alexandra dowling played the queen in the musketeers bbc.
who plays the queen in the musketeers bbc?
alexandra dowling
the musketeers is a bbc period action drama programme based on the characters from alexandre dumas's novel "the three musketeers" and co-produced by bbc america and bbc worldwide. the first episode was shown on bbc one on 19 january 2014. it stars tom burke as athos, santiago cabrera as aramis, howard charles as porthos, luke pasqualino as d'artagnan, with tamla kari as constance, maimie mccoy as milady de winter, ryan gage as king louis xiii and alexandra dowling as queen anne. it also features peter capaldi as cardinal richelieu in the first series and marc warren as comte de rochefort in the second series, with rupert everett as the marquis de feron for the final series.
the musketeers
unit for himself. so as not to offend the king with a perceived sense of self-importance, richelieu did not name them garde du corps like the king's personal guards but rather musketeers after the kings' junior guard cavalry. this was the start of a bitter rivalry between the two corps of musketeers. at the cardinal's death in 1642, the company passed to his successor cardinal mazarin. at mazarin's death in 1661, the cardinal's musketeers passed to louis xiv to the disgust of both the king's musketeers and the cardinal's musketeers. the musketeers were subsequently reorganized as a guard cavalry regiment of two companies. the king's musketeers became the first company, popularly known as "grey musketeers" ("mousquetaires gris"), while the cardinal's musketeers became the second company, known as "black musketeers" ("mousquetaires noirs") for riding grey and black horses, respectively. from their establishment, the musketeers wore blue cloak-like cassocks, lined with red and edged with silver embroidery. from 1688, the cassocks were replaced by smaller "soubrevestes" or sleeveless coats in the same colours. in the early decades of the corps, the musketeers had worn civilian dress under their cassocks, according to personal taste and means, but in 1677 a scarlet uniform was adopted.
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