By contrast, his brother Earnest is excellent. The difference is Coleman carried her part well, Hughes was all wrong. I suspect Hughes was included as eye candy for the ladies, and certainly as a man I found Jenna Coleman very nice to look at, so I don't begrudge them that. A better casting would have been Daniel Brühl who played Nikki Lauda in Rush, but there it is. But then Hughes tends to play sulky toy boys so it is hardly a surprise. Albert was an intense, prickly and stubborn man. Tom Hughes is simply dreadful as Albert, completely unconvincing. Melbourne and Peel are both very well done and the drama does what it should do, it breathes life into history. Not unexpected, but completely unprepared. They give a nice insight into an 18yo girl, totally protected and kept from everything except her family, suddenly dropped into the position of Queen of the most powerful country on the planet.
