of The Netherlands.

After Victoria is woken up to be told she is Queen she walks up the stairs and looks in the mirror. When she does this, one of her eyes blinks but the other doesn't.

Throughout the film, Lord Melbourne is pronounced 'Mel-burn', like the Australian city. The title of Viscount Melbourne is derived from Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire, and pronounced 'Mel-born'. The other way did not come to be spoken until much later.

When Albert is given a portrait of Victoria for the first time, she is depicted in a white dress, with a tiara set vertically in her bun. By convention, unmarried women, royals included, do not wear tiaras until, at least, betrothed, more usually, married. That specific portrait was done in 1842, two years after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were married. Furthermore, Albert designed the tiara in her hair especially for Victoria.

Throughout Albert and Victoria's courtship, many characters speak to Albert about Germany, which is spoken of as his nationality. Germany was a cultural region, not a unified country, until 1871, more than 30 years later. Albert's nationality would have been spoken of as Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, not Germany.

Early in the film there is a mention of the Liberal Party. At the time this political group was called the Whig Party. It changed name to Liberal Party in 1868.

Twentieth-century hot water baseboard heaters are visible in several interior palace scenes. They are especially obvious when Victoria explains that the palace is so cold due to disagreements amongst the palace staff as to who should lay and maintain the hearth fires.

When Victoria meets the princes for the first time, the dog follows them out to the garden. You can hear the dog's nails clicking across the floor, even when the dog stops in the middle of the room.

About 6 minutes into the film, a scene with the subtitle "Rosenau Castle, Coburg, Germany" shows snow-covered mountains in the background. The closest snow-covered mountains to Coburg are the Bavarian Alps, 350km away.

Albert and his brother Ernest live in Saxe-Coburg. In real life, the brothers and their household had moved to the University of Bonn by April 1837.

When Albert and Victoria have their first waltz, they slow down and stop at one point before resuming. The other dancers continue while this is happening. In reality, royal protocol would dictate that the other dancers stop whenever the queen stopped dancing. **It's possible that this scene wasn't intended to be taken literally, but as a way of showing that the couple was lost in each other, their world figuratively stopping while everyone else's goes on as usual.**

Leopold I tells Stockmar "I am the youngest son of a penniless duke". Leopold's father, Francis, was the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and hardly penniless. He was also not the youngest son; Franz Maximilian Ludwig, who lived just 22 days, was born two years after Leopold.