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DorotaBabilas
Abstract
FromBritain’sMostUnlovedQueentotheFavourite?FilmRepresentations
ofQueenAnne
Comparedwithhereminentcompatriots,QueenElizabethIandQueenVictoria,
QueenAnneappearstoenjoyaverylimitedpresenceinpopularculture.Therecent
Oscar-nominatedfilmTheFavourite(2018)directedbyYorgosLanthimosmaybe
perceivedasanattempttoredressthissituation.However,thedirector,knownfor
hishighlyexperimentalearlierworks,seemstobeinterestedmoreinthesymbolic
andironicculturalusesoftheQueen,thaninherrealbiography.Thearticleattempts
toexploretheapparentlysuddenvindicationandre-appreciationofBritain’smost
unlovedfemalemonarchinthelightofmodernculturalissues,suchasfeminismand
LGBTrights.
Keywords:QueenAnne,film,TheFavourite,Britishmonarchy