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December 2010
Wow, I have 100 followers!
Thanks so much for your support.
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Part five: Bertie and his parents.
I’ve already gone over psychonanny, and that situation certainly did not put the parenting of King George V and Queen Mary in the best light. The problem was that Georgie and May just weren’t cut out to be parents. Perhaps in different circumstances, or if they’d had less kids, things would have been better. But as it was, May regarded pregnancy and childbirth as her “punishment for being a woman”...
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fuckyeahorsonwelleskane asked: Loving the King's Speech posts! Will absolutely be making tea and toast before I check my dash tomorrow. Must have proper snacks for Windsor story time.
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Part four: Bertie and Elizabeth
One of the things this movie got right was the relationship between Bertie and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was the woman behind the man, and a complete HBIC in her own right. They also had a very close marriage, and it was a love match.
Bertie and Elizabeth first met at a children’s party when he was ten and she was five. They were served cake with cherries on it, and Elizabeth pulled off her cherries...
fuckyeahorsonwelleskane asked: Loving the King's Speech posts! Will absolutely be making tea and toast before I check my dash tomorrow. Must have proper snacks for Windsor story time.
More on The King's Speech tomorrow.
Tomorrow I’ll go into some of the little facts and quotes mentioned in the movie that were true. We can also go into some things that weren’t. Like what George V’s actual last words were, and how Bertie and Lionel really met. I’ll also go into Bertie’s relationships with his parents, older brother, wife, and children. And the rest of the mistakes about the Abdication...
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Part three: Psychonanny
One of the more shocking parts of Bertie’s back story both in the film and real life was psychonanny, real name Mary Peters. Yes, she was real, and is a fairly important part of the story of the House of Windsor. I’ve gotten inquiries about her, and when I saw the movie people in the theater actually gasped when she was mentioned.
Of the royal children, David and Bertie were the only ones who got...
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Part two: The Timeline
The other major inaccuracy in the film was something the director himself admitted to. The timeline was all wrong. Bertie was undergoing most of his treatments with Logue in the late ‘20’s. In the film Bertie starts seeing him in 1934. In real life, it was about nine years earlier in the immediate aftermath of his speech at the British Empire Exhibition. Of course, in the film, events were changed...
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Part one: Churchill and Edward VIII
I’m dealing with this first, because this was to me the worst inaccuracy in the whole movie. There was very little in this movie that I felt could genuinely increase the ignorance of the average royal fangirl. Except for this.
In the movie, Churchill is shown being concerned about Edward VIII being King. One scene in particular has him telling Bertie he should be on the throne, and should be...
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The King’s Speech: Fact, fiction, and the real...
So, I finally saw The King’s Speech. The snow had cleared up a bit and there was less ice on the roads so it was finally safe to go out. For now, I’m not going to go into my opinion of the movie as a whole. Since it’s still fresh in my mind, instead I’ll go into the historical details behind it. I’m going to write about the inaccuracies a bit, as well as expanding upon some of the things mentioned...
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson on BBC Radio →
I really loved the concept, though of course it was totally overdramatic and inaccurate. It tells the story of Wallis’s final years when she lost her marbles and her lawyer kept her bedridden in her room. I’ll have to do some sort of article or post on that. It’s really a bizarre story.
But the ending was creepy as hell. With the voices and stuff… Shit gave me chills.
The...
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fuckyeahorsonwelleskane asked: Can you recommend any great George VI biographies? Have you read Sarah Bradford's? Obviously I'm looking for one as unbiased as possible...so much of what I've read has been bogged down with Wallis vs Elizabeth. George barely makes an appearance! blahh
fuckyeahorsonwelleskane asked: Can you recommend any great George VI biographies? Have you read Sarah Bradford's? Obviously I'm looking for one as unbiased as possible...so much of what I've read has been bogged down with Wallis vs Elizabeth. George barely makes an appearance! blahh
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Story time!
Louis Mountbatten was in Sweden visiting his sister Queen Louise. Louis and Louise (their dad was named Louis and he had quite the ego…) went to visit a Cathedral and meet with the Archbisop, who was eager to show off his English.
He took them through the Cathdral, showing them the stained glass windows, sacred grails, and other historic objects. Then, he took them to a chest of drawers....
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“In our family, we don’t have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then...”
– Princess Margaret
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“In our family, we don’t have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then...”
– Princess Margaret
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“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how...”
– Diana, Princess of Wales (and Queen of Hearts)
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“Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to...”
– Prince Charles
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“Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to...”
– Prince Charles
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Damn Daily Fail, why you hating on Zara? →
Zara Philips doesn’t get manicures; Kate Middleton does. Watch the Daily Fail turn this into 657 words.
I’m imagining the Daily Fail columnist brainstorming with her assistant about what her royal story will be.
“Hey, is it just me or are Kate’s nails more shiny than Zara’s?”
“It’s just you.”
“How about I turn this into a story...
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The Daily Fail fails again →
I’m thinking of doing a regular segment on FYVR where I go on the Daily Fail and write about what they’ve fucked up now.
“A new film tells of George VI’s stammer, but it reveals nothing of the seething hatred between him and his brother Edward VIII”
Seething hated? Really Daily Fail? This is an epic fail even for you. Do they call it “seething hatred”...
