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A dramatic portrait of one of the world’s most powerful women.

Elizabeth Windsor rose to the throne in 1952 and has been Queen of the United Kingdom ever since. She has reigned over turbulent times. Social upheavals, cash problems, civil unrest, and family woes have challenged her spirit, her principles, and her resolve.

This five-part British series blends dramatized scenes behind palace doors with documentary footage and new interviews with royal insiders. Five top British actresses portray the queen at pivotal moments in her reign from 1955 to 2005: Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Samantha Bond (GoldenEye), Susan Jameson (New Tricks), Barbara Flynn (Cracker), and Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited). Biographers, journalists, government officials, palace staff, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury share insights and memories from a half-century reign. Groundbreaking and provocative, The Queen reveals the monarch as you’ve never seen her before.

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No woman in the Western world has lived through, or helped shape history, as much as has Queen Elizabeth II of England. As the British Empire began to readjust to the landscape after World War II, and as society's beliefs about royalty and its role in public policy shifted, Queen Elizabeth was there to lead her subjects--yet to reveal very little about herself. The Queen, a creative and illuminating British miniseries, mixes documentary footage, current interviews with historians and friends and observers of the royal family, and dramatic fictionalized scenes "based on research" to attempt to paint a fuller portrait of the ubiquitous, but enigmatic, monarch. For anyone interested in the history of England or Europe, and for fans of royalty especially, The Queen makes for a mesmerizing, educational, and entertaining several hours--best broken up into several sittings. The historic footage is well used and goes back to the childhood of the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, the latter apparently "very naughty and out for a good time" even as a child, before her bad-girl ways would create the young queen's first crisis of the throne. The Queen breaks the life of the monarch into five segments.

In the first, Emilia Fox (Pride and Prejudice, Silent Witness) plays Elizabeth, suddenly made queen at age 25 upon the death of her father. The frisky Margaret is played by Katie McGrath, who resembles a dewy Kate Winslet. Elizabeth is forced to confront an inappropriate relationship that Margaret has with a divorced member of the palace staff--and the sisters' own relationship would never be the same. Segment 2 focuses on the 1960s and '70s (with Elizabeth being played by the excellent Samantha Bond), when change is in the air and popularity of the monarchy falls to historic lows. The third segment fast-forwards to the fascinating Margaret Thatcher years, and the prickly relationship between the queen (played by Susan Jameson) and the prime minister (Lesley Manville, quite believable). Episode 4 follows the queen (Barbara Flynn of Cranford), her adult children, and the wretched angst that would cloud them--the divorce first of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York, and then the tabloid fodder that was the divorce of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the entry into the royal circle of Camilla Parker-Bowles. Finally, Diana Quick (Brideshead Revisited) plays the queen in the early 2000s, with the deaths of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, and the inevitable marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla. The overall portrait by The Queen of Queen Elizabeth may still feel as though it has holes--she is one of the world's most public and most private women at the same time--but fans of history and Queen Elizabeth will learn of the depths and triumphs of this amazing woman. --A.T. Hurley

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