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.
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:
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:
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.
ReplyDeleteSuch a bummer. Don't they have it on their satellite RTVE?
DeleteWe 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.
DeleteWell, that is understandable, these days one does not get anything for free, sadly.
DeleteSeems 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.
ReplyDeleteIf it is any consolation most of the kings died too LOL
DeleteWhat a sad life to be unloved by so many, but good on her for the Red Cross contribution.
ReplyDeleteSeems she made something of her life in the end, if we are to trust the producers.
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