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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 12:13:22 GMT
I must confess I hadn't clocked Lord Melbourne's wife as the scandalous Lady Caroline Lamb - as performed by Sarah Miles in the film about her affair with Byron - until I read your link, Miranda. I know there were a couple of mentions of her dalliance with Byron in Victoria, but I didn't make the link, just thought of her as Lady Melbourne in a shadowy sort of way.
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Post by vicky on Sept 6, 2016 12:23:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 20:09:46 GMT
Rufus Sewell is such a terrific actor it makes me wonder why Hollywood has never tried to poach him.
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Post by lugsbug on Sept 6, 2016 23:04:57 GMT
I remember him in Cold Comfort Farm - marvellous!
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Post by marion on Sept 12, 2016 10:15:10 GMT
Well I am not very keen on this Albert. Bit of a bore IMHO. I rather thought they had "toned down" Lord M a bit this week. He seemed a bit older and in the background, so that the glorious Rufus did not overshadow our hero. I know they have to keep things moving, but it seemed that relations between V&A improved extremely quickly because he was a bit of a git at first and she really didn't like him. Within about ten minutes she had,proposed!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 15:50:44 GMT
I think this was done rather better, (the proposal) in the ancient ITV series Edward VII with Annette Crosbie as Victoria.
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Post by vicky on Sept 17, 2016 17:04:43 GMT
I think this was done rather better, (the proposal) in the ancient ITV series Edward VII with Annette Crosbie as Victoria. That was an excellent series. I think Timothy West was Edward. |
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Post by technicolour on Sept 17, 2016 19:40:51 GMT
I think this was done rather better, (the proposal) in the ancient ITV series Edward VII with Annette Crosbie as Victoria. I thought they were already married with little Vicky a baby when the series started?! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 10:43:53 GMT
P'raps my memory is playing me false.
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Post by pearl06 on Sept 19, 2016 5:30:54 GMT
Rufus Sewell is such a terrific actor it makes me wonder why Hollywood has never tried to poach him. They have! He is the lead baddie in an Amazon Prime series called The Man in the High Castle. It is very good and is about what would it would be like if the Germans and Japanese had won WW2. They divide America up with the Germans controlling the east two-thirds and the Japanese the remaining third in the west. Rufus Sewell plays the German Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith! Series 2 starts in December. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2016 20:27:51 GMT
I've been enjoying this, even though some of the history is a bit dodgy. I suspect Victoria is a bit more sympathetic than in real life. I don't see much of the fierce passion the royal couple shared. Her relationship with Wellington needs to improve, too - as I understood it she was extremely close to him, and he acted as godfather to at least one of her children. Well written as entertainment, though, and an excellent cast. Not sure the below stairs stuff is really necessary, though.
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Post by marion on Sept 22, 2016 12:26:07 GMT
What I cannot understand about the downstairs staff is how scruffy and rough some of them are! I mean this is the Sovereign's household FGS. Mr Penge or whatever his name is, looks a right scruff to me. Carson he ain't!!!
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Post by pearl06 on Sept 22, 2016 14:09:44 GMT
Or even Thomas!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 11:10:44 GMT
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Post by sootycat on Sept 23, 2016 11:30:15 GMT
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Anymore to come?
