Ben Gerber

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@jasonc9805 Ай бұрын

I suspect in this case, Queen Anne objected to the idea of inviting George of Hanover whilst she was alive. I believe I saw in a biography of Anne that she objected to ‘seeing her own coffin’. She saw all her children die, and seeing her succession outside that must have been awfully painful.

@danielreiss-cy4zr Ай бұрын

A wonderful singer. I heard her in orchestral concerts in Jlm. Natra, Rossini, and Berlioz. Memories that always make me happy.

@johnmclean9382 Ай бұрын

In three years James II would run away like a little girl.

@JimtheFish0451 2 ай бұрын

It’s a crime the he only got 9 minutes of screen time. Dourif as Piter is easily the best performance in this movie and the newer ones!

@quentincollins1825 2 ай бұрын

@@JimtheFish0451"Gaaah!" 😂👏

@quentincollins1825 2 ай бұрын

This movie was my introduction to Brad Dourif. 👍

@EndLess_Racket 2 ай бұрын

Mine, like most, was Child’s play. I do wish it were this one though.

@gustavgnoettgen 3 ай бұрын

I keep watching the transport scene, especially the arrival gives me goosebumps. It's a slow train arriving at its location, but the sound design (and the little pod) make it so incredibly eerie. And then Piter has to walk past the line of seemingly soulless lunatics, armed with the fastest guns known to man in the eighties.

@bengerber735 3 ай бұрын

It's great. I can't get over the aesthetic of this movie.

@quentincollins1825 2 ай бұрын

Brad said "Landsdraad". And yet...it doesn't matter. 😂👍

@gustavgnoettgen 2 ай бұрын

@@quentincollins1825 I know, that's not what I meant.

@quentincollins1825 2 ай бұрын

@@gustavgnoettgen No problem. That only makes his performance more unique and appealing. I saw this movie in the theater..loved it. But Brad blew me away. ☺️

@nickroberts1596 3 ай бұрын

This is probably more accurate, but The Favourite is more entertaining 🤷

@sovietblobfish 4 ай бұрын

very cool to see a rendering of this battle which is rather starved for coverage, i need to pick up a copy of la troisième guerre de religion at some point...

@bengerber735 4 ай бұрын

It's great - covers the main armies from the start of the war until Moncontour. It's on gallica, you can download it: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5626216d

@rhonataylor85 4 ай бұрын

Genocidal tyrant!

@BillKing8888 5 ай бұрын

I know this meeting really took place but was Sunderland really there and did Momouth accuse him?

@bengerber735 4 ай бұрын

I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised; Monmouth seems to have been grasping at any possibility of survival.

@tnecklover 2 ай бұрын

Sunderland was there and Monmouth did accuse him, at least according to several of the Duke's biographers. Sunderland reputedly replied (or words to this effect): "If that is all the Duke can do to save his life, it will do him little good!" Apparently during the Exclusion Crisis of 1679 - 81, Sunderland, ever the pragmatist/opportunist, had offered Monmouth his services if the future James II was excluded from the throne or if Monmouth was successful in his attempted rebellion. By 1685, Monmouth seems to have been desperate enough to have taken Sunderland at his word, and he might have launched his Rebellion on the supposition the Earl would have joined him at the most opportune moment. It didn't happen as King James had done nothing to alienate his subjects at this stage in his reign. Monmouth might have done better to wait, but his finances were too questionable to delay his uprising, so he invaded, was soundly defeated and executed...James II was turfed out by his nephew/son-in-law, William of Orange some three years later.

@JupiterMuffles 6 ай бұрын

Don't you love when crappy friends push you to your breaking point and then act like a clueless victim when you cut them off? 😂

@christopherlyons5900 3 ай бұрын

She might never have been Queen at all without John and Sarah. She was in love with Sarah. Sarah was not in love with her., but with her husband. That was the problem, along with the fact that Sarah was a Whig, and Anne preferred the Tories. Abigail Masham was willing to pretend to be in love with Anne, and thus replaced Sarah. Acting as an agent for a politician. Thus she achieved much higher rank than she could otherwise have done. A woman of far less ability than Sarah. But also much less pride--Sarah was crappy at only one thing--groveling. And pretending to feel other than she really did. It really is that simple.

@tgflux 6 ай бұрын

James II would be subsequently tossed out in the Glorious Revolution of 1683.

@edwardtodd9734 4 ай бұрын

1688

@bengerber735 4 ай бұрын

@@edwardtodd9734 Those time-travelling Dutch!

