Sunday, November 10, 2024

ENA: QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA, A HEARTBREAKING HISTORICAL SERIES ON A SPANISH QUEEN THAT NO ONE LOVED AT COURT

   ENA EPIC TV SERIES  
ON QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA OF SPAIN
We continue our international weekend moving from Russia today over to Spain, but don't worry we will go back tomorrow again. ENA: QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA is a new six part historical series from Spain's national broadcaster RTVE that has been presented at this year's MipCom. It is a heartbreaking story of Victoria Eugenia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, despised by her husband, annulled by her mother-in-law, ridiculed by the court, ignored by her subjects, and punished by her children - a woman no one loved. The series is currently airing in Spain on Monday evenings.
 
ENA IS THE STORY
of a queen and also of a woman. Of a young Englishwoman who had never dreamed of being what she was: queen of Spain. On the journey, Victoria Eugenia (Kimberley Tell) leaves behind her family, her customs, her culture and has to renounce her religion to live in a strange land, where the first thing she suffers is an attack on her wedding day. She never felt accepted or loved, but she never gave up and always fought to achieve both. Modern in a traditional environment, she was an icon of fashion and of the liberation of feminine customs: she smoked, wore pants... When she discovered the continuous infidelities of King Alfonso XIII (Joan Amargos), she did not give up her role as queen. And she did so with discretion and, above all, resilience. She suffered the curse of transmitting hemophilia, to her husband's sorrow in view of the difficult dynastic succession that this entailed. In exchange, she improved the health of many Spaniards with a work which has gone down in history: the reconstruction of the Red Cross. Ena was a woman who fought to be happy with all her strength in a bitter period, in which she witnessed two world wars, a civil war and the deadly Spanish flu. For all these reasons, Ena, as a series, not only tells the story of Victoria Eugenia's life, it is also a portrait of an era that changed the world. Check out the short video below:
 

6 comments:

  1. I wonder where I cold watch it. In my country, I could access RTVE from my computer. Here I have the international signal, but not the actual streaming.

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    1. Such a bummer. Don't they have it on their satellite RTVE?

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    2. We do subscribe to the International signal, but it doesn't show the same programs as in Spain. And they don't have an On Demand service. Andhere in USA youhave to subscribe (and pay) to watch their programs online.

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    3. Well, that is understandable, these days one does not get anything for free, sadly.

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  2. Seems like all the queens throughout history have has sad endings. Either they couldn't give their husband's a son and the King's hated that or they were killed in order to bring in another woman. So many sad endings.

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    1. If it is any consolation most of the kings died too LOL

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