The Queen - The Life of a Monarch reviews (2009)

The Queen - The Life of a Monarch

2009

Overall rating: 3.5 out of 5

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All five episodes of the Channel 4 docudrama portraying different key episodes in the life of Queen Elizabeth II over the 50-year period from 1955 to 2005. Events dramatised in the series include the alliance of the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret with divorced older man Peter Townsend in 1955, the kidnap attempt in 1974 on the Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, the tensions between the Crown and Thatcher's government in 1986 over sanctions against South Africa, the infamous 'annus horribilis' of 1992 that saw the breakdown of the marriages of two of the Queen's sons, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, as well as a fire at Windsor Castle, and finally the marriage in 2005 of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

The Queen - The Life of a Monarch details

Format:	12 DVD
Starring:	Susan Jameson, Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Lisa Dillon, Diana Quick, Barbara Flynn, Barbara Flynn
Directors:	Edmund Coulthard, Marion Milne, Patrick Reams
Genres:	Drama, Television - BBC, British, Series/Miniseries
Studio:	4DVD