“The Borgias at Buckingham”: in the intimacy of the Windsors

VSdo you know The Windsors ? Not the royal family of course, but the series broadcast by Netflix featuring the dynasty in a series of mini-episodes stripping the vicissitudes of the heart, the palinodies and ridiculousness of Elizabeth II and her descendants? A staging that the British are fond of – Spitting ImageEnglish ancestor of Guignols, did not hesitate to make his cabbage fat descendants of Queen Victoria. A tradition of setting up Royals in which fits for his latest opus, The Borgias at Buckingham (Albin Michel), the very Anglophile Marc Roche – whose weekly Letter from Buckingham is the delight of subscribers of the Point. It is indeed in the form of sketches spiced with humorous projections that this eminent specialist of the court of…

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