Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II

Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II
by Peter Spry-Leverton

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Actor: Days of Majesty
Director: Peter Spry-Leverton
Brand: ELIZABETH II
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur White Star

DVD Reviews of Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II

DVD Review: Interesting and Informative
Summary: 4 Stars

This interesting and informative DVD will educate you on the role and ceremonial duties of the Queen. For better understanding of a constitutional monarchy and the part in which the royal family particularly the Queen this is a must see. The video shows the Queen does not just sit on a throne and wear a crown and does not have any official role in governing but its not just all diamonds and tiaras.

DVD Review: An Enjoyable Visit--
Summary: 4 Stars

While this is not the most comprehensive video on the Queen, it is a most pleasant documentary, not only about Her Majesty but about many of the traditions surrounding the monarchy. I agree with another reviewer that the coronation footage is amazing in its restoration.

An inexpensive addition, most welcome, to my DVD library.

DVD Review: MAGNIFICENT DIGITAL RESTORATION OF THE CORONATION
Summary: 5 Stars

I received this DVD as a gift and it was very well appeciated by me. The footage of the coronation rehearsals with the Duchess of Norfolk are amazing - surely some of the most extraordinary footage ever filmed. The Duchess of Norfolk of the time did not convert to Catholicism therefore she could stand in for The Queen.

See also the book "Coronation June 2 1953" by Conrad Frost (ISBN 0 213 16674 7) for a COMPLETE background to the lead-up, rehearsals, snafus, and "insider" revelations attendant upon the greatest coronation we are going to see in our lifetimes.

I found the reviews by the other two reviewers to be superficial and to review such an important DVD in one sentence just reeks of laziness and superciliousness. Surely that reviewer had more to say - but then maybe he did not.

This is an astounding DVD and has such chapter headings as: The Trial of the Pyx; Swan Upping; Lord Lieutenants; The Royal Standard; The Royal Maundy Service; Colour Drills; The Royal Company of Archers; etc., etc.

It is a treasure-trove for gleaners of royal trivia and admirers of the House of Mountbatten-Windsor alike.

Highly recommended to all monarchist and lovers of pomp and pageantry.

Timothy Wingate Ottawa CANADA

DVD Review: I love this DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

I am so glad this is on DVD. I taped it off of my local PBS station during the year commemorating the 45th aniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. It was fascinating to see everything that went on during the wweks leading up to the coronation, like the women who embroidered the train that the Queen wore when she first entered Westminster Abbey. I love this DVD and am happy to have it once again in my royal library.

DVD Review: Very Nice
Summary: 4 Stars

Interesting look at the monarch I bought it mostly to see coronation
footage. It was worth the money

Description of Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II

DAYS OF MAJESTY

A film that beautifully depicts and celebrates the ceremonies that draw millions of tourists to England every year, those ceremonies associated with the Royal Family. In the year that marked the 40th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation, this film portrays all the pomp and grandure that surrounds the monarchy.

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