The temptress of Royalty intrigues me somewhat. After appearing in a number of period dramas recently, most notably Upstairs Downstairs, Any Human Heart and of course The King's Speech, she has once again become a beguiling talking point, afterall no one likes a bitch and she's certainly portrayed as one. Having said this, what interests me is her sheer ability to bewitch men, she even got a prince to bow down to her. Now that's pretty impressive. She was honoured the 'Woman of the Year' by Time magazine, and posed numerous times for Vogue, that is until her forced exile. She is the personification of this era of sexual and social hypocracy; many women of a similar stature were acting much the same but were able to do so without the threat of national villianisation. I'm not 'sticking up' for her but it just seems that as soon as such 'modern' behaviours reached the Royal realm the woman in question was demonized. And that seems to be the only two-dimensional personality that we're seeing in these historical dramas. Surely there's more to her than her allure and ability to throw a jolly good-knees up?
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