Letter surfaces telling how Queen’s ancestor escaped the marriage from hell
Wendy Moore’s book Wedlock, which tells the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, is available from Amazon.com.
The Sex Pistols, a ’70s British punk band, were infamous for their anti-monarchy song God Save the Queen, but now singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) reportedly "would like to make a documentary showing the 'good side' of the royal family."
Above: Johnny Rotten performing with The Sex Pistols in 1976. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images. Photo provided by PicApp)
“I think England without royalty would be a much sadder country,” the singer/actress said in an interview with Parade Magazine.
First posted in November 2009:
Colin Firth will play Britain’s King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter will play his wife, Queen Elizabeth (the future Queen Mother), in the WW II-era drama “The King’s Speech.”
2010 UPDATE
A Daily Mail article with some photos from the movie’s set:
A majestic opportunity as glory beckons for King Colin the Firth
British caricaturist James Gillray’s “scathing satires of royalty, leading politicians and the French elite terrified his targets… The Prince Regent, later George IV, tried to buy as many copies as possible to take them out of circulation.”
Some of James Gillray’s cartoons are available at Wikimedia Commons. That’s where I found the famous illustration below, “The Plumb-Pudding in Danger,” which depicts British Prime Minister William Pitt and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte carving up the world. According to Wikimedia, this image is in the public domain.
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