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{{Infobox play
| name = Victoria Regina
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| writer = [[Laurence Housman]]
| characters = [[Queen Victoria]]<br />[[Albert, Prince Consort]]<br />[[Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]]
| setting =
| premiere =
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'''''Victoria Regina''''' is a 1934 play by [[Laurence Housman]] about [[Queen Victoria]], staged privately in London in 1935, produced on Broadway in 1935, and given its British public premiere in 1937.
 
==Plot==
{{No plot|date=November 2021}}
 
==Background==
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*[[Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld|Duchess of Kent]] – Irma Cioba
*[[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] – Pamela Stanley
*[[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] – [[Carl Esmond]]
*[[Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince Ernest]] – [[Albert Lieven]]
*Mr Anson – John Garside
*Lady Muriel – Pamela CarmeHenry-May
*Lady Grace – Frances Clare
*Lady in Waiting – Enid Lindsey
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==Broadway==
 
The play was staged three times on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], New York, between 1935 and 1937, twice at the [[Broadhurst Theatre|Broadhurst]] and in 1938 at the [[Martin Beck Theatre|Martin Beck]]. All three productions featured [[Helen Hayes]] as Victoria. A twenty-four year old [[Vincent Price]] enjoyed his appearance as Prince Albert in the Broadhurst productions.<ref>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/victoria-regina-9089 "Victoria Regina"], IBDB. Retrieved 13 July 2020</ref> &nbsp;Hayes as Victoria was recorded on radio onin aan episode of ''[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|The Campbell Playhouse]]''.
 
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[[Category:British plays adapted into films]]
[[Category:1934 plays]]
[[Category:CulturalPlays depictions ofdepicting Queen Victoria]]
[[Category:Broadway plays]]
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[[Category:Cultural depictions of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Benjamin Disraeli]]