Captain Mainwaring
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We know that both Mr. Rochester and Captain Mainwaring are possibly based, to some extent, on Edward IV’s life and family. What about Hi-de-hi? I ask because one episode of this 1980s comedy featured TED Bovis (Paul Shane) seeking to become engaged to a camper with “my late mother’s ring”, only for Spike Dixon (Jeffrey…
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So if Edward IV ….
“Tudor” propaganda, ballads, Brat Farrar, Captain Mainwaring, Edward IV, Edward Rochester, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, Henry VII, Huckleberry Hound, Josephine Tey, Kenneth Williams, Manuel, marriage, Oh my darling Clementine, Portuguese marriage plans, Rambling Syd Rumpo, Round the Horne… is either Mr. Rochester or Captain Mainwaring and other characters have been identified, is Henry VII represented in popular culture, other than here? You may recall that he promised to marry Elizabeth of York, OR one of her sisters if she was already taken, which is more about becoming Edward IV’s posthumous son-in-law than is…
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… Edward IV is either Mr. Rochester or Captain Mainwaring, which other fictional character may be based on one of his contemporaries? John, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, posthumously Edward’s father-in-law, who was identified after the battle of Castillon by the gap between his teeth might be Terry-Thomas? Domenico Mancini, a foreign visitor who barely understood…
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