Queen Victoria (Pauline Collins) consults Sir Robert MacLeish (Derek Riddell).
The . rst volume of the ‘German Legends’ collected by famous folklorists the Brothers Grimm in 1816.
At 11m 29s, Queen Victoria describes how Sir Robert McLeish’s father had excited her late husband Albert with a local legend regarding a wolf. A lost line had her quoting Bavarian native Albert: “The German forests are rife with stories, creatures of the night, and so forth…”