My Dearest Angel: The Marriage Behind the Crown
On December 21, 1963, BBC listeners settled in for My Dearest Angel, R. F. Delderfield’s portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert—an 81-minute drama broadcast as part of The Sunday Play.
But beneath the monarchy, ceremony and history is something much more intimate: a marriage.
In this episode of The Common Room, we return to Delderfield’s play and ask what happens when Victoria the Queen becomes Victoria the wife, and Albert the Prince Consort becomes simply Albert the husband.
How much of their relationship is history, and how much is Delderfield’s dramatic imagination? Why does the…
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