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From ‘little Cockney’ to playing Queen Mary: the remarkable career of Eileen Atkins. The actress painfully charts the indignities of her early life and the snobbery she endured before being...
Sep 26, 2021 · At the memory of this scene, Dame Eileen Atkins leaps from her sofa and bobs her jeans-clad knees, wobbling only very slightly. Six years on, she doesn’t remember much about playing...
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Dec 29, 2021 · Instead, granted time by a seemingly never-ending pandemic, the 87-year-old Eileen Atkins wrote about a challenging and often brutal journey to stardom, recently playing Queen Mary in The...
- Miranda Seymour
It's no wonder she has Queen Mary down, this is the second time Dame Eileen Atkins has played the wife of George V. She did it before in the 2002 television film Bertie and Elizabeth.
I also read that on her death bed, a maid turned her back on Queen Mary and forgot to curtsy, upon which Queen Mary said: "I'm not dead yet". In this scene you can see THIS is the moment Elizabeth fully realizes that she is now Queen, when her grandmother, her subject, curtsies to her.
The queen in Downton Abbey was Mary of Teck, who was Queen Elizabeth II's grandmother and was still alive at her coronation. The same woman, but the actress who played her in The Crown would be too old to play her in Downton Abbey, since it was set ~30 years before Elizabeth became Queen.
Sep 24, 2021 · Barely a mention of her distinguished career as one of Britain’s illustrious theatrical dames, devising Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott with her friend Jean Marsh, and her later ...
