#Princess Documentary

[thewindsorindex]

Royal Documentaries/Films; 2025

King Charles & Queen Camilla

1️⃣ Netflix: King Charles III and Idris Elba are teaming up for a new documentary marking 50 years of The King’s Trust. Elba, who got his acting start thanks to a grant from the charity, will join The King in telling the stories of one million young lives changed. Release Date: Autumn

2️⃣ Amazon Prime: The King will feature in an Amazon Prime documentary about how to make the world “more sustainable”. It will use Charles’s charity endeavours to demonstrate how to “transform people, places and ultimately the planet”. Release Date: Next Year

Prince & Princess of Wales

1️⃣ BBC: Guardians will focus on how the work of rangers - who protect endangered animals whose role has become significantly more risky. Around 1,400 rangers have died in the past decade. Ongoing

MISC

1️⃣ Book: Queen Camilla is set to star in the forthcoming instalment of Peter James’ bestselling detective series. The Roy Grace series’ 23rd novel will open with a royal train derailment and attempted assassination of a palace aide. Link

[obscurehistoricalinterests]

'Sisi' was a terrible empress. Her romanticization needs to STOP.

In more recent decades, Elisabeth has received a growing attention in pop culture: there are several series, films and even a musical paying tribute to her legend. Her beauty is admired, her trials and tribulations are pitied, her struggle to escape the chafing constraints of royal life is celebrated. There's a whiff of feminism surrounding her lately - a strong, intelligent woman, metaphorically, and if we take the film Corsage, even literally flipping off the patriarchy. She's galloping through forests barefoot, she's facing off her tyrannical mother in law, she's fighting for her freedom, for control over her own life. German writer Karen Duve goes as far as to call Elisabeth "an undiscovered feminist icon." 

But... was she? One of her ladies in waiting once said that Elisabeth will "live on in legend, not in history". And right she was. You see, Elisabeth has triumphed. When I look around, it seems as if we see her exactly as she would have wanted us to. A tragic heroine, a beautiful apparition, a nymph who somehow got trapped in the mortal realm, to her immense suffering. And for a modern woman,  there is much to empathize with in Elisabeth: her sublime sensitivity, her iron self-discipline, her headstrong character, her inborn thirst for freedom. But upon lifting the starry veil of this ethereal fairy-tale queen, one will find the face of a much more complex, flawed and ultimately human woman. Self-obsessed and narcissistic, monstrously selfish and possessive, cruelly indifferent to her empire (with one all-consuming exception), incessantly self-victimizing and deeply, deeply unhappy - overwhelmingly through her own fault.  

[melancholicstation]

melancholicstation state issued propaganda for you to watch bobby kennedy for president (2018) on netflix

(bobby francis kennedy x lana del rey's how to disappear)

[grandmaster-anne]

12 April 2024 Princess Anne & Zara Tindall: 75 years of History, Badminton Horse Trials © Badminton TV

[justwanderingtheblog]

A Rambling Account of the Badassery of Xena: Warrior Princess

A video essay about Xena: Warrior Princess and her place in the history of action women and queer women on screen.

0:00 - Intro

8:23 - Disclaimer

8:44 - Toss a Coin to Your Warrior (Princess)

10:48 - Women in Action: By the Numbers

37:59 - Women in Action: Like the Harpies in a Bad Mood

49:57 - Just a Girl in Search of a Really Good Sword

56:29 - All Consequences Are Your Own Creation

59:47 - A Friend of Humanity

1:06:51 - Don’t Be Shy, Your Mother Wasn’t

1:22:55 - Harold, They’re Lesbians

1:36:13 - Leather Unmentionables

1:47:06 - The Producers Sincerely Hope You Were A-MUSE-D

1:50:32 - Sleazy Warlords Who Drink Magic Elixirs

1:59:13 - Blonde-Haired, Blue-Eyed Horde Girls

2:15:31 - Xena Was Permanently Harmed in the Making of This Motion Picture

2:18:02 - Epilogue

2:27:21 - Credits

[tiaramania]

Princess Aminah of Johor's Yellow Diamond Tiara

This tiara was made by Singapore based jeweler, Royal Insignia, for Tunku Tun Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah to wear to her wedding in August 2017. It features a cushion cut yellow diamond along with pear, marquise, and emerald cut white diamonds set in white gold.

