A Day In The Life.......
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disneydream06I just came home from going to the movies, again. lol...
I went to see a special showing of the play, "The Audience", recorded live back in 2015 at a theater in London, England. Sorry, I don't remember the theater it was playing at.
"The Audience" is a show about the meetings between Queen Elizabeth and all her Prime Ministers.
The Queen is played by the amazing actress, Helen Mirren.
The show was really fantastic. It was quite funny in several areas, but also quite touching in others. Well, one for sure. Near the end of the play, the Queen is meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and he is telling her that he plans to step down as he is showing signs of Alzheimers. At the end of the meeting the Queen tells the Prime Minister that he was to invite the Queen and her husband to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street she would be happy to attend. He states that has only happened one other time with Prime Minister Churchill, and the Queen responded, Yes, and she would be happy to accept his invite. This was all the more meaningful as Harold Wilson was a very brash man, not somebody you would expect to even be meeting with the Queen.
Now, I assume that all these meetings in the play were fictionalized, as it's my understanding that these meetings were all extremely private with just the Queen and her Prime Ministers in attendance. But I really do hope that that touching moment between the Queen and PM Harold Wilson did happen.
There was an intermission like they do in a play, and during the intermission they talked with the costumers and actors about the costumes and how they were done during the show. Then after the show there was an "interview" between the director and Helen Mirren that was fun to listen to.
If you ever have the chance to see this program, I highly recommend it.
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Another note from today, I had my vehicle in to the mechanic to get the fan on my AC fixed, and I can't tell you how nice it was to cool air now that the temps are actually trying to warm up. I actually had to turn the temp on the AC up because it was so cool. LOL........
I went to see a special showing of the play, "The Audience", recorded live back in 2015 at a theater in London, England. Sorry, I don't remember the theater it was playing at.
"The Audience" is a show about the meetings between Queen Elizabeth and all her Prime Ministers.
The Queen is played by the amazing actress, Helen Mirren.
The show was really fantastic. It was quite funny in several areas, but also quite touching in others. Well, one for sure. Near the end of the play, the Queen is meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and he is telling her that he plans to step down as he is showing signs of Alzheimers. At the end of the meeting the Queen tells the Prime Minister that he was to invite the Queen and her husband to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street she would be happy to attend. He states that has only happened one other time with Prime Minister Churchill, and the Queen responded, Yes, and she would be happy to accept his invite. This was all the more meaningful as Harold Wilson was a very brash man, not somebody you would expect to even be meeting with the Queen.
Now, I assume that all these meetings in the play were fictionalized, as it's my understanding that these meetings were all extremely private with just the Queen and her Prime Ministers in attendance. But I really do hope that that touching moment between the Queen and PM Harold Wilson did happen.
There was an intermission like they do in a play, and during the intermission they talked with the costumers and actors about the costumes and how they were done during the show. Then after the show there was an "interview" between the director and Helen Mirren that was fun to listen to.
If you ever have the chance to see this program, I highly recommend it.
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Another note from today, I had my vehicle in to the mechanic to get the fan on my AC fixed, and I can't tell you how nice it was to cool air now that the temps are actually trying to warm up. I actually had to turn the temp on the AC up because it was so cool. LOL........
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Date: 2019-06-04 11:48 am (UTC)"On 16 March 1976, Wilson announced his resignation as Prime Minister (taking effect on 5 April 1976). He claimed that he had always planned on resigning at the age of 60, and that he was physically and mentally exhausted. As early as the late 1960s, he had been telling intimates, like his doctor Sir Joseph Stone (later Lord Stone of Hendon), that he did not intend to serve more than eight or nine years as Prime Minister. Roy Jenkins has suggested that Wilson may have been motivated partly by the distaste for politics felt by his loyal and long-suffering wife, Mary. His doctor had detected problems which would later be diagnosed as colon cancer, and Wilson had begun drinking brandy during the day to cope with stress. In addition, by 1976 he might already have been aware of the first stages of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which was to cause both his formerly excellent memory and his powers of concentration to fail dramatically.
Queen Elizabeth II came to dine at 10 Downing Street to mark his resignation, an honour she has bestowed on only one other Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill."
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Date: 2019-06-04 01:31 pm (UTC)