The Scandalous Lady W ..

[Elina]

I haven't seen any mention of it on here. Did anyone watch it? I thought it was excellent. What a feisty lady of her time. She was quite beautiful. More here .. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Dorothy_Fleming

[rsvp]

Agree Elinor - I had recorded it and watched it last night - thoroughly enjoyed it. Kept wondering where I'd seen the lead actress before then the penny dropped, she's in Game of Thrones.

[Elina]

Oh was she rsvp! ... I have missed this much talked about series!

[Gromit]

I watched it and liked it, the acting was good, the cast was great and it looked fabulous.
My only criticism was all the flash forwards and flash backs were annoying. I don't think it helped the story at all to cut up time and show them to us in the wrong order. It is a good enough story without resorting to gimmicky production.
Also, like you, I looked up the real story afterwards, and found that they had omitted that they had another child together, which seemed dishonest to not include in this story.

[Elina]

True Gromit, I had just read about the other child, pity that was left out. Can you imagine the scandal in the day!!

[rsvp]

you either love Game of Thrones Elinor or hate it - I love programmes like that with fantasy and dragons etc. It has very, very graphic violence and 'adult themes' portrayed in great detail so be warned if you don't care for those sort of things. Fabulous characters.

[Gromit]

Elina,
I expect if the show had ended with them having a second child which they also abandoned, then we would not have been as sympathetic to the characters, as we were.

Game of Thrones is fantastic. Like an alternate version of the the War of the Roses. Genuinely really shocking in places. A must see.

[Elina]

Rsvp, I think I'd really like to catch up with that!
Gromit, are you referring to the first legitimate child which died young?

[waterboatman]

I watched it. For the time she was indeed feisty, but at the same time was easily lead. Very well made I thought.

[Elina]

I think ladies of that era were expected to carry out their husbands wishes waterman, they didn't really have a voice.

[Elina]

It must have been quite extraordinary for a woman to fight her husband through the courts. Must have made very interesting reading in the day!

[waterboatman]

Yes indeed. But she didn't have to embark on the affair, she did that of her own volition. It still goes on today.

[Old_Geezer]

Saw the preview, thought I might catch it, then forgot all about it. Might watch on catch up if I don't forget again.

[Gromit]

Seymore and Sir Richard had one legitimate child, a son, Robert Edwin who died young. Seymour bore a second child, Jane Seymour Worsley in August 1781, fathered by Maurice George Bisset but whom Sir Richard claimed as his own to avoid scandal.
She had two more children; another by Bisset after he left her in 1783 whose fate is unknown, and a fourth, Charlotte Dorothy Hammond (née Cochard) whom she sent to be raised by a family in the Ardennes.

[Old_Geezer]

Dash it ! Now you have spoilt the ending !

[Tizzi24]

When was it on? Was it on Sky?

[Old_Geezer]

BBC2

[sunny-dave]

I confess to having missed this - but was amused by one review that said (to paraphrase)

"We know what a *** eyeball looking through a keyhole looks like - could we not have seen a lot less of that and rather more of the rumpy-pumpy he was watching ... "

[sunny-dave]

Oh dear - nanny has made a mild s.dding look much worse :(

[Old_Geezer]

You don't do that with eyeballs !