Based on a 1945 bodice ripper by Winifred Carter. The cast (including Peter Graves, already ubiquitous as upper class twits but here playing the dashing young Prince) gather about stiffly in fancy dress discussing affairs of state and matters of the heart in this drama with echoes of the recent Abdication Crisis while providing an escape for those trapped in postwar Austerity Britain into a harsher but plusher era. (The script is careful to identify luminaries of the period like 'Mr Pitt' and 'Mr Haydn' by making sure they are habitually referred to by name.)
Feline Viennese actress Wanda Rotha fleetingly makes quite a vivid impression (as she usually does) in the first of a tiny handful of English-language roles as Caroline of Brunswick.
Feline Viennese actress Wanda Rotha fleetingly makes quite a vivid impression (as she usually does) in the first of a tiny handful of English-language roles as Caroline of Brunswick.