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Jul 15, 2021 · This Week: She Who Must Be Obeyed! Famed for winning his cases, there is one person Rumpole of the Bailey’s titular character will always lose out to – his wife, "She Who Must...
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He privately calls his wife, Hilda, "She Who Must Be Obeyed", a reference to the fearsome queen in H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel She. His skill at defending his clients is legendary among the criminal classes.
Hilda Rumpole, the wife of Horace Rumpole of British TV series Rumpole of the Bailey 1978–1992. Mrs. Williamson, in Kilmeny of the Orchard by Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1910. Kismet, a Marvel Comics character. Isabella, in The Red Seas comic series.
Rumpole of the Bailey referred to she who must be obeyed. It is a reference to the adventure novel She written by H. Rider Haggard, captured in a 1935 movie...
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Jan 28, 2012 · She Who Must Be Obeyed. A clip from the 1965 Hammer Film production of SHE with Ursula Andress and Christopher Lee. The film tells the saga of She Who Must Be Obeyed, an...
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Feb 9, 2018 · The title of the novel is a shortening of the phrase ‘she who must be obeyed’ – which, curiously, originated in a ‘hideous’ rag-doll owned by Haggard as a child. (The phrase would be given a new lease of life in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey series.)
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Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, often underdogs .
