Trailer: Nicole Kidman Plays Gertrude Bell in “Queen of the Desert”
Posted on July 28, 2015 at 8:00 am
Nicole Kidman plays Gertrude Bell, the first woman to earn top honors in history at Oxford, fluent in six languages, and one of the great adventurers and scholars of the 20th century. Her spiritual home was the Middle East, where she became a cartographer, archaeologist, writer, and photographer, and during World War I an advisor to British military intelligence. Robert Pattinson plays her friend, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), and the cast also includes Damian Lewis and James Franco.
. Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explains that the fascination with the clothes worn by the royals is not a recent development. And the monarchs have used and encouraged this fascination as a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics as it is about the cut. This documentary explores the history and style of the royal wardrobe and how the clothes each of the royals chooses reflects and affects — for better or worse — not just their personalities but their relationship to their subjects. From the formal gowns and robes and jewels to the iconic wedding dresses and the clothes worn by the royal children, Dr. Worsley shows us how they shape history.