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The royal home movie that's STILL a drama 51 years later, says RICHARD KAY


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On a Saturday evening in June 1969, almost every TV in the land tuned in to watch a BBC documentary that was simply titled Royal Family.
And for an enthralling 110 minutes, with a two-minute interval, the nation was spell-bound. For a generation brought up to view the Queen and her family as remote figures, what unfolded was nothing short of a sensation.
The royals were shown as a real family, eating, chatting and laughing, while dispelling some of the myths that had grown around them.
Viewers saw the Queen in a village store buying an ice cream for five-year-old Prince Edward and handing over a half crown 12 and a half pence in payment. So much for a monarch reputed not to carry money. ....

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