Paul Bettany credited as playing...
Lord Melbourne
- Lord Melbourne: Your Highness, there's your opening if you'll take my advice...
- Prince Albert: Lord Melbourne, forgive me but you seem to have confused me with a member of your club. I am not your drinking companion nor your whist partner. I am the husband of your sovereign. And as such, I will make my own decisions, and I neither seek nor invite your advice. Good evening.
- Queen Victoria: I do want to help them, whatever you say. And not just the laboring poor, but the hungry and the homeless, and... There are people who are lost, and whose business is it to see to their welfare?
- Lord Melbourne: Well, in my experience, ma'am, it's best to let these things develop naturally. If you interfere, you risk overturning the cart.
- Queen Victoria: Well, Prince Albert doesn't agree. He's made a study of the working man's condition, he's full to the brim with ideas for their improvement.
- Lord Melbourne: Is he indeed? How inspiring.
- Duchess of Sutherland: Look at that demure little head. And all of us wondering what's inside it.
- Lord Melbourne: We'll find out soon enough.