![]() It unspools at the outset of the Wars of the Roses, in 1464, when the Lancaster and York families were plunged into a royal blood feud after Edward IV broke with tradition and married for love, making commoner Elizabeth Woodville, played by Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson, his White Queen. "The BBC cut doesn't."īased on Philippa Gregory's best-selling novels, the show catches the British throne in a time of chaos. "The Starz cut contains breasts and buttocks," he says, without blushing. Indeed, the show is jam-packed with battles, betrayals, scheming dukes, and pay-cable nudity. "It's a bit Downton Abbey–meets– Game of Thrones," he says. Irons had ample occasion to consider the British monarchy at its noblest and its most venal during the 120 days he spent playing King Edward IV in The White Queen, a BBC co-production premiering August 10 on Starz. "But the rest of them? The Duke of Cornwall or Norfolk, you know, who doesn't work, maybe does a very little bit of charity but has a vast inherited fortune and land that was all accumulated because of the feudal system?" he says, smiling crookedly. "I like the queen I like the princes," he says, noting that they're good for public morale. Still, there are limits to his aristocratic affections. ![]() And why not? The 27-year-old sometime Burberry model and onetime paramour of fashionable young actress Emily Browning is legitimate British film royalty-the son of actors Sinéad Cusack and Jeremy Irons. ![]() "I like the monarchy," says Max Irons, an implausibly handsome composition of black cashmere, tousled hair, and cheekbones arranged regally on a banquette in the café of the downtown New York hotel where he's staying. ![]()
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