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The Lion in Winter is a 2003 made-for-television remake of the 1968 film.

A television production of The Lion in Winter was first shown on 26 December 2003 in the U.K.. It starred Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close, and was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.

Andrew Howard, John Light, and Rafe Spall played the warring brothers. Jonathan Rhys Meyers played the king of France and Yuliya Vysotskaya, his sister and Henry's mistress, Princess Alais.

Cast

• Patrick Stewart as King Henry II
• Glenn Close as Queen Eleanor
• Andrew Howard as Richard the Lionheart
• John Light as Geoffrey
• Rafe Spall as John
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Philip II
• Yuliya Vysotskaya as Alais
• Clive Wood as Captain William Marshall

Goofs

• Continuity: When Richard holds the knife out to Eleanor in the dungeon, the knife reverses orientation and his grip on the handle changes between shots.

External links

• The Lion in Winter at IMDb

• American television films
• LGBT-related television programs
• Period television series
• Television programs based on plays
• 2003 television films