"'The Scandalous Lady W ' - BBC" Topic

If you live within range of our sceptered isles, and have time to squander

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If not, scroll through this agonising 'behind-the-scenes' bit of 'puff'
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(with the sound 'off,' I reccommend) to check out those Guards officers… well, I think they're Guards officers. I mean, who else would be sporting such fine whiskers, in 1781?

It has Lady Margaery Tyrell in it.
Does she keep her clothes on in this one?

I've heard she doesn't….

As if…

I was mist impressed with her all to short appearance in Rush :)

Saw it. I would give it a 7 out of 10. Most of that is for the costumes and the period houses they filmed it in. Actually she wasn't that bad. I think the fault was with the 2 lead male actors who were not that great and the faintly ridiculous feminist spin in the script which was laid on in unsubtle 2015 politically correct spades.

The whiskers are a complete anachronism for that time – early 1800s and you'd be fine with them. The epaulettes are silver, do definitely not the Guards; and everyone seems to have TWO, so they are all senior officers, it seems, regardless of age.

Actually, uniform-wise, not a bad effort for a 1780-ish setting.

@ Guy Barlow – The Spectator agrees with your final sentence.

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It's hard to see where the inspiration for the 'Burnside' whiskers came from. Clearly the production designer's research into facial hair (or lack of) did not extend to the archives of the Rev List forum. Endless hours of fun.

Side whiskers had begun to creep down by 1790 but apart from the grenadiers of the 36th at Bangalore circa 1791 there is no evidence of moustachios worn by the British infantry in Europe until quite some time after 1800- 5th Bn, 60th excepted, perhaps.

Yes, gold lace for the Guards, of course,- but a Royal regiment at the very least!- although it seems the design approach followed thematic theatrical standards rather than those of 'realistic' film making. I imagine they thought single epaulettes of company officers- where appropriate- would have looked odd to a modern audience. I know of portraits from the 1780s that had a second epaulette added in Victorian times for that reason. Ditto officers wearing different coloured facings.