RTVE returns to great historical fictions with 'Ena'

The TV kite, App Zone and its own RTVE They produce 'Ena', a six-episode historical fiction executive produced by Javier Olivares based on Queen Victoria Eugenia.

RTVE filming has started This one, a series based on the life of Victoria Eugenia de Battenberg, queen of Spain by her marriage to Alfonso XIII. The fiction of six chapters It will take shape entirely in natural exteriors and interiors, among which the Royal Palace of Madrid, the La Granja Palace (Segovia), the Santoña Palace (Madrid), the Fernán Núñez Palace (Madrid) and the Magdalena Palace (Santander) stand out, built in 1911 by the City Council as a tribute to the monarchs and where Victoria Eugenia spent a good part of her summers in Spain, accompanied by the Royal Family. The series will end filming at end of december, which allows us to verify the ambition of this commitment by Spanish public radio and television.

Based on the novel of the same name by the writer Pilar Eyre, This one has Javier Olivares as plot manager, who has been in charge of enormously successful series such as The Ministry of Time e Isabel: “This one "It is the portrait of historical moments that seem distant but are not so far away, because without them we would not understand the times we live in now," he also points out. showrunner of the series, who emphasizes that Victoria Eugenia “fought to be happy in a bitter time, in which she witnessed two world wars, a civil war and a great pandemic, the tortuously called Spanish flu.”

In addition to Olivares, the script is written by Isa Sánchez, Daniel Corpas and Pablo Lara Toledo. The series will be directed entirely by women: Anaïs Pareto, director of the series as a whole, in addition to four chapters, and Estel Diaz, who will direct two chapters. It has also been confirmed to Juan Carlos Franco and Carlos de Miguel as responsible for the photography direction; a Laura Montesinos and Josu Martínez in front of the mounting; a Ivan Nieto as boss of donido, already Elamedia Alive as a company focused on VFX.

Cast and synopsis

The Spanish actress of Anglo-Danish descent Kimberly Tell will play Victoria Eugenia and Joan Amargós will be Alfonso XIII. For her part, Elvira Mínguez will play María Cristina, the mother of Alfonso XIII. Completing the cast are Lucía Guerrero (Beatriz de Sajonia), Raul Mérida (Alfonso de Orleans), Juan Gea (Count of Romanones), María Morales (Duchess of Victoria), Pedro Mari Sánchez (Marquis of Villalobar), Luisa Gavasa (Eugenia de Montijo) and Joaquín Notario (Marquis of Viana).

Mariano Peña will play Miguel Primo de Rivera; Jaume Madaula to Mateo Morral, author of the attack committed at the royal wedding; Tomás del Estal will be Torres Mendoza and Ángel Ruiz will give life to García Lorca again, a character he already played in The Ministry of Time, among others.

This is the synopsis from the next RTVE series: “This one It is the story of a queen and also of a woman. From a young English woman who had never dreamed of being queen of Spain. Alfonso On the trip, he left behind his family, his customs, his culture and had to renounce his religion to live in a strange land, where the first thing he suffered was an attack on the same day of his wedding, during the wedding parade on Calle Mayor, after getting married in the Jerónimos Church, and which caused dozens of victims.

"She never felt accepted or loved, but she always fought to achieve both. Modern in a traditional environment, she was an icon of fashion and the liberation of feminine customs. Although in Spain she is better known as Victoria Eugenia, in the British Royal Family and in her circle of friends they always affectionately called her Ena, a tribute to her birth in Scottish lands, where she spent her childhood."