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Blackadder :: The Queen of Spain's Beard (01x04)
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| Title: | The Queen of Spain's Beard |
| Episode #: | 01x04 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday July 06th, 1983 |
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For the sake of diplomacy, the King must have a royal wedding between one of his sons and the Spanish Infanta. The trouble is that Henry is already engaged to seven princesses (and one prince); so they must rely on Edmund to marry her. Edmund is more than eager . . . that is, until he sees her!
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| •Rowan Atkinson | played | Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh / Lord Edmund Blackadder / Edmund Blackadder, Esq. / Captain Edmund Blackadder | | •Tony Robinson | played | Baldrick, son of Robin the Dung Gatherer / Baldrick / S. Baldrick / Private S. Baldrick | | •Tim McInnerny | played | Lord Percy Percy, Duke of Northumberland / Lord Percy Percy, heir to the Duchy of Northumberland / Captain Kevin Darling | | •Brian Blessed | played | King Richard IV of England | | •Robert East | played | Harry, Prince of Wales | | •Elspet Gray | played | Queen Gertrude of Flanders | | •Patrick Allen (1) | played | Narrator (uncredited) |
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Miriam Margoyles (Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain) would later play Lady Whiteadder, Lord Edmund Blackadder's aunt, in the Blackadder II episode "Beer" and Queen Victoria in Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
| Jim Broadbent (Don Speekinglash) would later play Prince Albert in Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
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Priest: Are you Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh?
Prince Edmund: No, I'm a bowl of soup!
| Messenger: My Lord, news: the Swiss have invaded France.
Richard IV: Excellent! (to one of his men) Wessex, while they're away, take ten thousand troops and pillage Geneva.
Chiswick: But the Swiss are our allies, my Lord.
Richard IV: Oh yes . . . well, er, get them to dress up as Germans, will you? Um, Chiswick, remind me to send flowers to the King of France in sympathy for the death of his son.
Chiswick: The one you had murdered, my Lord?
Richard IV: Yes, that's the fellow.
| Princess Infanta: Tu nariz es más pequeña que esperé.
Don Speekingleesh: Your nose is smaller than I expected.
Prince Edmund: I have suffered no similar disappointment.
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There are numerous references to the famously homosexual Earl of Doncaster. However, this title did not exist until 1663.
| Various princesses are mentioned as being engaged to Prince Harry. Many of the countries referred to did not exist in the 15th Century.
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