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The QueenA groundbreaking drama documentary examiningthe social history of Britain through the key eventsin the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
This 5 part series tells the incredible story of the life of a monarch.
Five leading British actresses Samantha Bond, Susan Jameson, Diana Quick, Barbara Flynn, and Emilia Fox portray monarch Queen Elizabeth II at pivotal times in her life. Mixing dramatised scenes from behind palace doors with news archive and testimony from royal insiders, each episode focuses on turning points in the reign of Elizabeth II - a period of monumental social upheaval.
Actress Emilia Fox (Silent Witness) leads the line up to portray the Queen in 1955, as Princess Margarets affair with Group Captain Peter Townsend exploded into public view at the time of the coronation. Samantha Bond (Emma) stars as the Queen in the early 1970s when Britain came as close to being a republic as it ever has in modern times with civil unrest, IRA threats and a kidnap attempt on Princess Anne. Susan Jameson (New Tricks) takes on the hidden conflict (circa 1986) between the Queen and her first female Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, who set herself in opposition to Crown and Commonwealth over sanctions against South Africa, while 1992 focuses on the Queens Annus Horribilis with Barbara Flynn (Cranford). Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited, Kingdom) concludes the series in 2005 as the Queen - the ultimate survivor and pragmatist - ushered in the last chapters of her reign by eventually accepting Prince Charles marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles.
"Engaging and revealing" (UK Sunday Telegraph)
The Queen
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