The British monarchy is incredibly popular.
It has never ceased to reinvent itself and fascinate us.
On C8, the documentary
Royal Family: the last secrets of the British crown
offers a very complete immersion in the great moments of the public life and the private life of the Windsors since the abdication of King Edward VIII until the birth of the Royal Baby, Prince George, through the war, the coronation, the romances, the sumptuous weddings, the divorces, the escapades, the moments of popular jubilation and questioning which saw the crown tremble.
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Queen Elizabeth II's sense of duty and the longevity of her reign have a lot to do with the respect that the British have for the monarchy.
The platinum jubilee which marked 70 years of service to the British people this year was an international event.
What about in the future?
“The royal family needs to modernize and stay relevant.
I have to take up this challenge
, ”explains Prince William in the documentary.
This is indeed the whole issue in order to endure and continue to be legitimate from generation to generation.
Rebecca Jarvis, ABC News correspondent sums up the bond that unites the public to the royal family as follows:
"We are close enough that we can imagine being part of this world but it is far enough out of our reach that the
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Archive images, family photos, testimonials, interviews follow one another in a very successful production, signed Rebecca Gitliz, which establishes a parallel between our fascination for Disney princesses and those of the British royal family.
The editing of
Royal Family: The Last Secrets of the British Crown
, a two-part documentary (2018 and 2019) broadcast by C8, is dynamic, exciting and of course very moving.
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While the presence of a mistress does not exist in fairy tales, it was by revealing Prince Charles' affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles and remaining natural in the media that Princess Diana won the support and disrupted formal communication.
"The challenge for the monarchy is to represent the stability, the history of Britain without looking like desperate relics from another era,"
said Chris Connelly, ABC News correspondent.
The monarchy integrates the media sphere
The change in the image of the royal family begins with the use of the media.
Prince Philip has the innovative idea of broadcasting the coronation of Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, at Westminster Abbey.
Both the French and the English with a telephone were able to follow the event in black and white.
The wedding of Lady Diana and Prince Charles gathered around 750 million viewers worldwide, while that of Kate Middleton and Prince William, as well as the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry show nearly 2 billion viewers , 29 million in the United States alone for the latter.
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But long before that, a documentary,
The Royal Family,
showed for the first time behind the scenes and the daily life of the queen, an unprecedented event.
The phenomenal success of the series The Crown then contributed to enrolling the monarchy in a reality TV system, as the C8 documentary underlines:
“A reality show that lasts for centuries and has a history”
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The public idolized Diana, the first member of the family to reach AIDS patients, lepers and to take an interest in child victims of landmines.
Times are changing, so are the royals
Throughout the documentary, we learn that Prince Charles was not allowed to brush his teeth, alone, when he was a child, that Princess Diana had made, precisely, five suicide attempts since her marriage and we measure how Meghan Markle had, from an early age, a sense of commitment pegged to the body.
The royal family moves with the times and all dreams are allowed.
Queen Elizabeth did not accept the marriage of Prince William with a roadster, Kate Middleton, who became Duchess of Cambridge, whose elegance is unanimous.
Didn't she accept Prince Harry's marriage to a divorced American, TV star and independent, whose great great great great grandmother was a slave?
Times are changing, so are the members of the royal family.
"It's as if they were expanding their circle to accommodate a larger part of humanity,"
concludes Rebecca Jarvis nicely.
It will soon be up to Prince George, Charlotte and Louis to write the rest of the story.
Prince George, third in line to the British throne, Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte.
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