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Title Queen Victoria's children / Blakeway for BBC ; series producer, Lucy McDowell ; BBC Worldwide Sales and Distribution.

Publication Info. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  DVD 941.082 QUE    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (186 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital video stereo rda
videodisc
DVD
video file DVD rda
Videorecording
Series Royal collection ; [1]
Royal collection ; [1]
System Details DVD, widescreen ; Dolby Digital stereophonic.
Language Optional English SDH subtitles.
Performer Narrator, Nicholas Rowe.
Credits Camera, Rob Goldie, WIll Edwards, Peter Harvey.
Note Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program on the BBC Network in 2013.
Summary A three-part series exploring the reign of Queen Victoria through her husband Albert, the Prince Consort, and the lives of her children. By telling the stories of the personal relationships between Victoria, her husband, and their nine children, it looks for a fresh understanding of the longest reigning Queen and the nature of the British monarchy.
Contents The best laid plans (62 min.) / directed by Lucy McDowell -- A domestic tyrant (62 min.) / director, Rebecca Burrell -- Princes will be princes (62 minutes) / produced and directed by Richard Sanders.
Summary The best laid plans: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared a passionate marriage. Behind closed doors, royal domestic life often seemed like a battlefield. Examined here is Victoria's tempestuous relationship with Prince Albert, their attempts to engineer the upbringing of their children and to save the monarchy by projecting a modern image of the Royal family.
A domestic tyrant: This episode explores how, after Albert's death, Victoria clung to and bullied her daughters and arranged their marriages. In response, the princesses fought back, becoming independent women determined to find love and fresh purpose. From sculpture to medicine, the daughters became champions of women for a new era.
Princes will be princes: After Albert's death, Victoria's sons struggled to live up to their father's model of purity. This episode focuses on Victoria's difficult relationship with her eldest son Bertie, the Prince of Wales, whom she blamed for Albert's death, believing his sexual indiscretions to have fatally weakened her husband. Ultimately, the idea of monarchy based on purity is put to the test as the philandering Bertie comes to the throne.
Subject Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Family.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Children -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901. (OCoLC)fst00031183
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Kings and rulers -- Children. (OCoLC)fst00987698
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1837 - 1901
Genre/Form History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author McDowell, Lucy.
Burrell, Rebecca.
Sanders, Richard.
Rowe, Nicholas, 1966-
British Broadcasting Company.
BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Blakeway Productions.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Standard No. 883929333387
Music No. 3000050453 Warner Home Video
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