![]() ![]() ![]() But there is much to enjoy here, nonetheless. Her final years are more familiar and thus less intriguing, while the conclusion that she will remain “an enigma” feels limp. ![]() The 1950s and 1960s are intriguingly posited as a time when the tightrope walk of personal and professional responsibilities felt especially precarious, her many tours of duty creating the impression of an absent mother fly-on-the-wall series The Royal Family was a response effective enough to alarm the Queen into withdrawing the footage. Beginning with a childhood whose relative seclusion was made possible by the unlikelihood of her ever ascending the throne, it takes us through the war years, in which she was successfully repositioned as a princess of the people, through to the televised Coronation which appeared to present the perfect marriage of tradition and modernity. While it proves impossible to condense the extraordinary life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Shaw’s film assembles some experienced pundits and excellent footage to scrutinise the relationship between the late Queen and her public over her 96 years. ![]()
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