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Given the unprecedented military and media operation needed to create this simulacrum of normality, the prince's assessment was just about right. The Windsors don't do normal. Their function is symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real...
...script is by Peter Morgan, who won a plethora of prizes for The Queen and The Last King of Scotland and the Broadway play Frost Nixon, so you might expect something more than the puffy costume drama you get. Justin Chadwick, the director, is from TV, and apparently thinks that extreme closeups are as telling on the big screen as the small. No question that Portman's and Johansson's faces merit microscopic attention, but the film has a cramped feeling that turns every urgent, conspiratorial confidence into an italicized shout. That's a shame, because the movie has some...
...English court of King Henry VIII, and how both come to bear his children though only one ascends the throne. Natalie Portman ’03 (“V for Vendetta”) gives one of her most convincing performances as Anne Boleyn, the coy but spirited queen who eventually loses her grip on Henry VIII (Eric Bana, “Munich”). Mary, played by Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation”), is Anne’s quiet and obedient younger sister—the other Boleyn girl—who goes unnoticed until...
...says that when his granny - Queen Elizabeth II to most people - told him the good news about Afghanistan, he felt "a bit of excitement, a bit of 'phew, finally get the chance actually to do the soldiering I wanted to do from ever since I joined.'" Now that's he's had a taste of real soldiering, anything else may seem like a real disappointment...
...Catholic Legacy Even before 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella vanquished Granada, the last stronghold of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, the Roman Catholic Church set a rigorous religious tone for Spain. For centuries, the Catholic faith - and the patriarchal family structure that it inspired - was the foundation of daily life from the hills of the Basque country to the Andalusian coastline. But the Spanish church was often an overbearing, sometimes repressive presence that brought the Inquisition and provided cover to Franco's fascist regime. Its influence was exemplified by the introduction of the Spanish Civil Code...