MONARCHY:COMPLETE SERIES BY MONARCHY (DVD) [5 DISCS]

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: A 1,500-Year History of Power, Passion, and Glory; ; For more than a millennium, The British monarchy has successfully survived brutality, betrayal and bloodshed to emerge as the oldest functioning political institution in Europe. Starkey probes through the personalities of the men and women who wore the crown such as Anglo-Saxon king Offa, who ruled more like a Mafioso than a monarch, Henry VIII, who cultivated celebrity like a modern rock star, and Victoria who made the monarchy into the model of the middle-class morality. Starkey leads us to the very sites where history actually happened, like Hastings, Bosworth, the Tower of London and more.; In this captivating 16-part series, Starkey advances a unifying narrative- the dymanic tension between authoritarian order and rule by consent of the governed- that makes Britain unique among the world's nations.
• Cast: David Starkey, Tony Cottrell, Gerard Hayling, David Alder, Mark Gregory, Anna Burns, Gail Felton, Hywel George, Katy Finn-Bar, Jeremy Harvey, Gerard Cooke, James Hurst, Darrell Heath, Kate Lindesay, Shelley Morgan, Claire Jennings, Jeremy Towler, Nicholas Ward, Angela Kelly, George McCarthy, Nina Maffey, Georgina Rowe, Stuart Powell, Sean Francis George, Nigel Martin Davey, Duchess of Windsor, Duke of Windsor, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Mary, James Burge, David Wilson, Mary Cranitch, David Hutt
• Director: James Burge
• Runtime: 12:56
• Company: Athena
• Media Format: Series