Who plays Albert’s brother in Victoria?

I play Prince Ernest, the older brother of Prince Albert. He is a cad, bounder, socialist, philanthropist, explorer, composer, and bon vivant. The opposite of Albert, who was more reserved. And he lived almost as long as Victoria herself.

He was loved within his Dukedom and integral in the unification of Germany. He had operas performed in New York, and supposedly had more sexually transmitted complications than you could wave a mercury-lined stick at. What a charmer!

Who plays Albert’s brother in Victoria?

David Oakes is a British actor who plays Prince Ernest (Prince Albert’s brother) in the new ITV drama Victoria. David is no stranger to playing historical characters, having previously starred in The White Queen and The Living and the Dead.

Oakes began his career at Shakespeare’s Globe, before taking roles at the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic. Since appearing at Shakespeare’s Globe at the outset of his career, Oakes has frequently performed in numerous rehearsed readings as part of their “Read Not Dead” initiative, including their landmark 200th reading of Philip Massinger’s A New Way To Pay Old Debts; Oakes played Wellborn alongside a cast including Benjamin Whitrow, Alan Cox, and Nicholas Rowe.