What language does prince albert speak?
This is a very good question. I came away from the movie “Young Victoria”with the feeling that much of the dialogue in the movie, in reality, would have taken place in German, particularly between Victoria and her mother (of Saxe Coburg) and between Victoria and Albert. Generally a mother passes her first language to her children and I doubt that would be different in this case, particulary when a German-speaking (half) aunt and maids were prominent in Victoria’s early years. And frankly – all that English between Leopold and Victoria’s cousins in Belgium and Saxony, is fantasy stuff. It wouldn’t happen now and English didn’t have its current prestige in the 1830s.
