Product Details

• Actors: Days of Majesty
• Directors: Peter Spry-Leverton
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kultur White Star
• DVD Release Date: October 30, 2007
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000V02CR8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,864 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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DAYS OF MAJESTY - DVD Movie

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MAGNIFICENT DIGITAL RESTORATION OF THE CORONATION, April 9, 2008

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Timothy C. Wingate "History Buff" (Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II (DVD)

I received this DVD as a gift and it was very well appeciated by me. The footage of the coronation rehearsals with the Duchess of Norfolk are amazing - surely some of the most extraordinary footage ever filmed. The Duchess of Norfolk of the time did not convert to Catholicism therefore she could stand in for The Queen.

See also the book "Coronation June 2 1953" by Conrad Frost (ISBN 0 213 16674 7) for a COMPLETE background to the lead-up, rehearsals, snafus, and "insider" revelations attendant upon the greatest coronation we are going to see in our lifetimes.

I found the reviews by the other two reviewers to be superficial and to review such an important DVD in one sentence just reeks of laziness and superciliousness. Surely that reviewer had more to say - but then maybe he did not.

This is an astounding DVD and has such chapter headings as: The Trial of the Pyx; Swan Upping; Lord Lieutenants; The Royal Standard; The Royal Maundy Service; Colour Drills; The Royal Company of Archers; etc., etc.

It is a treasure-trove for gleaners of royal trivia and admirers of the House of Mountbatten-Windsor alike.

Highly recommended to all monarchist and lovers of pomp and pageantry.

Timothy Wingate Ottawa CANADA

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this DVD, December 20, 2007

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Donna M. Adank "anglophile" (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II (DVD)

I am so glad this is on DVD. I taped it off of my local PBS station during the year commemorating the 45th aniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. It was fascinating to see everything that went on during the wweks leading up to the coronation, like the women who embroidered the train that the Queen wore when she first entered Westminster Abbey. I love this DVD and am happy to have it once again in my royal library.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Visit--, December 9, 2008

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J Keistler "[e-mail]" (Lake Jackson, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Days of Majesty / Queen Elizabeth II (DVD)

While this is not the most comprehensive video on the Queen, it is a most pleasant documentary, not only about Her Majesty but about many of the traditions surrounding the monarchy. I agree with another reviewer that the coronation footage is amazing in its restoration.

An inexpensive addition, most welcome, to my DVD library.