Goofs for
The Young Victoria (2009) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: 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'.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In her opening speech to the Privy Council, the new Queen Victoria refers to herself as 'I' and 'me'. At the time, monarchs always referred to themselves with the royal plural 'we'.
  
  
• Factual errors: 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.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: 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.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the King's birthday party, wine flows up out of the glass and back into the bottle.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Victoria first meets Albert, she greets him and his companion with "Hello!" That word did not exist until the 1830s. The meeting takes place in 1836, but Victoria would have had little access to the popular press, where "hello" first appeared, so she likely would not have used it.
  
  
• Factual errors: When shots were fired at the carriage in which he and Victoria were traveling, Prince Albert was not injured. In the film, he appears to be seriously hurt.
  
  

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