The Prince of Wales hails The Age of Elizabeth
The Prince Of Wales narrates BBC One documentary Elizabeth At 90 – A Family Tribute, a unique celebration of The Queen’s 90 years as she reaches her landmark birthday. It will include scenes of The Queen and The Prince of Wales watching cine film footage from her childhood.
Published: 21 April 2016
As we celebrate The Queen’s 90th birthday, she, like all of us, can reflect on a life that has inspired and encouraged millions of people in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and around the world. In many ways, it’s a life that has defined our age.
In the BBC One documentary Elizabeth At 90 – A Family Tribute, The Prince of Wales says The Queen’s long life "has defined our age”. In tonight’s programme, which The Prince narrates, he says; "as we celebrate her 90th birthday, she, like all of us, can reflect on a life that has inspired and encouraged millions of people in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and around the world. In many ways, it’s a life that has defined our age.” He goes on to say that it was the vow that The Queen made as Princess Elizabeth in South Africa in 1947 which “set the tone for the Age of Elizabeth".
In the film, audiences will see The Queen and The Prince of Wales sitting together, watching and reflecting on a selection of the private films shot by The Queen herself and the Duke of Edinburgh, as well as King George VI and the Queen Mother. The Prince of Wales is delighted that this successful format of watching archive footage, often for the very first time, has been revisited and that, for this programme, other members of the family have joined him in watching it.
Contributors interviewed are The Prince of Wales; The Princess Royal; Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry; HM Margrethe of Denmark; The Queen’s niece Lady Sarah Chatto; and three of The Queen’s first cousins Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent and Margaret Rhodes.
Elizabeth At 90 – A Family Tribute will air at 9pm on BBC One, Thursday 21 April. An extended 90-minute version will go out on BBC One at 4.35pm on Sunday 24 April.
Watch the BBC One trailer here.
Notes to Editors
- John Bridcut previously produced A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales for BBC One in 2012, as well as The Prince and the Composer (BBC Two and Four, 2011), Charles at 60: The Passionate Prince (BBC One, 2008), and Queen and Country, BBC One’s four-part series to mark the Golden Jubilee in 2002.
- It is a Crux production for BBC One, and was commissioned by Maxine Watson, BBC Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, and Charlotte Moore, Controller of TV Channels.
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