The Young Victoria

Poor Little Royal Girl: A Melancholy Monarch

In one portrait of the young Queen Victoria, the 18-year-old who ascended the British throne in 1837 and gave the Victorians their name, she sits in her coronation robes staring straight ahead with a somewhat glazed expression. Her arms are white and fashionably plump, her dress cream and splashed with gold. Her coronation robe, a massive ermine-and-red-velvet cloak, spills off her bared shoulders and onto the ground, creating a luxurious puddle. She looks a bit bored — heavy hangs the crown, or at least those opulent threads. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4479 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 18 dicembre 2009