James Wilby

Of course, this period late in the 1930s also inspired the beloved Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, in which King George VI was played by Colin Firth, Queen Elizabeth by Helena Bonham Carter, speech therapist Lionel Logue by Geoffrey Rush, and King Edward VIII by Guy Pearce.

Less well-known is the way it featured in the 2002 British miniseries Bertie and Elizabeth, in which Elizabeth is played by Juliet Aubrey and George VI by James Wilby.

This series may also be of interest for fans of royal costume dramas because it was the first time in which Dame Eileen Atkins played Elizabeth's mother-in-law, Queen Mary, a role she would subsequently reprise for Netflix's The Crown.

And those who remember him as Robert Dudley in Elizabeth R. and Prince Albert in Edward VII will be delighted to see Robert Hardy return to play President Roosevelt.