Bitter Final Meeting Between Sarah Churchill and Queen Anne (The First Churchills)

[@JupiterMuffles]

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]

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.

[@sharonpolikoff7282]

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

[@jeanmorin3247]

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]

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

[@rorygilmore2470]

this looks AMAZING 😍

[@bengerber735]

It's an interesting series. Not sure where it can be found nowadays though.

[@briandelaney9710]

@@bengerber735 I bought a copy on Amazon just a little while ago. It was streaming on yt until a month ago

[@legendarian4690]

​@@bengerber735 It's back up on KZbin as of now

[@pljms]

Wonderful.

[@bengerber735]

Indeed!

[@nickroberts1596]

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