The Prisoner of Windsor

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At first, I found this hard to believe. I mean, if you look at the scenes of Hogwarts Great Lake, you’d never believe that it was filmed in Surrey near London. But it’s otherwise extraordinarily funny, on an incredibly layered level, and not just with the shoutouts to The Prisoner of Zenda and other popular culture (I gave up trying to figure out which pop-culture icons in the narration were real-world and which were made up for the story). At one point, the King of Ruritania, who makes his living as a celebrity impersonator, is impersonating the Prime Minister, well enough to be the Prime Minister, which inflames a mob that hates the Prime Minister. To save his and the Prime Minister’s wife’s life, he impersonates a celebrity impersonator impersonating the Prime Minister on top of being a celebrity impersonator impersonating the Prime Minister (this is not a spoiler, as it drastically under-explains what’s actually going on in that scene). Also, you’ll find a 100-foot Totem Pole was a gift from the Canadian people to Queen Elizabeth II in 1958. It was gifted to mark 100 years of British Colombia started under Queen Victoria. There is one foot for every year and it weighs a whopping 12 tonnes. This great royal lake had its humble beginning as a small stream in the 17th-century and it’s thought that it got its name from the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I. If you were chasing Harry Potter filming locations, then you couldn’t be in a better place to find them!

It’s now one of the most popular attractions in the Great Windsor Park and if you visit in autumn or winter the waterfall will be spectacular with the rainfall! In summer, the cascade often stops due to warm weather. A superb thirty second epilogue shows us what we have missed through so much of the previous couple of hours during which, despite showing odd flashes of the subversion that made the George Dubya Trilogy such a delight, laughs are few and far between.This waterfall was part of the original construction which began in 1752 but it was later destroyed by a great storm that emptied the lake in 1768. It was then remade later under George III. Steyn hosts The Mark Steyn Show, which airs every evening Monday to Thursday. He also presents Steyn's Song of the Week every Sunday afternoon on Serenade Radio. In New York he can be heard with his longtime EIB comrade, Bo Snerdley, every Tuesday on 77 WABC. After having a jolly good titter at the Machiavellian Miss Middleton in Princess in Waiting as part of Hampstead Theatre’s Heat&Light Routes last month, I was looking forward to another fun and fluffy satirical response to the Royal Wedding in Justin Butcher’s The Prisoner of Windsor. Steyn has a great handle on the adventure style of the late nineteenth century—and in the form of people like Anthony Hope and Alexander Dumas, who knew how to make their wordy texts both compelling and fast-moving despite the wordiness. Updating such a style for modern readers is very difficult to do, but also very rewarding... At one point, the King of Ruritania, who makes his living as a celebrity impersonator, is impersonating the Prime Minister well enough to be the Prime Minister, which inflames a mob that hates the Prime Minister. To save his and the Prime Minister's wife's life, he impersonates a celebrity impersonator impersonating the Prime Minister on top of being a celebrity impersonator impersonating the Prime Minister (this is not a spoiler, as it drastically under-explains what's actually going on in that scene).

But, because of the pesky Highland midge, the close-up footage of these Dementor’s kiss scenes was filmed at Virginia Water Lake. Then, you can make your way around to the Cascade and the Roman Ruins as nearly all of the scenes were filmed around here.

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Once delivered to London, officer Warrington didn’t get the fanfare and celebration he’d hoped for. In fact, the ruins stood in the British Museum for some time but no one knew what to do with them! Meanwhile, in tonight's episode of The Prisoner of Windsor, Rudy Elphberg's nemesis explains to him why lookalikes are so passé: Despite the occasional laboured scene, the production was pacey and energetic, with regular smiles and a titter or two coming from the audience.