Queen Elizabeth or Queen Elisabeth may refer to:
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations. She is also head of state of the Crown Dependencies.
Elizabeth was born in London, and educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne as George VI in 1936 on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, in which she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. On the death of her father in 1952, she became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised. Between 1956 and 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence and some realms became republics. Today, in addition to the first four aforementioned countries, Elizabeth is Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
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Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Keywords: 1930s, abdication, apostrophe-in-title, archbishop-of-canterbury, australian, biplane, britain, british-royal-family, bromance, brother-brother-relationship
It takes leadership to confront a nation's fear. It takes friendship to conquer your own.
When God couldn't save The King, The Queen turned to someone who could.
When his nation needed a leader, when the people needed a voice, an ordinary man would help him find the courage.
Find Your Voice.
The Nation Awaits...
Lionel Logue: What was your earliest memory?::King George VI: I'm not... -here to discuss... -personal matters.::Lionel Logue: Why are you here then?::King George VI: Because I bloody well stammer!
Lionel Logue: Do you know any jokes?::King George VI: ...Timing isn't my strong suit.
King George VI: [Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing? Get up! You can't sit there! GET UP!::Lionel Logue: Why not? It's a chair.::King George VI: No, that. It is not a chair. T-that... that is Saint Edward's chair.::Lionel Logue: People have carved their names on it.::King George VI: [Simultaneously] That... chair... is the seat on which every king and queen has... That is the Stone of Scone you ah-are trivializing everything. You trivialize...::Lionel Logue: [Simultaneously] It's held in place by a large rock. I don't care about how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair.::King George VI: Listen to me. *Listen to me!*::Lionel Logue: Listen to you? By what right?::King George VI: By divine right if you must, I am your king.::Lionel Logue: No you're not, you told me so yourself. You didn't want it. Why should I waste my time listening?::King George VI: Because I have a right to be heard. I have a voice!::Lionel Logue: [pauses] Yes, you do.::[Longer pause]::Lionel Logue: You have such perseverance Bertie, you're the bravest man I know.
[watching a clip of Hitler speaking]::Lilibet: What's he saying?::King George VI: I don't know but... he seems to be saying it rather well.
King George VI: Every monarch in history has succeeded someone who is dead. Or just about to be. My predecessor's not only alive, but very much so. Bloody mess. Can't even give them a Christmas speech.::Lionel Logue: Like your dad used to do.::King George VI: Precisely.::Lionel Logue: He's not here anymore.::King George VI: Yes he is: he's on that shilling I gave you.::Lionel Logue: Easy enough to give away. You don't have to carry him around in your pocket. Or your brother. You don't need to be afraid of the things you were afraid of when you were five.
King George VI: ...a sieve of thisted siffles!
Stanley Baldwin: Sir, I have asked to see you today in order to tender my resignation as Prime Minister.::King George VI: I'm so sorry to hear that... Mr Baldwin.::Stanley Baldwin: Neville Chamberlain will take my place as Prime Minister. It's a matter of principle. I was mistaken. I have found it impossible to believe that there is any man in the world so lacking in moral feeling as Hitler. And that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war. Churchill was right all along. This was always Hitler's intention. I'm only very sorry to leave you at this great time of crisis.::Stanley Baldwin: [pauses]::Stanley Baldwin: I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.
Queen Elizabeth: [Using the name "Mrs. Johnson"] My husband's work involves a great deal of public speaking.::Lionel Logue: Then he should change jobs.::Queen Elizabeth: He can't.::Lionel Logue: What is he, an indentured servant?::Queen Elizabeth: Something like that.
Myrtle Logue: Will their Majesties be staying for dinner? [Logue and Bertie look panic-stricken. Elizabeth comes to the rescue]::Queen Elizabeth: We would love to, such a treat, but alas... a previous engagement. What a pity.
Lionel Logue: [as George "Berty" is lighting up a cigarette] Please don't do that.::King George VI: I'm sorry?::Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.::King George VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.::Lionel Logue: They're idiots.::King George VI: They've all been knighted.::Lionel Logue: [sarcastic] Makes it official then.
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"Now is the winter of our discontent..." With these timeless words, Duke Richard - lounging on his sun deck - sets his murderous plans in motion. His goal: to eliminate the hated rival Lancaster dynasty, and reign as undisputed king. Standing between him and the throne are his brothers Clarence and King Edward, his nephews the Princes, his bitter adversary Queen Elizabeth, and a host of enemies, rivals, and dubious allies. In the Los Angeles of "Shakespeare's Richard III", violence is the norm: every member of the nobility expects to kill or be killed, according to the code duel lo. They prefer death before dishonor. The women in this society are just as dangerous, courageous, and brutal as the men. The York and Lancaster families - rival branches of the former England Studios - exert a mafia-like control of the city and local politics/law enforcement. Aided by his sinister counselor Buckingham, Richard will stop at nothing - seduction, bribery, conspiracy, and wholesale slaughter - in his bloodthirsty quest, until finally just one adversary remains: his arch-rival Lord Richmond. But why, as the opposing forces join battle, is Richard smiling? What does he know that Richmond doesn't...?