@johncahalane7327 6 ай бұрын

The greatest imperative in 1714 was mantainance of The Acts of Succession 1701 passed by Parliament at the end of the reign of William III in total panic who had provided know heir ,Ann was in the same dilemma in 1714 ,no heir,well no Protestant heir, there were plenty of direct heirs by direct bloodline but all were Catholic and Jacobite, thus the reason for the coup of 1688 and what followed would all have been Treasonous and ruinous for many in the Kingdoms ...I have not a doubt that The German Line was expedient for this reason alone and was followed last May by King Charles III... The succession to the thrones of Scotland and England are both dodgy and murky filled with murder, incense and political skulduggery go back to The Duke of Normandy and his spurious claim ...the bloodline has taken many odd turns .. The series was released a very long time ago I suspect around the time of the current Kings elevation to Prince of Wales and the first wedding of Princess Anne ....The Churchills played a devious political game playing a blinder in a deadly political and religious game, John Churchill lived in difficult times born under Cromwell in 1650 died in 1722 in the reign of George IV, his wife Sarah lived on another 22 years...the oddity here was Queen Anne was about 20 years younger and died 30 years before here and even though we cannot prove it today ,as like many men and women of breeding of the day bisexual as long as it was not spoken of...I suspect a lover's tiff or was it that age gap and politics was involved too

@bengerber735 4 ай бұрын

It was released a few years before Princess Anne's wedding but you're definitely right about the turbulence of Churchill's life. It's hard to judge the twists and turns he took when we are living in times of such relative stability.

@sharonpolikoff7282 8 ай бұрын

Sarah waits for the servant to open the door for her, which is normal procedure, of course. But her manner and posture in this scene show how she has been brought down to submissiveness. A contrast from an earlier scene where a door was to be opened and a bouyant, high-spirited Sarah brushed past the servant and opened it herself

@mango2005 Жыл бұрын

I have a different interpretation. Remember she had played a part in the overthrow of her father. She didn't want anything that could become a rival-court in her kingdom. But I doubt she was a Jacobite herself. It is true she wrote to her half-sister Louisa Stuart in France, and may have promised the restoration of her father's line in due course in letters to Mary of Modena though she was also looking for the return of jewels. Mary later reminded her towards the end of Anne's reign of this promise but it was not kept. Her last minute decision to change the Lord Treasurer from the Jacobite Bolingbroke to the Hanoverian Duke of Shrewsbury ensured the Hanoverian Succession and suggests to me that at the end, she supported it.

@bengerber735 Жыл бұрын

Historically speaking, I think you're right. But when I watched the miniseries it seemed they were heavily implying that Anne wanted James to succeed her, but died before she could put things in order to that end.

@mango2005 Жыл бұрын

@@bengerber735 The Act of Settlement 1701 required a Protestant successor. The 1603 Stuart succession to the English throne was in violation of Henry VIIIs Succession Acts, which excluded the Scottish descendents of Margaret Tudor. So there was precedence for setting aside a succession act of parliament. But this was post 1688 and it would have been harder to pull it off.

@briandelaney9710 9 ай бұрын

@@mango2005it is said that Anne believed the warming pan story about James Francis Edward. I wonder if that was because she HAD to in order to keep up any pretense about The succession. This story is now universally debunked. James Francis was according to the regular laws of succession , her heir however impossible because of the Act of Settlement and the various attainders on the Prince of Wales

@bengerber735 4 ай бұрын

@@briandelaney9710 Interestingly the tv show also HEAVILY implies that the warming pan story is true.

@Aarontlondon Жыл бұрын

The Queen was Italian and would have had an Italian accent.

@bengerber735 Жыл бұрын

Very likely she would have.

@andiilham6227 Жыл бұрын

Queen Anne prefered the pretender (James) to become her successor instead of The Elector of Hanover

@bengerber735 Жыл бұрын

I don't think she did in real life.

@andiilham6227 Жыл бұрын

@@bengerber735 she did actually, if only James converted to protestant. However, James who was a devout catholic, refused.

@bengerber735 Жыл бұрын

@@andiilham6227 I think nearly everyone would have jumped on board if James had converted.

@briandelaney9710 9 ай бұрын

James Francis was a man of conscience but less rigid then his father. He would never have converted but he wouldn’t have made the mistakes his father did from 1685-88

@mackenshaw8169 Жыл бұрын

Being accused of being a Jacobite ought to be a badge of honour.

@bengerber735 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@jeanmorin3247 Жыл бұрын

The whole episode related here comes from Sarah's narrative in her "Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough," written 32 years after the incident. Winston Churchill reprised the scene in his "Marlborough," Bk IV, Chap 13. The actresses, here, although good, do not represent well the two real personalities. Sarah was much more intelligent than Anne, but she was wickedly manipulative and status-seeking. Her intimate friendship with Anne was dissimulative of an insatiable need for power and control. The good Duke knew her well and took advantage of her social abilities while damping their excesses. It is doubtful that the account is accurate, knowing to what extent Sarah sought to appear in a good light in the exchange. Winston often has difficulty restraining his disdain for Sarah's scheming, despite the fact that he is well-versed with court intrigues of the worse sort.

@bengerber735 Жыл бұрын

The series is very pro-Marlborough, that's for sure.