“The Young Victoria” Producer Visits Houston

The evening is still young inside of Neiman Marcus at the Galleria. Everything seems normal inside this department store, customers browsing the jewelry cases and strolling through clothing racks, when suddenly they all seem to balk. Cell phones come out from purses and pictures are snapped as Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, makes a beeline through the store.

The duchess was is town for a tea party to commemorate the re-release of Clive Christian’s “X,” “1872” and “Clive” fragrances.

As the only perfumery allowed to replicate Queen Victoria’s crown, the resurgence of the perfume came when Clive and his daughter, Victoria, found an original bottle sealed underneath their home’s floorboards. With the original ingredients blended for the box set, the fragrant elixir’s debut coincides with the release of, “The Young Victoria,” a film that the duchess produced.

“It’s extraordinary,” gushes the Royal about her producer’s credit. “I was just looking at… [the movie poster], thinking what an incredible life and how lucky and privileged I am to say, I’m a producer in a Hollywood movie.”

The perfume plays an integral part in the biopic. The well-chronicled correspondence between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was laced in the fragrance.

“It’s a contemporary love story,” says the duchess, “it’s about what you can learn from a beautiful lady that fought for her love and won.” Queen Victoria’s marriage produced nine children and twenty-two grandchildren, her reign of over 63 years, is the longest of any monarch to date.

“The Young Victoria,” staring Emily Blunt, opens on December 18.