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, death, evil-power, hate, hollywood-california, kingdom, knife-fight, los-angeles-california, love
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16 years after the 'deaths' of the two boy Princes held captive in the Tower, Perkin Warbeck makes his claim to the throne as the rightful King Richard. Did the younger brother survive? Is he an imposter or is he, as he says 'King Richard'.
Keywords: 1490's, 15th-century, based-on-real-events, cloth, death-by-hanging, death-sentence, doubt, england, henry-vii, impostor
Perkin Warbeck: You used to sing me to sleep, do you remember? La-le, La-le my little child, sleep and now be still...::Queen Elizabeth: ... if thou be a little child, yet may thou have thy will
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The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI. Now he expects to be, as constitutional monarch, little more then a figure head, but again faith has more in store for him: Nazi Germany proves such a formidable war challenger to the British Empire that the nearly desperate nation looks to its royal couple as comforting symbol of the unbroken spirit, a part they play with great success, while hosting chased monarchs and governments from continental Europe. After victory, life returns to normal, but pulmonary disease soon ends George's, leaving the throne to his still young firstborn, queen Elisabeth II.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, abdication, archbishop-of-canterbury, attack-on-pearl-harbor, bagpipes, british-royal-family, british-royalty, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smoking
Lady Mabel Airlie: Surely, she'd be the first commoner to marry into the royal family since, umm...::Queen Mary: Anne Boleyn::Lady Mabel Airlie: Well, that didn't work out, did it?::Queen Mary: Well, my understanding is that until he had her beheaded, the whole thing was a resounding success.
King George V: I have no pretensions of being able to run anything. But I do know a few fellows who can. I'm a very ordinary sort of chap... as are you, David. The difference between us is that you seem to be unaware of this very important fact.
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Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scene's from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times that shaped the play and the events that happened at the time the play is set. Interviews with mostly British actors are also included, attempting to explain why American actors have more problems performing Shakespearean plays than they do.
Keywords: acting, ambition, based-on-play, behind-the-scenes, birthplace, character-name-in-title, cripple, globe-theatre, hunchback, interview
A four hundred year old work-in-progress.
Barbara Everett: Irony is only hypocrisy with style.
Al Pacino: What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
Vanessa Redgrave: In England you have had centuries when words are totally divorced from truth.
Al Pacino: A person has an opinion. It's only an opinion. It's never a question of right or wrong.
Lady Anne: To take is not to give.
Richard III: I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.
Richmond: The bloody dog is dead...
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The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language...
Keywords: 1980s, airplane, american-abroad, american-in-the-uk, annoying-tourist, bare-breasts, bavaria, blonde, breasts, british-stereotype
For over two thousand years, Europe has survived many great disasters. Now for the real test... The Griswold's.
For over two thousand years, Europe has survived many great disasters. Now for the real test. Chevy Chase & his family are coming from America!
Rusty Griswold: Oink oink, my good man!
Stewardess: Do you want something to drink?::Clark Griswold: [to Ellen] Honey, you want something?::Ellen Griswold: No thank you.::Clark Griswold: [to the Stewardess] I'll have a Coke.::Stewardess: Do you want that in the can?::Clark Griswold: [Clark turns and looks at the bathroom, then turns back at the Stewardess] No, I'll have it right here.
[in Germany, Clark peers down at a village in the hills and tears come to his eyes]::Clark Griswold: There it is, kids, my motherland.::Rusty Griswold: Dad, Grandma's from Chicago.::Clark Griswold: Shut up, Russ.
[In England]::Ellen Griswold: Clark, you're driving on the wrong side of the road!::Clark Griswold: I realize that honey. I'm also on the wrong side of the car.
Clark Griswold: There's Buckingham Palace, kids. That's where the Queen lives and works.::Audrey Griswold: Works? What does she do, Dad?::Clark Griswold: She queens... and vacuums.
Clark Griswold: [singing] Oh the hills are alive with the sound of Griswold/this shit's been around for a very long time./I'm feeling so high, I just can't stand it/It's as if I've been here for at least a week.
Ellen Griswold: Look back there!::Clark Griswold: Yeah, it's just a hooker. They're all over the place.::Ellen Griswold: Look who she's with!::[Clark looks back, and sees that Rusty is with the hooker]
Rusty Griswold: Who was it that said when in Rome do as the Romans do?::Clark Griswold: That was Rome not Paris. This is Paris and you're drunk.
[In England, Rusty sees a young man with a punk Mohawk haircut]::Rusty Griswold: That's it! That's it! That's the way I want my haircut, Dad!::Clark Griswold: Rusty, you don't want to look like a rooster do you?
Clark Griswold: There's the Left Bank, kids. Russ, I bet you can't guess what bank is on the right.::Rusty Griswold: The Bank of America.