Posted on 10/01/2020 11:07:47 AM PDT by NRx
First of 13 episodes of an ITV miniseries on the life of Britain's King Edward VII who lead the life of a playboy prince during his long wait for the throne only to become a well respected monarch following the death of his mother Queen Victoria. First broadcast in 1975 both Anne Crosby (Queen Victoria) and Timothy West in the title role garnered much critical acclaim.
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It’s a great series, with great acting.
But Edward VII agreed to the “reform” of the Parliament which effectively stripped the Lords of much of their ability to veto legislation; and also fostered
“gentlemen’s agreements” which forced Britain to enter WWI (there was no vote in Commons on the war, the Commons were simply informed they were at war).
Interesting. I’ve always been fascinated with Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The zenith of the British Empires power and prestige. Thanks for posting.
I watched this series too on YouTube. Other good ones are Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson (1971) and Fall of Eagles (1974) featuring Patrick Stewart as Lenin.
Under the British constitution (unwritten) the power to declare war lies with the sovereign, which is exercised only on the “advice” of his/her ministers. Once the cabinet voted for war, it was a done deal.
I always thought nobody can do such history like the British. Excellent acting. I Claudius and Upstairs Downstairs were the best!
Not the worst-written article I've ever seen, but Ms. Knapp needs to know that the past tense of "lead" (as in "to lead") is "led". "Lead" pronounced with the short "e" is the metal.
Gah! I'm such a grammar Nazi. Must be the horrendous trauma of learning on the time-travel thread that I'm SOL as far as going back in time and fixing all my mistakes. :-)
I hope this isn’t as “woke” as PBS’ “Victoria”.
Anything after Victoria is too sickening to watch.
I believe this one might also be found as Edward the King.
It is terrible how this is all happening. Saw trailer on something done on Emily Dickinson. Awful
Others good ones are Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974), The First Churchills (1969) and was, IIRC, the first series featured on Masterpiece Theatre, and The Onedin Line (1971 to 1980).
I bet they could do a good Anna Karenina if they already haven’t.
Loved-’Reilly, Ace of Spies’
No remake of War & Peace will ever come close to the spectacle of the Russian film version.
I recently started watching an earlier British TV series on the early Roman emperors called The Caesars. It's a lot like I, Claudius, but bot quite as fanciful. It is in black and white but still watchable.
The only sad thing about all of this is the BBC’s very short sighted policy during the 1960s up to about the early to mid 1970s that had all sorts of programs and performances taped over or destroyed in order to conserve videotapes and storage space. The Doctor Who episode recovery project being an interesting story about this.
American television stations did the same thing with their local programming. There was one locally-produced childrens’ television series in Chicago that ran for about 25 years...there’s maybe thirty minutes of known footage left of it today.
And then there was the horror story of the DuMont Network’s archive....
Wasn’t his first royal edict “Gentlemen...you may smoke!”?
When I referred to the Russian W&P I probably wasn’t clear enough. By 2019 they decided to remaster it, since there wasn’t even a single master print available. So they went out and found all of the best prints and assembled a final definitive best available collection of parts and crested a new, best available version that was released in Russian with English subtitles. A Blu Ray digital copy of that great classic, in 2.25:1 aspect ratio, that runs for a bit more than 7 hours is now available from Amazon for about $34.00
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