Posted on 02/16/2018 2:55:05 AM PST by beaversmom
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I really loved that series, and was very sorry to see it end. I’m glad somebody’s put them up on YouTube for other folks to enjoy. They weren’t available on YouTube back when I first started downloading them.
The film Lady Jane with Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes was also quite good.
After ep 3, I started ep 1. What a mess. Arundel appears to have been the worst turncoat of his time (link above), but Northumberland's best move would have been to have the other heirs poisoned well before Edward's final illness. Oops. But, that's more of a Tudor approach. Had he been a Tudor, we'd all have learned about Queen Jane, no peep about Mary or Lizzie, or James for that matter. :^)
It's never ceased to amaze me the twisting and turning of peoples' loyalties. Once Arundel saw which way the wind was blowing, he hightailed it to Mary Tudor's side. And she accepted him.
The BBC4 series, re this article, is only available in the UK; however, we just might get it, here in the USA, on PBS or a cable channel, so watch for it.
I have been fascinated by this story for a very long time.
beaversmom kindly directed me to a YouTube showing of all three episodes. I haven’t watched them yet, but I so enjoy English Monarchy stories.
Is there any English production that does not feature Helena Bonham Carter. She is all over Brit movies, and some American ones. I love her.
Thanks for the information. I’ll be sure to pay attention to PBS...we don’t get BBC4...Hopefully, they’ll be showing more.
I hate it that irreversable demographics are about to catch up with Great Britain in the form of low birth rates for native stock and high birth rates and immigration rates for immigrants.
Within our lifetime, the balance will tilt, and one of the cultures that formed the modern world and bastion of Western Civilization will disappear..
I have no doubts that all the traces such as monuments and statuary and art will also disappear.
When I was 8, or so, I read a book that my mother had had as a child, called THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF EUROPE. It was a fascinating book and sparked my imagination. So I have studied this topic further, ever since then. And yes, Lady Jane< was in that book.
If you're interested in movies about the Brit Monarchy and would like a list, just drop me a note via FRmail and I'll give you a list of the ones I have seen.
wow, she looks just like a modern person.
My pleasure.
And he was involved in other plots later, quite a character.
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