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[#175969]
Written by: puttaren [07/02/12, 07:05] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/06/tonights-tv-pick-the-diamond-queen_n_1256896.html  Not my cup of tea. The British monarchy isn't really as exciting as one might think. |
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[#175970]
Written by: BoonesFerry (Moderator) [07/02/12, 07:42] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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tvrage.com/shows/id-30718 Classification: Documentary Genre: Celebrities | Family | Lifestyle Status: New Series Network: BBC One ( United Kingdom) Airs: Mondays at 09:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes Premiere: February 06, 2012 The Diamond Queen is a documentary series which takes looks at the life and achievements of The Queen as she is about to celebrate 6o years on the throne. Andrew Marr looks back at the young girl who never expected to reign over us. 1x01 -- Episode 1 (Feb/06/2012) The series takes a look at The Queen’s grandfather, father and mother and the impact of the abdication. The series also explores the Queen's relationship with the Government. 1x02 -- Episode 2 (Feb/13/2012) This week Andrew takes a look at The Queen’s efforts to modernise the monarchy over the last 60 years. 1x03 -- Episode 3 (Feb/20/2012) Andrew takes a closer look at the defining moments of The Queen's reign, starting with her accession to the throne in 1952 and her Coronation 16 months later. -------------------------------- huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/06/tonights-tv-pick-the-diamond-queen_n_1256896.html As the Queen marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne, now seems a fitting time to take stock of what she's achieved since becoming Queen Elizabeth II at just 25 years old. Tonight, in the first episode of a >>>three-part<<< documentary exploring her life and achievements, Andrew Marr is given the best access, short of actually sitting down with the monarch, to see what she's really like. In Diamond Queen, he hears from other members of the royal family, including Prince William, Prince Harry, Prince Edward and Princess Anne, who reveal some of the nifty skills she's picked up from decades of walkabouts, state visits and receptions. Marr also chats to David Cameron, Tony Blair and John Major - just three of the 12 prime ministers during her reign - who have nothing but admiration for Her Majesty. Since the age of 10 she's known she would become Queen and her life since 1952 has been filled with duty, routine, reading and ritual, but Marr, writing on the Radio Times website says: "I found very many people - politicians, civil servants, friends of the family - talking at length about how witty the Queen is. "But I noticed that when I asked for examples, they tended to tell me what they had said to her, before sitting back with a pleased beam." |
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[#175982]
Written by: gallileo [07/02/12, 11:26] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Interesting Documentary inside the British Monarchy......nice to watch the Queen in today's world. Can't wait for the remaining 2 episodes. |
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[#175999]
Written by: gust [07/02/12, 18:57] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Absolutely! Thanks for the upload people. |
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[#176005]
Written by: phish73 [07/02/12, 21:38] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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the monarchy system is dead, who cares about this pompous old bag with her nose pointed so high you can see every nook and cranny. not to mention her racist husband. Thanks anyway for the release, i just hope no one downloads this. |
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[#176014]
Written by: Uberlime [08/02/12, 00:05] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Yea, couldn't wait for this to finally be released! I'm since watching it in loop, not eating nor pooping (i may have to admit to a dusty fart here & then). (irony/off) Happy accession birthday ! Oh& btw phish73, the monarchy system freaks you up the arzt. U is the dead thing, not monarchy, not any system, so grow ur balls up & put your hopes in interesting, valuable, mattering things plz thx. |
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[#176020]
Written by: lalez [08/02/12, 01:10] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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i hear you ... monarchy is an antiquated system and all but most european monarchies are at least working with a parliament as opossed to islamic or better arabic monarchy systems and i am sorry that you feel the queen is pompous and arrogant, if you were in her position i am betting you wouldnt do it with the same grace lastly please explain to me why her husband is a racist?( i might have missed the media mishap) |
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[#176044]
Written by: daveyboy85 [08/02/12, 11:06] Action: [ Reply ] [ Quote ] |
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Prince Phillip has come out with many, many things over the years which are racist, sexist and pretty much all the other ists at some point. The following are from The Mirror back in June last year:- 1 After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002: “Are we going to need ear plugs?” 2 To a car park attendant who didn’t recognise him in 1997, he snapped: “You bloody silly fool!” 3To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.” 4To female sea cadet last year: “Do you work in a strip club?” 5 To expats in Abu Dhabi last year: “Are you running away from something?” 6 After accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991: “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” 7 At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965, he said: “Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don’t you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?’” 8 To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?” 9To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!” 10 His description of Beijing, during a visit there in 1986: “Ghastly.” 11 At Hertfordshire University, 2003: “During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, ‘More open than usual’. I now declare this place more open than usual.” 12 To deaf children by steel band, 2000: “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.” 13 To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.” 14To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?” 15 His verdict on Stoke-on-Trent, during a visit in 1997: “Ghastly.” 16To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.” 17Peering at a fuse box in a Scottish factory, he said: “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” He later backtracked: “I meant to say cowboys.” 18To Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.” 19 In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.” 20“I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff.” 1987 21On the Duke of York’s house, 1986: “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.” 22 Using Hitler’s title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1997, he called him: “Reichskanzler.” 23“We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.” 1969. 24 At party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!” 25To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.” 26To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.” 27 On the 1981 recession: “A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.” 28 On the new £18million British Embassy in Berlin in 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.” 29After Dunblane massacre, 1996: “If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?” 30 To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002: “If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.” 31 On stress counselling for servicemen in 1995: “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!” 32On Tom Jones, 1969: “It’s difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.” 33 To the Scottish WI in 1961: “British women can’t cook.” 34 To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.” 35 To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” There are another 55 of these if you want to read anymore. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-philip-quotes-relive-90-133848 |
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