17) Student Choice:
Like a month ago I watched The Crown, a biographical drama television series for Netflix that shows the story about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. This serie is a very eye opener. This is the first season and it covers the period between the Queen’s marriage to Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburg in 1947 to the disintegration of her sister Princess Margaret’s engagement to Peter Townsend in 1955. I found it fascinating because of the idea of having a little window to the Royal Family lives, despite what people thinks of this life of luxury, cars, palaces, vacations, servants and lots of money. It’s actually not that easy how I thought, especially for the Queen because she has to put particular attention to what she says, what she does or even what she wears. In the second episode, King George VI (Elizabeth’s father) died and she took the throne without even knowing what to do or how to be a Queen, but there’s lots of people on the Buckingham Palace that are there to guide her and help her. The Crown comes with lots of responsibilities. Nowadays, she is the Head of the State and the Head of the Church of England. Because of this, even her immediate family has to request a hearing in advance just to talk to her. Isn’t that crazy? One of the episodes that impressed me the most was the coronation ceremony. Queen Elizabeth’s ceremony was the first one ever seen on TV, before that nobody knew what happened besides the people that attended the ceremony. All of this thanks to her husband Prince Phillip, he was the one that push her to do it, after that and despite many people against the idea of televising the event, Queen Elizabeth insisted that her coronation had to be broadcasted on the BBC in order to make her subjects feel included, regardless of class. I found this series absolutely amazing and I totally recommended to all of you to watch it because this show brings some general knowledge to your life.
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