Princess Aminah's father, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor, was sworn in as the new Yang di-Pertuan Agong aka King of Malaysia today so I hope to see this tiara worn more in the future.

[blueeyeddarkknight]

The gnarly (but hilarious) pig transformation that used to give me nightmares as a kid 😳 🙆🧙 🐗

From the making of Willow documentary

The pig/human hybrid reference prop from the movie

Imma end it on a sweet note ⚔️ 💋 🔥

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

"Always imitated never EQUALED"

"Copycats (and copyKates) are usually communicating "I want to be like you and feel like you. I want to have what you have." They are normally missing a core sense of who they are and copy to feel less empty and vacant emotionally."

[klippfandom]

Lucy Lawless has a brand new verified Facebook account and a TikTok account. She has these links on her Instagram account.

Instagram Facebook TikTok

Also, her first directing job, Never Look Away, opens this weekend and is on VOD. Check your local cinemas and streaming services.

[princessanneftw]

Interesting 👀

[royalsofhistory]

Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, future Queen Mother of Romania, dressed in Greek national costume.

[houseofbrat]

Of course, this documentary is also part of the Palace’s PR operation to build a profile for the future monarch. Everyone is recorded saying what a great guy he is. The Prince is asked about the criticism that he has faced for taking on this particular subject, given his wealth and privilege and abundance of homes. He replies in carefully chosen soundbites while skirting the question, because there is really no satisfactory way for him to answer it. This programme is the best response he can give to those critics.

~ The Telegraph, Anita Singh, "Prince William: We Can End Homelessness, review: the future King’s commitment shines through"

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[fideidefenswhore]

Yet, even Chapuys, who gives us this information, says earlier in the same letter that ‘there had been… talk of a new marriage for this king… which rumour agrees well with my own news from the court of France, where, according to letters [I have] received, courtiers maintain that this king has actually applied for the hand of Francis’ daughter’. Chapuys himself therefore does not connect up the rumours of a ‘new marriage’ with Jane Seymour. In early April, Jane was still little more than a lady whom the king was pursuing. At best, in accordance with the conventions of courtly love, she was the lady whom ‘he serves’ – a telling phrase. At worst, she was a passing fancy, whom Henry may have hoped to make his mistress. Chapuys certainly didn’t think much of Henry’s choice. He described Jane the day before Anne’s execution as ‘no great beauty’ and ‘not a woman of great wit’; he implied that she was unlikely to be a virgin, and reported that people said she was inclined ‘to be proud and haughty’. Yet, by this point, the world had changed, and with it, Henry’s intentions towards Jane. It is highly improbable that before Anne was considered guilty of adultery, Henry had seriously begun to plan to make Jane his wife.

1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, Suzannah Lipscomb

"I hear that, even before the arrest of the Concubine, the King, speaking with Mistress Jane Semel of their future marriage [...]"

[leifgrandeduchesse]

Olga, Princess of Yugoslavia, née of Greece and Denmark, in a documentary film by her daughter Elizabeth and a Serbian journalist Mira Adanja Polak, 1994.

"The Princess likes to be held by the hand for there was little tenderness in her life." - M. A. Polak

The said documentary caused a stir, so much so that Olga's eldest son, Alexander, filed a complaint against his sister for the damage to the image of their mother. Namely, Olga was heavily affected by Alzheimer's disease.

Sources: (x), (x)

[marsymallows]

Exploring Slow Living: Documentaries, Movies, and Books

I don’t know a lot of people who share the same desperation I have for a slow life except for my boyfriend, a friend I constantly talk to these days and a bunch of online strangers in a Reddit sub I’m subscribed to. My boyfriend lived in a farm. LOL. But setting aside all the memes and controversies now infamously associated with that line, he really did and he has always dreamed of leaving the…