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On 28 April 1876, Leopold is the orphaned and impoverished 3rd Duke of Albany, living in New York City with his uncle, Millard Mountbatten, under the care of the butler by the name of Otis. Conversant with the arts and sciences, he has designed and modelled a prototype Otis elevator , but Uncle Millard exhorts him to return to reality and marry ...
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In 1876, Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Gareth Thomas Mountbatten, Duke of Albany and future inventor of the elevator, is a stifled dreamer. Strict Uncle Millard (Paxton Whitehead) has no patience for Leopold's disrespect for the monarchy, chastising him and telling him he must marry a rich American, as the Mountbatten family finances are depleted.
Dec 25, 2001 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Kate & Leopold" is a preposterous time-travel romance in which the third Duke of Albany leaves the New York of 1876 and arrives in the New York of Meg Ryan.
Leopold is the Duke of Albany but is too honorable a man to make up a story about his origins. In addition, since Leopold left his time before he invented the elevator, all the elevators in New York start malfunctioning.
Elevators. The moment the Duke hits the fissure, the elevator in which Kate is riding pauses and resumes. Thereafter, every elevator in New York is reported to be out of order, with elevator maintenance companies running themselves ragged trying to determine what is wrong with them.
Dec 25, 2001 · As Leopold, the dashing third duke of Albany and the world's most eligible bachelor in 1876, Mr. Jackman is as perfect a specimen of romance-novel dreaminess as Hollywood has concocted in...
Leopold, Duke of Albany, has always been a bit ahead of his time. While of royal British lineage (transplanted to New York by the 1870s), he’s not satisfied with the life he’s been assigned. And so he dabbles in science and invention (he’s destined to design the modern elevator).
