A film about the royal family banned by Elizabeth II appeared on YouTube
'29.01.2021'
Source: Фокус
The ban has been in effect since 1972, and before the film was removed from the video service, thousands of people watched it, and segments of the video scattered all over the Internet, writes Фокус.
A documentary about the royal family of Great Britain was filmed in 1969, and three years later it was banned from showing personally by Queen Elizabeth II. The rights to it belong to the BBC company, which respects the monarch's desire and does not let it air, but the film periodically pops up on the network.
In 2021, it reappeared on YouTube, and before the BBC managed to remove it, several thousand people managed to see and possibly download the picture. So we should expect its next appearance on the network.
The 110-minute documentary was filmed with the aim of bringing the royal family closer to the people, but the queen was unhappy with the result and the film never appeared on the screens again. In addition, there are offensive moments in it. For example, during dinner, the Queen calls the US Ambassador “gorilla”.
“It was extremely difficult to maintain equanimity when the Minister of the Interior told me, 'Enter the gorilla,'” says the queen. “I said it was an unkind remark, but the door opened and I saw a real gorilla: he had a small body and long arms. It was hard to contain laughter. ”
Walter Annenberg was the US ambassador to Britain in 1969, but it could also have been Annenberg's predecessor, David C.E.Bruce, who was sent to London by John F. Kennedy in 1961.
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The film also showed a picnic of the royal family, the Queen's meeting with President Nixon, how 21-year-old Prince Charles learns to play the cello, how Prince Philip mows the lawn and, swearing, chases dogs.
In 2012, the Windsor exhibit featured a 90-second clip of the film.
On YouTube, the controversial tape was uploaded by a new user under the nickname Philip Strangeways, claiming that he works for the mysterious organization HM Government Public Service Films.
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The story of the documentary is widely covered in the third season of The Crown, with over 1969 million viewers during its first broadcast in 45. And the everyday life of the royal family aroused unprecedented interest, but the queen ordered never to show it again, because she feared that such frankness would “destroy the magic” in relation to the royal family.
Anthropologist and wildlife expert David Attenborough wrote to the director after the film's premiere that they were “killing the monarchy” with their film.
