Charles II: The Power and The Passion

Charles II The Power and the Passion is a British television film in four episodes, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the AampE Network in the United States. It was produced by Kate Harwood, directed by Joe Wright and written by awardwinning screenwriter Adrian Hodges, whose credits include David Copperfield and The Lost World.

The film dramatizes both Charless laziness and frivolous diversion, leaving political issues to his chancellor Sir Edward Hyde, but becoming increasingly irritated by the paternalistic way which Hyde behaves towards him. Dismissing Hyde, he takes the reins of power himself, determined that his brother should succeed him in the event of him not having any legitimate children despite opposition to Jamess Catholicism, and that Royal Power not be challenged by Parliament.The production won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Serial in 2004 it was also nominated for a minor Emmy see the Internet Movie Databases entry. ........

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