{"id":2591,"date":"2019-02-04T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patsytrench.com\/\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T10:23:43","slug":"fact-v-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patsytrench.com\/2019\/02\/04\/fact-v-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact v fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
How would you like it if in years to come you were depicted in a film as a debauched, serial womaniser\/seductress, who drank neat rum straight from the bottle and squashed pet rabbits for a hobby?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I\u2019m exaggerating a tad, but not that much. I\u2019m thinking of two films currently on in London where our historical Queens Anne, Mary and Elizabeth are portrayed not quite as they or their cohorts may have been.<\/p>\n
Film makers are renowned for playing fast and loose with historical fact. In ‘The Favourite’ Queen Anne is shown falling under the spell and influence of two different women at different times \u2013 her friend Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough,\u00a0and then her cousin Abigail Hill. So much is fact. But did she really enjoy lesbian relations with both of them?\u00a0And what about her husband, Prince George of Denmark? Did he not warrant a mention, even if he was dead at the time?<\/p>\n